Mecca Pact and Pakistan’s New Security Role
The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement provides a glimpse of a possible new security arrangement in a region long marked by conflict, mistrust and competing alliances. The Mecca Agreement…
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75 years of Pak China Everlasting Friendship
By: Arshad Khan The 75 years of everlasting friendship and diplomatic relationship between Pakistan and China has continued to grow stronger with the passage…
The PIMS Tragedy: A Trial of the State’s Moral Obligation Within the House of Healing
There are calamities which refuse to remain mere calamities. They become, rather, revelatory moments in which the concealed anatomy of an entire system is…
“TALLY-HU!” — THERE HE IS! ABUL QASIM — IMRAN KHAN
■ A LOVE LETTER TO THOSE WHO NEVER STOPPED WAITING ■ In my Aerie — the Eagle’s Nest — time never sleeps, and neither…
”SHADOW-PUPPETS” IN THE DARK-Oligarchic Influence and the Light That Ends Them
From the high vantage of my ‘Aerie’—the Eagle’s Nest, perched atop the F-10 Markaz plaza—Islamabad looked like a world preparing to submerge. A heavy,…
THEIR FIRST HOME WAS A BURNING ROOM
At 6:45 yesterday morning, sixteen newborns lay inside the nursery of PIMS Hospital in Islamabad. They could not walk, cry for help or escape.…
Reimagining Pakistan’s Map: New Provinces, Better Governance or a New Political Fault Line?
By Anwar Ullah Pakistan’s debate over the creation of new provinces has entered a more consequential phase. What was once largely an electoral slogan…
Tragedy at PIMS: A Wake-Up Call for Hospital Safety in Pakistan
The horrific fire that engulfed the nursery ward of the Mother and Child Health center at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, claiming the…
UTOPIA — WHERE DO WE GO TO FIND ONE, OR WHO WILL STEP OUT TO BUILD ONE?
“Bacha! I have returned from the future.” I looked up from my writing table. BāBā-Tāl [the Bell-man] was standing before me. For three days…
Reviving the Intellect: How the University of Gujrat’s Seerah Exhibition Reshapes Higher Education
In the relentless march of the twenty-first century, modern academia often risks losing its spiritual compass, reducing institutions of higher learning to sterile factories…
THE ALGORITHM DOESN’T KNOW THE RULES OF WAR
By Shahzad Ali Over a disputed boundary, a drone scans for a person carrying something that could be a weapon. No soldier decides whether…
A New Digital Horizon — Google’s Arrival and the Promise for Pakistan’s Youth
The official inauguration of Google’s first permanent office in Islamabad marks a defining watershed moment in the nation’s technological evolution. In a country where…
Kaspersky: How an ecosystem mindset builds unbreakable supply chains
By Sergey Soldatov, Head of Security Operations Center at Kaspersky. Today, a business functions as a complex ecosystem where each participant influences the overall…
PRESIDENTIAL MODEL AND THE RASHIDUN LEGACY — A CLOSER ALIGNMENT THAN PARLIAMENTARY POLITICS
Why a strong, singular executive—constrained by consultation, higher law and institutional checks—may offer a closer structural affinity to the early Islamic model than parliamentary…
We knew the water was coming
A flood is often described as an act of nature. The water rises, roads disappear, houses collapse and governments rush to distribute relief. Then…
Command, Credibility and Lessons from the May 2025 Conflict
By: Izmi Herlani Modern air warfare is not won by aircraft alone. It is won by the quality of the people who command them,…
THE PILOT WHO WOULD NOT SURRENDER THE SKY
By: Izmi Herlani There are moments in aviation history when rank becomes irrelevant, age loses meaning and one decision outweighs an entire lifetime. For…