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Pakistan-Saudi Arabia strategic mutual defense agreement (SMDA)
The Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement (SMDA) signed between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on 18 September 2025 represents…
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Ambassador (Retd) G.R. Baluch
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Why Palestine and Kashmir cannot rely on hollow dialogues
History does not flatter the weak. It tells us repeatedly that the path to freedom is carved by resistance, not by…
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Imported security and its fragile promise
The Doha strike shows that U.S. guarantees favor Israel, not Arab sovereignty. The recent Israeli strike on Hamas…
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The US's slipping soft power under Trump: An untended consequence of "America First"
When Harvard professor Joseph S. Nye Jr. first introduced the concept of soft power in his seminal 1990 book Bound to…
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A multi-currency global financial architecture is sine qua non for a just multipolar world order
The global financial order, long dominated by the US dollar, is undergoing a slow yet decisive shift. The greenback's…
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Pakistan-China strategic synergy for peace and prosperity in Afghanistan
The trilateral foreign ministers' meeting in Kabul 20-21 August 2925 has signaled the renewal of an old truth in South…
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Pakistan's hybrid trap - managed stability and hollowed democracy
The political landscape of Pakistan has once again been consumed by crisis, with the controversial 2024 general…
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Pakistan's plastic peril: From womb to waves, it's time to act
In Pakistan, the plastic menace is no longer merely an urban nuisance-it is a national catastrophe with far-reaching…
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The moral unravelling of the State of Israel
Israel was carved out of the moral conscience of the world. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, the state of Israel was…
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Beyond the battlefield: The war of narratives and the Kashmir conflict
In today's interconnected information era, modern conflicts are no longer confined to physical battlefields. Wars are…
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Aligning with Trump.2's transactional world order: Pakistan's strategic reset
Trump.2.0 presidency in a rather short span of six months has defied the age old diplomatic doctrines, altered the long…
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The death of globalization: Can China re-globalize the world order?
Globalization, as it unfolded in the late 20th century, was not an organic global consensus-it was an American…
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Class room the vital strategic space of the republic
In the turbulence of South Asia's geopolitical rivalries, economic anxieties, and security dilemmas, one quiet yet…
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Echoes of Auschwitz in Gaza: A new chapter in human shame
The ruins of Gaza are not just physical. They are moral. They are political. They are human. For months, the world has…
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Bricks, Brazil and beyond: Has BRICS reached a political plateau?
The BRICS summit recently held in Rio de Janeiro marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of a bloc that now includes 11…
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Bullets for bread - the ugly face of Israel's genocidal war in Gaza & the shadow of greater Israel
Gaza has transcended the metaphor of an "open-air prison." It is now a necropolis of international law, where Israel…
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Pakistan's diplomatic dexterity and strategic clarity in twin crises
In a region often defined by volatility, sudden escalations, and narrative warfare, Pakistan has recently demonstrated…
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Why the Islamic world stands divided as genocide unfolds in Gaza & war threatens Iran
The Muslim world, once united under the broad canopy of Islamic civilization-from the Maghreb to Bengal, from Andalusia…