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From Cold War Pawns

From Cold War Pawns to Domestic Fire

October 12, 2025 by Leila Khan

October 12, 2025 by Sajid Salamat

History has a way of circling back to those who refuse to learn from it. In the late 1970s, Pakistan stood at the crossroads of global power politics, America’s frontline ally against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. What began as a calculated geopolitical move soon became one of the most disastrous social experiments of modern […]

Filed Under: Op-Ed Tagged With: Domestic Fire, From Cold War Pawns, history

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