Taliban’s 2025 Crackdown: Afghan Women Face Escalating Rights Violations
By Kazim Jafari Rawadari’s Afghanistan Human Rights Situation Report 2025, released in March 2026, documents a sharp deterioration in civil and...
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Pakistan’s Intensifying Crackdown on Afghan Refugees
By Dawood Jabarkhail Peshawar - Pakistan’s latest wave of arrests targeting Afghan refugees reflects a deeper structural shift in the...
Forced Returns Deepen Afghan Refugee Crisis
Dawood Jabarkhail The scale of deportations is staggering, and the scenes along the Durand Line show it clearly. More than...
Pakistan’s War Economy: False Narratives and Failed Realities
By Fatima Chaudhary Pakistan recently hit the global headlines as an ammunition market, supplying its China-backed fighter jets to markets...
Pakistan’s Mask Comes Off
In August 2016, Shahbaz Sharif wrote on his X (former Twitter) that “one cannot imagine anyone stooping as low as...
Inside Pakistan’s Culture of Illicit Arms and Impunity
By Fatima Chaudhary Pakistan’s illicit gun culture is not an accidental by‑product of instability; it is the outcome of decades...
Power Struggle and Political Rifts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
By Shinwari Khyber Pakhtunkhwa faces a deepening political confrontation between Chief Minister Muhammad Sohail Afridi and Governor Faisal Karim Kundi,...
Afghan Musician Farhad Darya: “Afghanistan’s History Is Mostly Lies”
By Kazim Jafari Farhad Darya is one of Afghanistan’s best-known musicians, whose songs have accompanied several generations through war, displacement, and...
Escalating Clashes Along the Durand Line Signal Deepening Crisis
By SS Ahmad Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan have flared again on the 5th of December in a dramatic exchange of...
The Afghan Opium Ban and Pakistan’s Growing Role in Narcotics Networks
By Rahmatullah Achakzai In August 2021, when the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the global community prepared for a resurgence...
