Opinion

Ghani’s Hollow Vision: Self-Praise, No Accountability, and Zero Solutions

Ashraf Ghani has resurfaced, and as always, he arrives armed with paragraphs of poetic abstractions, circular reasoning, and self-exonerating reflections.…

3 months ago

Pakistan’s Budget Prioritizes Guns Over Its People

One of the foundational lessons in introductory economics concerns the central problem of scarcity and the critical choice of “what…

3 months ago

Bangladesh at a Constitutional Crossroads

Bangladesh at a Constitutional Crossroads: Institutional Legacies and the Imperative for Reform Following the Hasina Conviction Abstract: The recent in absentia conviction of…

3 months ago

The Bipartisan Comfort with Islamophobia is a Threat to Us All

The election of Zohran Mamdani as the first Muslim mayor of New York City should have been a pure celebration…

3 months ago

Bangladesh’s Bhutto Moment: The Trial of Sheikh Hasina and echoes of Rawalpindi in Dhaka

  ‌By: Simantik Dowerah Source: firstpost.com Both Sheikh Hasina and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto trials is a sad reflection on power,…

3 months ago

World Bank Warns Pakistan’s Export Crisis is Symptom of Deeper Economic Malaise, Urges Urgent Reforms

 The World Bank has issued a stark warning to Pakistan, stating that the country's chronic export weakness is no longer…

3 months ago

The Unfinished War for Afghanistan’s Future

On this day, four years ago, the world I knew was erased. The Afghan Republic collapsed not with a negotiated…

3 months ago

Perfume, Politics, and Perfidy: The Scent of Shifting Alliances

Childhood memories have a strange way of resurfacing in the theater of global politics. I was reminded of a rhyme…

3 months ago

From War to Politics: The Paradox of Pragmatic Survival in Syria and the Isolation of Victory in Afghanistan

Both the Syrian and Afghan experiences emerged from prolonged and bloody conflicts, united by the common goal of liberation from…

3 months ago

The U.S.–India Defense Agreement, Indo–Afghan Convergence, and Gulf Influence

The U.S.–India Defense Agreement, Indo–Afghan Convergence, and Gulf Influence Engineering Regional Balances in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Afghanistan…

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