(By Ayesha Mohsin) In July 2025, a cloudburst in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Diamer district unleashed devastating flash floods and landslides, sweeping away vehicles, blocking highways, and claiming at least five lives, including four tourists and one local. Over 200 tourists were stranded as monsoon rains and glacial melt, exacerbated by climate change, ravaged northern Pakistan’s scenic valleys….
Book in BriefIncredible and Shining India!Danish Javeed | Hurst, 2024 | 320 pp. A Mirror Held to a RepublicDanish Javeed’s latest work arrives not as a conventional chronicle but as a reckoning—a series of refracted testimonies that force the reader to stare back at a republic busy rewriting its own reflection. Where earlier histories of…
(Quratulain Khalid) Introduction India’s 200 million Muslims languish in a heart-wrenching struggle, crushed by systemic discrimination, brutal persecution, and relentless marginalization. In cities like Delhi and Mumbai, they endure squalid ghettos while skyscrapers mock their plight. The 2006 Mumbai train bombings case, where 12 Muslims faced wrongful conviction for nearly two decades, exposes India’s ruthless…
Regional security might sound like an old story of border disputes and military standoffs, but the reality in 2025 is anything but familiar. Over 60 percent of major threats now come from hybrid and technological sources instead of traditional military force. So, while everyone is focused on tanks and treaties, the biggest risks are coming from quantum…
(By Khalid Masood) This morning, a veteran, Lt Col Muhammad Ishaq Qazi (Retd), along with his beloved daughter, set out from their residence in Phase-5 of DHA Islamabad, driving their Honda City. It was a familiar route—one he had navigated countless times. But today, the skies had unleashed a relentless deluge. Torrential rain hammered the…
(By Mohsin Tanveer) In Manchester, a 28-year-old British-Pakistani GP live-tweets a protest outside the Pakistani High Commission, her thread amplifying grievances over consular delays. Within hours, Pakistan’s Foreign Office (FO) Spokesperson quotes her on X at the daily presser, showcasing the diaspora’s clout. With 9 million overseas Pakistanis wielding influence through WhatsApp group-chats and viral…
(By Khalid Masood) In October 2024, India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar darted from the Quad Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Wilmington, Delaware, to the BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia—a 30-hour diplomatic charade exposing New Delhi’s cunning attempt to court both the U.S.-led West and China’s economic bloc. Can India, with its sly multi-alignment, juggle…
(By Khalid Masood) Can a beleaguered Japanese leader outmanoeuvre political chaos and a volatile U.S. President to secure a critical trade deal? On 20 July 2025, Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) suffered a seismic defeat in the House of Councillors election, losing its majority in both parliamentary chambers for the first time since 1955, leaving…
(Quratulain Khalid) Can a single book unravel the hidden forces steering our chaotic world? In Who Rules the World? (2017), Noam Chomsky, the world’s foremost intellectual, delivers a jaw-dropping critique of America’s imperial power, exposing how its rhetoric of freedom masks a ruthless pursuit of global control. This New York Times bestseller, updated with a…
(By Khalid Masood) Can an unstoppable air force turn a global airshow into a stage for world-class dominance? On 19 July 2025, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) ignited a global sensation at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) in Fairford, UK, with its JF-17 Thunder Block-III clinching the “Spirit of the Meet Trophy” for its…
