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By Amjad Qaimkhani UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan issued a stern warning to the international community over the growing threat posed by terrorist groups operating from Afghan soil, highlighting concerns that their access to illegal weapons could destabilize the wider region. Speaking at the United Nations Security Council, Pakistan’s permanent representative, Asim Iftikhar Ahmed, said that these organizations were not only openly operating from Afghanistan but were also receiving both financial and operational support, allowing them to carry out destructive activities far beyond their immediate borders. Ahmed expressed deep alarm over reports that advanced weaponry and stockpiles of munitions were being amassed…

By Abdul Rehman Patel “When the first window breaks and no one repairs it — the entire building eventually collapses.” Civilizations do not crumble overnight. They decay quietly, one ignored fracture at a time. The philosopher Michael Zapato once demonstrated this truth through an experiment that would become a metaphor for moral and political decline. He parked two identical old cars in two very different places: one in The Bronx — a rough, crime-prone district of New York — and the other in Palo Alto, an affluent, orderly city in California. Within a day, the car in The Bronx was…

By Atiq Raja In the endless conversation about success, productivity, and self-improvement, there’s a quiet truth often buried beneath the noise of motivational slogans and bullet-pointed to-do lists: success doesn’t come from ambition alone. It comes from structure. While most of us are conditioned to chase goals, to sprint towards a finish line that keeps moving, the people who sustain their achievements are those who design systems — invisible frameworks that make progress inevitable. A system is not a mystical concept or a corporate buzzword. It is the scaffolding that supports a person’s ambition, a collection of small, consistent actions…

By Syed Shamim Akhtar Pakistan stands on the edge of a constitutional turning point — one that could either strengthen the state’s institutional balance or plunge it into a new phase of uncertainty. The federal cabinet’s approval of the 27th Constitutional Amendment and its referral to the Senate has ignited intense political and legal debate across the country. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, presiding via video link from Azerbaijan, hailed the move as a step toward “stability and continuity,” yet for many, it marks the start of an anxious reckoning with the shape of Pakistan’s governance itself. This proposed amendment, now…

By Uzma Ehtasham A new and troubling front has opened in long and bitter information wars. In recent days, a short, explosive video has spread like wildfire across Afghan and other regional social media networks. The clip, which claimed to show security forces desecrating a mosque and the Holy Qur’an, even bringing dogs into a place of worship, was designed to provoke horror and fury. Its circulation was swift, its emotional impact fierce — but it was built entirely on falsehood. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, backed by independent fact-checkers, has confirmed that the footage was artificially generated using AI…

The European Union’s new Security Strategy for 2026 may appear, on paper, as a blueprint for a more capable and secure Europe. In practice, however, it represents something far more perilous — a turning point that could push the continent deeper into confrontation and insecurity. This ambitious scheme is not about peace or collective safety. It is, rather, the codification of Europe’s gradual militarization under the pretext of “strategic autonomy” — an agenda that risks transforming Ukraine into a permanent frontline state and the rest of Europe into a tightly controlled military bloc. The European Commission’s insistence on building what…

In the bustling corridors of Istanbul last week, a carefully orchestrated diplomatic engagement between Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban ended, at least for now, with frustration and disillusionment. Pakistan’s foreign office has painted a picture of negotiations conducted in good faith, only to be met repeatedly with what it describes as evasive maneuvers, empty assurances, and a troubling lack of accountability from its counterparts in Kabul. The third round of talks, convened on 7 November under the auspices of Turkey and Qatar, had been framed by Islamabad as a crucial opportunity: a chance to convert verbal commitments into tangible, verifiable…

In a development that promises to reshape Pakistan’s legislative and judicial landscape, the federal cabinet on Saturday approved the 27th constitutional amendment, signaling Islamabad’s intent to resolve longstanding ambiguities in the country’s governance structures. The meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif via video link from Baku, underscored the administration’s continued commitment to institutional reform, even as the nation navigates a politically charged environment and heightened public scrutiny. Law Minister Azam Nazir Tarar, who briefed the cabinet on the amendment and presented its draft, emphasized the legal and democratic rationale behind the initiative. The cabinet’s decision to grant clause-by-clause approval…