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Ownership of Kashmir’s Natural Resources under International Law

Ownership of Kashmir’s Natural Resources under International Law
Asif Mahmood India’s systematic exploitation of natural resources in occupied Kashmir raises a fundamental question of international law. Who owns the resources of Kashmir? Does international law confer ownership rights upon an occupying power over the…
ITNE Wakes Up?
Asif Mahmood Justice, in this land, is never served hot. It comes cold, often too late — if it comes at all. For working journalists in the print media, this truth hits harder than most. While cameras flash and headlines blaze, the people who fill the …
A rogue order: The US-led West and the illusion of rules
By Sardar Khan Niazi The United States and its Western allies, while no longer deploying the old colonial language of civilizing missions, have devised new and equally insidious means of maintaining global hegemony. Beneath their invocation of a rules-…
SAARC deserves revival, not replacement
By Sardar Khan Niazi The leaders of South Asia stand at a crucial juncture. In a region home to nearly two billion people, where over half still struggle with poverty, the time has come to make a collective choice: to further fragment South Asia or to …
“Maryam’s Message, Media Team Magnifies”
By Sardar Khan Niazi When the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa recently expressed frustration with his media team, lamenting that they had failed to build a compelling narrative around his government’s performance, I couldn’t help but think of Punj…
Urban flooding: a crisis of neglect, not nature
By Sardar Khan Niazi Each monsoon season, the same distressing scenes replay across Pakistan’s major cities--Rawalpindi’s roads turn into torrents, Lahore’s underpasses flood within minutes, Karachi’s low-lying areas vanish beneath brown, disease-ridde…
The case for overhauling urban public transport in Pakistan
By Sardar Khan Niazi More than 75 million people live in Pakistan’s cities, a dynamic mosaic of cultural, social, and economic activity. Cities like Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, and Quetta are hubs of opportunity, but they are also scenes of d…
Asif Mahmood India and Israel—identical in both ideology and method—stand today as political pariahs, increasingly isolated on the global stage. While the international system remains too driven by interests to take definitive stances against these two…

“Pakistan demands climate fairness”

Yashma Gill’s dance with friends goes viral on social media

Federal Minister for Information hosts dinner for APNS
By Sardar Khan Niazi Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Atta Tarar hosted a dinner in honor of APNS. Federal Secretary Ambreen Jan, PIO Mubashir Hassan, APNS President Sarmad Ali and me, along with other officials, were present at the di…
ITNE Wakes Up?
Asif Mahmood Justice, in this land, is never served hot. It comes cold, often too late — if it comes at all. For working journalists in the print media, this truth hits harder than most. While cameras flash and headlines blaze, the people who fill the …
A rogue order: The US-led West and the illusion of rules
By Sardar Khan Niazi The United States and its Western allies, while no longer deploying the old colonial language of civilizing missions, have devised new and equally insidious means of maintaining global hegemony. Beneath their invocation of a rules-…
SAARC deserves revival, not replacement
By Sardar Khan Niazi The leaders of South Asia stand at a crucial juncture. In a region home to nearly two billion people, where over half still struggle with poverty, the time has come to make a collective choice: to further fragment South Asia or to …
“Maryam’s Message, Media Team Magnifies”
By Sardar Khan Niazi When the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa recently expressed frustration with his media team, lamenting that they had failed to build a compelling narrative around his government’s performance, I couldn’t help but think of Punj…
Urban flooding: a crisis of neglect, not nature
By Sardar Khan Niazi Each monsoon season, the same distressing scenes replay across Pakistan’s major cities--Rawalpindi’s roads turn into torrents, Lahore’s underpasses flood within minutes, Karachi’s low-lying areas vanish beneath brown, disease-ridde…
The case for overhauling urban public transport in Pakistan
By Sardar Khan Niazi More than 75 million people live in Pakistan’s cities, a dynamic mosaic of cultural, social, and economic activity. Cities like Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, and Quetta are hubs of opportunity, but they are also scenes of d…
Asif Mahmood India and Israel—identical in both ideology and method—stand today as political pariahs, increasingly isolated on the global stage. While the international system remains too driven by interests to take definitive stances against these two…

“Pakistan demands climate fairness”

Yashma Gill’s dance with friends goes viral on social media

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