Ahmad Fawad Arsala

The backlash against Aisha Wahab’s August 2026 remarks reveals less about her position and more about a persistent analytical failure in how Afghanistan is discussed in Western and diaspora circles. Her statement has been hastily…

In recent months, and particularly in recent days, three distinct approaches to political change in Afghanistan have emerged. They represent three fundamentally different answers to the same question: how can Afghanistan move beyond the…

In the dislocation that followed August 2021, Afghanistan’s exiled elite faced a defining question: how to serve a country they could no longer physically inhabit. The answers have varied, but few contrasts are as stark, or as…

For decades, Pakistan has positioned itself as a moral commentator on regional conflicts. It has lectured India on Kashmir, condemned human rights abuses across the Line of Control, demanded international investigations, and insisted that…

Pakistan’s Crypto Diplomacy and the Anatomy of a Failing State The recent revelations linking Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency windfall to Pakistani networks are no longer speculative. They are anchored in converging…

There is a difference between political reflection and political evasion. The latest statement by Ashraf Ghani falls decisively into the latter category, and this time the contradictions are no longer subtle. They are glaring. At a…

Pakistan is no longer merely a troubled state. It has crossed into something far more dangerous: a systemic exporter of instability whose internal collapse is now inseparable from its external aggression. Nowhere is this more visible than…

By any immediate metric, the outcome of the recent U.S.–Iran confrontation may appear ambiguous. There was no formal surrender, no occupation, no televised collapse of the regime. That superficial reading is precisely what obscures the…

In the closing weeks of a volatile and dangerous confrontation between the #UnitedStates and #Iran, an unexpected diplomatic actor has emerged with tangible results: #Qatar. Quietly, methodically, and without theatrical posturing, Qatari…

If there is a single document that reveals Pakistan’s true position in the United States-Iran conflict, it is the Transit of Goods Order, May 2026. Introduced in the midst of a fragile ceasefire, and marketed as a framework for regional…