Pakistan’s Water Diplomacy: Treaty Rules for India, Silence on Afghanistan’s Rivers
From the Indus Waters Treaty to Afghanistan’s rivers, Pakistan’s contradictory positions expose the political motivations behind its diplomatic campaign. By...
Sayed Alam Hashimi: Poetry Under Interrogation: Memory, Dissent, and the Suppression of the Word in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan
The Poet as a Political Problem: Documented Biography and the Construction of Dissent By Ivan Pozzoni What renders a poet...
Emergency Rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Security Measure or a New Chapter in Pakistan’s Political Crisis?
Imposing emergency rule on a province already scarred by decades of conflict amounted to another experiment in authoritarian governance. By...
Wasef Bakhtari: Poetry as a Territory That Cannot Be Conquered
The conquered city, the language that remains By Ivan Pozzoni The history of Wasef Bakhtari makes it possible to formulate...
Bakhtari Advocates for Afghan Women in Strasbourg
As international attention increasingly shifts away from Afghanistan, Manizha Bakhtari, Afghanistan's ambassador and permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna,...
IMF Talks Expose Pakistan’s Persistent Failure on Education, Healthcare and Governance
The Karachi talks are not only about macroeconomic aggregates. They are also a test of whether Pakistan can reform the...
From Bookshelves to Community: An Afghan Activist’s Mission in Vienna
"Many Afghans remain psychologically tied to Afghanistan long after migration." At the 13th From Kabul to Vienna integration festival held this July...
Two Fronts, One Doctrine: Pakistan’s Proxy Warfare from Kashmir to Afghanistan
Pakistan helped create the Afghan Taliban and supported the Haqqani Network, which US Admiral Michael Mullen told the Senate in...
The Writing That Survives Prison: Khalid Qaderi’s Writing of Resistance
The Word as a Seized Space By Ivan Pozzoni Khalid Qaderi’s writing emerges within a geography in which language is...
Civilians Bear the Cost as Pakistan’s Air Campaign Expands into Afghanistan
By Gaheez Salarzai The rubble of destroyed homes in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar and southern Helmand provinces has become the latest...