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4 more terrorists killed by security forces, death toll in Operation Shaaban reaches 83

Water: Not an Indian Ownership
 Asif Mahmood In my previous column, I discussed why it is geographically inaccurate to describe India as the upper riparian state for every river. In the case of several major rivers, India itself is a middle riparian state when viewed in relatio…
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…
Asif Mahmood The recent high-level meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff signifies a pivotal moment in the bilateral relationship between the United States and Pakistan. Occurring in the immediate aftermath of t…
Israel’s Balochistan Agenda
Israel's attack on Iran cannot be viewed in isolation; it is part of a larger pattern of aggression that includes India's actions against Pakistan. One could even refer to it as Netanyahu's "Operation Sindoor." Hindutva and Zionism have allied to launch a…
How Western Media Shapes the Israel-Iran Narrative
Western media is buzzing about Tehran being evacuated, yet somehow neglects to mention that Tel Aviv is also packing its bags. You’d think that’s a pretty big story, but apparently, the evacuation fairy only sprinkles her magic dust over one city. They cl…
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…
Asif Mahmood The recent high-level meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff signifies a pivotal moment in the bilateral relationship between the United States and Pakistan. Occurring in the immediate aftermath of t…
Israel’s Balochistan Agenda
Israel's attack on Iran cannot be viewed in isolation; it is part of a larger pattern of aggression that includes India's actions against Pakistan. One could even refer to it as Netanyahu's "Operation Sindoor." Hindutva and Zionism have allied to launch a…

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