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...
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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...
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...
What It Means to Be a Feminist: A Feminism That Makes No Noise
Being a feminist today does not necessarily require wearing a slogan or joining a rally, even as those actions remain...
The Price of Apathy: Afghanistan’s Compounding Crisis
More than 50 percent of women-led civil society organizations have not received any new funding since last year, and due...
Karzai’s Message Amid Renewed Pakistan-Afghanistan Tensions
Relations between Kabul and Islamabad continue to be shaped by mutual accusations, security concerns, and an increasingly dangerous cycle of...
“Global Terrorism Olympics: Shehbaz Sharif Competes Wearing a ‘Beggar’ Helmet at the UN”
By A. Shafaq In the ever‑expanding sport of South Asian political theatrics, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has entered the...
