Pakistan’s New Playbook: Pitting Afghan Groups Against One Another
Pakistan military has once again decided to use proxy warfare through new actors. By A. Shafaq The Durand Line frontier...
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Afghan Refugees in Pakistan Face Night Raids and Fear‑Driven Survival
Pakistan’s approach has grown even more confrontational, marked by military airstrikes inside Afghanistan that killed civilians and sparked widespread outrage...
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...
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...
