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By Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal From the earliest dawn of human society, conflict has been an inescapable feature of collective life. Long before states, borders or written laws, human groups clashed over territory, water, food and survival. Even these primitive confrontations were not entirely spontaneous; they involved anticipation, planning and strategy. Yet planning carried a fatal vulnerability. When intentions were revealed — through betrayal, careless speech or interception — the advantage vanished. To overcome this, secrecy gradually became a cardinal principle of warfare, and plans began to be concealed under symbols, signals and, later, carefully chosen names. Thus emerged the earliest…

By Imtiaz Hussain In the rural districts of Sindh, the persistence of so-called honor killings under the label of ‘Karo Kari’ continues to expose a deep fracture between law and lived reality. Despite legislative reform and public condemnation, human rights groups estimate that hundreds of people are killed each year, with many cases never entering official records. Fear, tribal pressure and the threat of retaliation combine to keep families silent, allowing a parallel system of violence to endure largely unchecked. Data compiled by the Sindh Police and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan suggests that districts such as Kashmore, Jacobabad,…

By Naveed Ali The enduring tension in the South China Sea has become less a distant geopolitical abstraction and more a central fault line in the global order. It is a dispute resists easy resolution not because of a lack of diplomatic frameworks but because of the sheer weight of competing interests layered upon a relatively confined stretch of water. What appears, at first glance, to be a contest over reefs and rocks is, in reality, a struggle over trade, energy, sovereignty and the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific. Geographically, the sea sits astride one of the world’s most…

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Reports suggesting that Iran has softened parts of its negotiating position in talks with the United States introduce a carefully calibrated note into an otherwise familiar pattern of tension, hesitation and intermittent diplomatic contact. According to claims published in the Wall Street Journal, Tehran has stepped back from earlier demands, including calls for an immediate lifting of certain restrictions, and has shown a degree of openness to continued engagement, possibly even in Pakistan, if Washington agrees. On the surface, this appears to be a modest procedural adjustment. In reality, it touches a much wider and more fragile diplomatic architecture that…

By Dr. Zawwar Hussain The intense heat being experienced in cities, streets, and homes today cannot be reduced to a matter of seasonal discomfort. To treat it as such would be a serious misreading of what is unfolding. What is being felt is increasingly understood by climate scientists as part of a broader global disturbance associated with a Super El Niño event, a phenomenon capable of pushing temperatures well beyond historical norms while simultaneously amplifying pressures on human health, economic systems, and ecological stability. El Niño events are not new, but their intensity and frequency are changing in ways that…

By Asghar Ali Mubarak There are moments in diplomacy when progress does not arrive as a grand agreement, but as a quiet, almost tentative step that prevents a deeper fall into conflict. The recent exchange between the United States and Iran, carried through Pakistan, belongs to that category. A written response from Washington to Tehran’s 14-point proposal has led to the release of Iranian prisoners and the return of a seized vessel and its crew. On the surface, these may appear procedural acts. In reality, they are signals — cautious, calculated and laden with meaning. At the center of this…

By Khpalwak Mohmand There are some incidents recorded in the pages of history that may seem absurd, but in fact they reflect a deep system of oppression and exploitation. Incidents such as the “imprisonment” of a tree and a door during the British colonial era are among them. These events not only expose the imperial mindset but also bring to light a distorted concept of justice in which power itself becomes the standard of right and wrong. While the soil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa holds within it countless stories of bravery and resistance, it also preserves some unusual historical markers that…

There is a peculiar, almost unbearable stillness that settles over a battlefield just before the storm breaks, or just before sanity arrives. That is the silence the world is holding its breath inside today. From the ornate halls of Tehran’s foreign ministry comes a sound rarely heard in the past six months: the quiet, deliberate squeak of a diplomatic shoe. Iran claims it has placed the ball in Washington’s court. But the question that hangs over the Persian Gulf, heavy as the summer humidity, is whether the Trump administration has the maturity, or even the will, to pick it up…