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A shared river is not the private domain of the state that sits upstream. Control over headwaters brings responsibility to cooperate, not a carte blanche
September 8, 2026
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A shared river is not the private domain of the state that sits upstream. Control over headwaters brings responsibility to cooperate, not a carte blanche
The Taliban’s unrelenting campaign against Afghanistan’s Hazara and Shia communities highlights the violent, exclusionary core of its governance strategy. By systematically stripping these populations of
The recent high-level diplomatic exchange between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni underscores a significant moment in the trajectory of Pakistan–Italy
The convening of the sixty-third session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva from September 7 to October 7, 2026 marks a critical moment
The UNAMA report, released in September 2026, examines a wound that Afghanistan has never properly treated: the fate of the people who survived four decades
The recent declaration by the Afghanistan United Front (AUF) claiming 43 military operations across 14 provinces over a single month marks a critical escalation in
The Taliban regime’s ambassador sought to frame Pakistan’s security concerns as vague or pretextual. That framing collapses under the weight of repeated, independent documentation. United
Afghanistan’s mineral wealth, estimated near $1 trillion, has long been framed as a story about foreign powers circling a resource-rich, war-torn state. That framing misses
Pakistan and Kuwait have signed a new protocol expanding their military cooperation. Under the agreement, Pakistan will provide training, capacity building and border-management assistance to
Sadia Tasleem’s recent argument, framing the May 2025 escalation between India and Pakistan as proof that Pakistan’s nuclear deterrence failed, rests on a mistake so