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By Professor Dr. Sheikh Akram Ali In the history of Bangladesh, a “political miracle” is often used to describe the rise of a single family that, as it is sometimes portrayed, was destined by fate to govern the country with immense popularity at different moments. The founder of this family, Major Ziaur Rahman, was a young officer in the East Bengal Regiment of the Pakistan Army who was not widely known in society. However, he suddenly emerged on the political horizon of East Pakistan, a stage for which he was not initially prepared. Undoubtedly, the rise of Ziaur Rahman is…
In much of the contemporary media ecosystem across Israel and India, President Donald Trump’s repeated remarks about expanding the Abraham Accords have been treated less as a conventional policy signal and more as a kind of political theatre. The commentary surrounding it often carries an undertone of performance in itself: clipped reactions, instant interpretations, and an editorial instinct to turn diplomatic phrasing into either triumphal narrative or strategic alarm. What is lost in this rapid cycle of interpretation is the slower, more consequential question of what such statements actually mean within the architecture of Middle Eastern diplomacy. The unease this…
By S.M. Inam The federal government’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2026–27 arrives in a familiar economic atmosphere, yet one that feels increasingly constrained in its margins for manoeuvre. On paper, it presents the language of cautious optimism: a projected growth rate of 4.1 per cent, inflation expected to average 8.4 per cent, and a total outlay of 17.1 trillion rupees. Taken together, these figures suggest an economy attempting to stabilise itself without fully resolving the deeper structural tensions that continue to define its fiscal landscape. Budgets are often described as moral documents disguised as accounting exercises. In this case,…
By Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal In the turbulent theatre of modern diplomacy, nations are often compelled to choose between expediency and principle. Some surrender their convictions at the altar of temporary political advantage, while others, though tested by storms and isolation, remain steadfast to the moral compass that defines their national soul. Pakistan belongs to the latter category. Despite persistent speculation and recurring whispers in diplomatic corridors, Pakistan is neither likely nor morally prepared to become part of the Abraham Accords. The reasons are neither emotional nor reactionary. They are rooted in history, faith, international law, and the collective conscience of…
By Dr. Zafar Iqbal In March 2026, the situation was such that a deep silence had enveloped the Muslim world. This silence was used to present the Abraham Accords — the central mantra of the joint US-Israeli campaign in the Middle East — as something sacred, concealing deeply questionable objectives behind a web of deception. By that point, the most brutal and savage massacre of Palestinians had already continued for two and a half years. At the time, we wrote a piece titled “The Abraham Accords and the Deafening Silence.” Today, that very phrase — “deafening silence” — has become a…
By Khpalwak Mohmand The latest notification issued by the education department under the title “Experience No. 421” has once again exposed a troubling disconnect between policy-making and the everyday realities faced by ordinary citizens. Every year, as temperatures rise across Pakistan, authorities announce summer vacations with the promise of protecting students and teachers from dangerous weather conditions. Yet the same authorities quietly reopen schools under different labels such as “summer camps”, effectively forcing attendance despite officially declared holidays. What is presented as a welfare measure quickly turns into an exercise in bureaucratic contradiction, leaving parents, students and teachers frustrated and…
The latest announcement of more than seven billion dollars in agreements between Pakistan and China reads, on the surface, like another milestone in one of Asia’s most durable strategic partnerships. Yet as ever with this relationship, the significance lies less in the scale of the headline figure and more in the long, uneven distance between pledged capital and projects that actually take root in the ground. The deals, unveiled at a business-to-business investment conference in Hangzhou, reflect an ambitious attempt by Pakistan to reposition its economic relationship with China away from dependency on loans and infrastructure credit, and towards a…
By Dr Zawwar Hussain Water is often spoken of as a resource, but that word is too thin for what it actually represents. It is not simply something societies consume; it is the medium through which societies exist at all. Civilisations are shaped around it, economies are stabilised by it, and public health rises or falls depending on its purity. In the case of Pakistan, this reality is written into geography itself. The entire historical, cultural and agricultural life of the country is bound to the flows of the Indus River, a river system that has sustained human settlement for…