(By Khalid Masood) June 6, 1984, stands as one of the most harrowing and indelible stains in Sikh history—a day defined by profound betrayal and unmitigated state violence. On this solemn anniversary, freedom lovers and human rights defenders across the globe unite to remember the horrific bloodbath of June 1984, paying solemn tribute to the…
(By Khalid Masood) In the twilight of his tenure, the outgoing Indian Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi made a highly publicized and bizarre assertion: should “Operation Sindur 2” be initiated, Pakistan would have to decide whether it wishes to remain a “part of history or geography.” This he said during an address at the General…
(By Khalid Masood) Introduction On 4 June 2026, a three-member bench of Pakistan’s Supreme Court delivered the final act of judicial reckoning in the murder of Noor Mukadam, officially rejecting Zahir Jaffer‘s 47-page review petition and dismissing his arguments regarding mental health and the admissibility of digital video evidence. No legal avenue remains except a…
(By Quratulain Khalid) Introduction For Pakistan, water is not merely a resource; it is the bedrock of national survival. With over 90% of its agriculture dependent on the Indus River system, any upstream manipulation by India represents an existential threat to the country’s food security, economic stability, and social cohesion. While the 1960 Indus Waters…
(By Khalid Masood) Know the enemy and know yourself in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in…
(By Khalid Masood) May 30, 2026 — As the United States and Iran hover on the edge of either a lasting peace or a renewed explosion of violence, one country has placed itself at the center of the diplomatic whirlwind: Pakistan. Over the past ten days, Islamabad has executed a carefully choreographed, three-pronged diplomatic offensive—spanning…
(By Khalid Masood) India’s tendering of the Chenab–Beas Link Tunnel marks the first operational inter-basin diversion from a western river since the Indus Waters Treaty was suspended. It is a calibrated test of Pakistan’s diplomatic and legal response capacity—and a precedent for potentially larger diversions. On May 20, 2026, India’s National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC)…
(By Khalid Masood) At 15:15 hours on May 28, 1998, the granite and sand of the Ras Koh Hills in Balochistan’s Chagai District shuddered with five simultaneous underground detonations that instantly redrawn the geopolitical map of South Asia. In that searing moment, Pakistan crossed the nuclear threshold—codenaming the operation Chagai-I—followed two days later by a…
(By Khalid Masood) Introduction: A Tale of Two Headlines On 23 May 2026, Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh stood before an audience in Shirdi, Maharashtra, and delivered a vision of India’s future that was as grandiose as it was revealing. Inaugurating an ammunition production facility, Singh declared that within 25 to 30 years, India would…
(By Khalid Masood) In the absence of functional great-power consensus, the architecture of international crisis management is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Today’s diplomatic landscape is increasingly shaped not by hegemonic imposition, but by calibrated facilitation. Nowhere is this shift more visible than in the emerging backchannel between Washington and Tehran, where Islamabad has…
