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A Hero’s Resolve: Syrian-Australian Shopkeeper Who Stopped Bondi Gunman Hailed Nationwide
WELLINGTON: In the golden evening light of a Sydney summer, 44-year-old Ahmed Al-Ahmed stepped out for a simple ritual shared by millions: a coffee with a friend. The setting, the…
The West’s “Solutions”: A Brutal Calculus of Externalized Costs
What does it feel like to constantly wake to a world that has been quietly, ruthlessly, inverted? To feel the ground of your own reality—the principles you were raised on, the…
Proxy Warfare and Its Consequences: Lessons Learned
Proxy warfare, the deliberate cultivation of non-state insurgent actors as instruments of state policy, is neither legitimate nor sustainable. Pakistan’s experience in Afghanistan…
Extremism: The Enduring Pandemic of the Global Village
In our interconnected age, wars refuse to be confined to their geographic battlegrounds. Through the pervasive channels of social media and instant news, they infiltrate our living…
Between Tehran and the United Nations: Kabul Prioritizes National Interests Over External Agendas
The Taliban’s decision to abstain from the upcoming South Asian regional meeting in Iran, alongside the outcomes of recent United Nations sessions on Afghanistan, underscores a…
Australia to Toughen Gun Laws After Deadly Anti‑Semitic Attack at Bondi Beach
SYDNEY — Australian leaders have pledged to strengthen the nation’s gun laws following the deadliest mass shooting in nearly three decades: a terrorist attack targeting a Jewish…
Campaigning against humanitarian aid is injustice
Unfortunately, some people have launched a campaign this winter under the cover of “blankets,” calling for humanitarian aid to Afghanistan to be stopped on the grounds that the…
The Geopolitical and Strategic Implications of U.S. F-16 Sustainment for Pakistan
The U.S. State Department’s recent approval of a Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Pakistan, valued at approximately $686 million, for the sustainment and upgrade of its F-16 fighter…
Bangladesh’s Ideological Reversal: The BNP’s Bid for Hasina’s Liberal Image
The formal and decisive rupture of the decades-long alliance between the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the Jamaat-e-Islami marks a seismic shift in the nation’s politics,…
Afghanistan at the Doha Forum: Symbolic Presence and Regional-Gulf Dynamics
The participation of Afghanistan’s delegation, led by the current caretaker government (the Taliban), in the Doha Forum carries substantial political and diplomatic significance.…