Ahmad Fawad Arsala

This Time Is Different: Iranian Protesters Finally Have Power on Their Side

For decades, Iranian protesters have risen up knowing one bitter truth: no matter how brave, how widespread, or how justified…

1 week ago

Why the Mullahs Can Be Toppled Without Occupying Iran

Iran has reached a point where protest alone may no longer be sufficient to dismantle the Islamic Republic’s entrenched machinery…

2 weeks ago

From Terror Provocation to Nuclear Panic: What Pakistan’s Trump Gratitude Really Confesses

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s repeated, almost theatrical gratitude toward Donald Trump for “resolving” the recent India–Pakistan conflict is not…

4 weeks ago

Diplomatic Gains and Strategic Signaling: Afghanistan’s Evolving Approach to Pakistan

Afghanistan’s recent water-resources decisions, including the recent in-principle approval of a major water transfer scheme, must be evaluated in the…

1 month ago

Trump’s Post-Ukraine Playbook: Why the Real Target Is Iran

When Donald Trump re-entered the White House, much of the world braced for unpredictability. Yet beneath the theatrics, bluster, and…

2 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.…

2 months ago

Washington’s New Chessboard: How President Trump and Pakistan’s Generals Are Rewriting the Great Game

Washington’s New Chessboard: How President Trump and Pakistan’s Generals Are Rewriting the Great Game   As the Trump administration returns…

3 months ago

Ashraf Ghani Went to GHQ, The Taliban Made GHQ Come to the Table

When history looks back at Afghanistan’s recent decades of leadership, one image will forever symbolize Ashraf Ghani’s legacy: a sitting…

3 months ago

Pakistan’s Hypocrisy on the Taliban: A State Built on Contradictions

Pakistan’s hypocrisy on the Taliban is not new, it is the continuation of a dangerous pattern that dates back to…

4 months ago

General Munir’s Pakistan: Nuclear Blackmail and the Business of Chaos

Pakistan’s generals have long thrived on war, chaos, and duplicity, but under General Asim Munir, the mask has slipped completely.…

5 months ago