If Pakistan moves forward with acquiring China’s J-35 stealth fighter, it will represent the most significant upgrade to its airpower since the F-16s entered service back in 1983. For the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), this would mark several milestones: entry into fifth-generation aerial combat and the introduction of its first twin-engine fighter jet, after two […]
Op-Ed
Future Of War Is Already Here
The USA developed the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) doctrine, taking the lead from the erstwhile Soviet army’s concept of technology-based military operations. This framework for the USA was written down by the Pentagon’s Andrew Krepinevich in 1992, which was later drawn into an actual war-fighting policy in 2003 by Donald Rumsfeld. It envisioned precision […]
India’s Digital Extremism
As digital platforms increasingly shape political discourse and cultural expression, they also bear growing responsibility for preventing the spread of harmful content. A report by the Washington, D.C.-based Centre for the Study of Organised Hate (CSOH) delivers a sharp critique of YouTube, Meta, Spotify, and Apple Music, accusing them of failing to enforce their own […]
The School as a Data Centre
The image of the “chalk and talk” classroom- static rows of desks, a teacher lecturing at a blackboard, a single textbook dictating the pace of learning for forty children at once- is dying everywhere. In its place, a new architecture is emerging: the school as a living CPU, a hyper-integrated ecosystem of sensors, software, and […]
The Indus Red Line
The most dangerous consequence of India placing the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance will probably not be a dry riverbed appearing across Pakistan tomorrow morning. New Delhi lacks the reservoirs, canals and diversion works required to stop the western rivers at will. The nearer danger is the disappearance of predictability: water passing through the territory […]
From Rock to Revenue
For decades, Pakistan has sat on one of the world’s great geological gifts while capturing only a fraction of its value. The country’s Himalayan pink salt, prized globally for its purity and colour, has largely left Pakistan as raw material, letting overseas processors and retailers pocket the bulk of the profit. The Chief Minister Pink […]
19 July: When Kashmir Spoke
The historic road from Srinagar to Rawalpindi is more than a strategic route. The rivers flowing from Kashmir are much more than water. These are the living arteries of a civilisational, economic, geographic, and emotional bond that led Quaid-e-Azam to describe Kashmir as Pakistan’s ‘jugular vein.’ The depth of the political, cultural, and emotional bond […]
Economic Ties, But with Sovereign Realities!
International assessments routinely critique developing nations on civil rights, yet the structural reality of pluralism in Pakistan paints a very different picture. EU’s assessment report is being discussed nowadays about the state of human rights and religious freedom in Pakistan. In a country where 97% of the population identifies as Muslim, religious minorities freely practice […]
Pakistan and the Global South’s Battle for AI Rules
The defining geopolitical competition of the twenty-first century will not be fought solely over trade routes, semiconductors, or critical minerals. It will increasingly revolve around a more fundamental question: Who writes the rules governing artificial intelligence? Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the world’s most consequential strategic technology. While much attention has focused on the race […]
19 July: The unfinished promise of Kashmir
19 July: When Kashmir Spoke Perhaps India is well aware of the fact that not a single Kashmiri shall vote for it, and that is why it continues to evade the UN resolutions with sham excuses one way or the other. The historic road from Srinagar to Rawalpindi is more than a strategic route. The […]