Opinion

Ashraf Ghani Breaks Silence, Urges National Dialogue to Break Afghanistan’s Political Deadlock

KABUL— In a significant political statement, former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has broken a long period of public silence to call…

3 months ago

A Strategic Shift: The Pragmatic Recalibration of India-Afghanistan Relations

The relationship between India and Afghanistan is undergoing a radical transformation, serving as a compelling case study of how contradictory…

3 months ago

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…

4 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…

4 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…

4 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,…

4 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…

4 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…

4 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…

4 months ago