(By Faraz Ahmed) The assassination of Sharif Osman Bin Hadi on 18 December 2025 has become one of the most consequential political deaths in Bangladesh’s recent history. The 32-year-old student leader, who rose to prominence during the 2024 uprising that toppled Sheikh Hasina, was gunned down in Dhaka just days after launching his independent election…
Introduction: A Community Caught in the Crossfire of History A young girl writes a poem where she asks a simple question — one which no one can answer. She asks, “Who am I?” Her forefathers were born in India, they immigrated to Pakistan, and she was born in Bangladesh. India has given up on them…
(By Mohsin Tanveer) The ongoing tensions along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border have exposed the fragility of regional relations, but they have also revealed India’s calculated opportunism. While Pakistan has been compelled to close key crossings like Torkham and Chaman to counter cross-border terrorism sponsored from Afghan soil, New Delhi is rushing to fill the vacuum through…
(By Ayesha Mahnoor) On the night of December 1, 2025, Islamabad witnessed a tragedy that should have shaken the conscience of the nation. Two young women—friends, colleagues, daughters of poor households—were crushed to death while riding a scooter home. Their lives ended not because of fate, but because of reckless power unchecked by law. According…
(By Ayesha Mahnoor) In the hallowed halls of India’s Lok Sabha on December 10, 2025, Union Home Minister Amit Shah delivered a stark proclamation that reverberated far beyond the chamber’s walls: the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government’s unwavering policy toward “illegal immigrants”—a term often wielded in reference to Muslims and other minorities from neighboring countries—is…
(By Ayesha Mahnoor) In the heart of what was once proudly hailed as the world’s largest secular democracy, a quiet but relentless transformation is underway. Nearly 200 million Indian Muslims—citizens whose families have lived on this soil for centuries, sometimes millennia—are being pushed to the margins of their own country. Streets that once echoed with…
(By Quratulain Khalid) The recent sentencing of Sheikh Hasina Wajed to death by a Dhaka tribunal on November 17, 2025, marks a poetic yet overdue reckoning. This verdict, handed down in absentia for her role in the brutal 2024 crackdown that claimed over 800 lives, exposes the fragility of her so-called “iron-clad” rule and the…
(Mohsin Tanveer) El Fasher, the historic capital of North Darfur and a city of over 250,000 souls, was once a vibrant crossroads of trade and culture in western Sudan. By late October 2025, after an excruciating 18-month siege, it became a graveyard. On October 26-27, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)—descendants of the Janjaweed militias…
(By Khalid Masood)October 6, 2025 Introduction Yasin Malik, born on April 3, 1966, in the bustling riverside neighborhood of Maisuma in Srinagar, has long been a polarizing figure in the Kashmir conflict. As the chairman of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Malik embodies the turbulent history of Kashmiri separatism—a journey from armed insurgency in…
(By Khalid Masood) The October 4, 2025, peace accord between the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) and Pakistani authorities has brought an end to days of unrest in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), but one element continues to spark debate: the handling of 12 reserved seats in the AJK Legislative Assembly for refugees—primarily those displaced…
