Pakistan’s War on Artistic Expression: From Stage Bans to Silenced Poets
As actresses face restrictions over dance performances and poets and journalists confront detention and threats, growing concerns over freedom of…
As Poor as a War Zone: Pakistan’s Dwindling Economy and No Signs of Recovery
The World Bank’s October 2026 regional update has produced the most damaging statistic published about Pakistan in years, and it…
Guns for the Powerful, Hunger for the People: Pakistan’s Militarised State and the Crisis of Human Security
In October 2026, the World Bank published a sentence that deserves to stand as the epitaph of a governing model….
Faith at crossroads: Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and India’s secular constitutional shield
A religious accusation in Pakistan can begin with a whispered allegation and end with a prison cell, a death sentence…
Two Days to Peshawar: Provocation, Revenge and the Blowback of Pakistan’s Afghan Gamble
On 30 September 2026, Noorullah Noori, acting Minister of Borders, Tribes and Tribal Affairs in Afghanistan’s Taliban-led administration, offered a…
Pakistan’s Cross Border Terrorism Strategy Becomes India’s Burden and Cost
Terrorism has become one of the most corrosive burdens India has had to bear, not only in the lives lost…
Balochistan- Billions Below, Questions Above
On September 24, 2026, Reuters placed Balochistan on a much larger global map: the race for critical mineral resources. At…
Pakistan’s Afghan deportation drive tests the principle of non-refoulement
For decades, Pakistan was a place of refuge for Afghans fleeing war, political persecution and insecurity. Families crossed the border…
Abduction, conversion, forced marriage: Pakistan’s minority girls trapped in a cycle of impunity
For Pakistan’s Maria Shahbaz and Aneeqa Ishaq, childhood and adolescence were violently interrupted by the same disturbing combination of abduction, alleged forced conversion and marriage. …
When Prisoners of Geography Become Prisoners of Power -Balochistan, Kashmir
On September 22, two police officers guarding a polio vaccination team were shot dead by gunmen in Nushki, Balochistan. On…
