Pakistan

03 Feb, 2026

Why Pakistan Is Courting a Libyan Warlord: A Risky Bet With High Costs

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — Pakistan’s military leadership this week hosted Khalifa Haftar, the controversial commander of Libya’s eastern armed forces, in a meeting that has raised pointed questions about Islamabad’s foreign‑policy direction and

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28 Jan, 2026

In Pakistan’s Cities, Women Enter 2026 Still Fighting for Space — and Imagining a Different Future

KARACHI, Pakistan — In the early weeks of 2026, as Pakistan’s cities swell and strain under the weight of rapid urbanisation, one truth has become impossible to ignore: women remain largely invisible

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26 Jan, 2026

Pakistan’s Parched Lands: A Drought Born of Neglect and Political Distraction

ISLAMABAD — Across the baked plains of Balochistan, where villages like Daak sit at the edge of the desert, a slow‑moving disaster is tightening its grip. Wells that once sustained entire communities

Pakistan’s Fawning Embrace of Trump: A Nobel Gambit That Betrays Its Founding Ideals

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s recent overtures toward President Donald J. Trump have drawn a mix of bewilderment and criticism at home and abroad, after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif praised him as a potential

25 Jan, 2026

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The Roar in the Backyard: Pakistan’s Elite and the Perilous Allure of Exotic Pets

LAHORE, Pakistan — In the quiet, villa-lined outskirts of this sprawling provincial capital, wildlife officers arrived at a home in Nawan Kot to find a scene that might have belonged on the

25 Jan, 2026

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The Forgotten Massacre Pakistan Refuses to Remember

The Multan killings of January 1978 sit in a peculiar place in Pakistan’s political memory. They were vast in scale, brutal in execution, and revealing in what they exposed about the country’s

21 Jan, 2026

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Pakistan’s Power Brokers Turn to an Unlikely Patron: Donald Trump

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In the quiet corridors of Islamabad’s ministries and the fortified compounds of Rawalpindi, an unusual optimism has begun to circulate. It is not rooted in democratic renewal or economic

17 Jan, 2026

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Brewing Under the Crescent: Pakistan’s oldest company thrives by supplying what the nation denies wanting

ISLAMABAD — In a country where ordering a beer in public can provoke scandal — or worse — the survival of Pakistan’s oldest company is an improbable story of adaptation, contradiction and

04 Jan, 2026

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In Pakistan, a New Wave of Punitive Actions Deepens Fears Over Shrinking Civic Freedoms

ISLAMABAD and LAHORE — Pakistan opened the new year with two sweeping moves against journalists and lawyers, intensifying concerns among rights groups that the country is entering one of its most repressive

04 Jan, 2026

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Pakistan’s Slide in the Global Peace Index Exposes a Region Moving in Divergent Directions

South Asia’s security landscape has long been shaped by its two largest states, India and Pakistan—nuclear‑armed rivals whose trajectories often define the region’s political temperature. But the Global Peace Index 2025 draws

29 Dec, 2025

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Pakistan’s Gaza Calculus Tests Its U.S. Ambitions — and Its Nerves

WASHINGTON — Pakistan’s tentative openness to joining a proposed International Stabilisation Force for Gaza has drawn rare praise from Washington, but it has also exposed the deep contradictions in Islamabad’s foreign policy

20 Dec, 2025

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In Balochistan, Security‑First Doctrine Fuels Disappearances and Distrust

QUETTA, Pakistan — A surge of alleged enforced disappearances in Balochistan is provoking alarm at home and abroad, reviving long‑standing fears about state overreach, weak accountability, and a judiciary struggling to assert

16 Dec, 2025

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Pakistan Sentences Ex‑Spy Chief, Once Ally of Imran Khan, to 14 Years

In a stunning turn for Pakistan’s powerful military establishment, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Faiz Hameed, once the head of the country’s feared Inter‑Services Intelligence agency, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison

11 Dec, 2025

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Pakistan

Why Pakistan Is Courting a Libyan Warlord: A Risky Bet With High Costs

In Pakistan’s Cities, Women Enter 2026 Still Fighting for Space — and Imagining a Different Future

Pakistan’s Parched Lands: A Drought Born of Neglect and Political Distraction

Pakistan’s Fawning Embrace of Trump: A Nobel Gambit That Betrays Its Founding Ideals

The Roar in the Backyard: Pakistan’s Elite and the Perilous Allure of Exotic Pets

The Forgotten Massacre Pakistan Refuses to Remember

Pakistan’s Power Brokers Turn to an Unlikely Patron: Donald Trump

Brewing Under the Crescent: Pakistan’s oldest company thrives by supplying what the nation denies wanting

In Pakistan, a New Wave of Punitive Actions Deepens Fears Over Shrinking Civic Freedoms

Pakistan’s Slide in the Global Peace Index Exposes a Region Moving in Divergent Directions

Pakistan’s Gaza Calculus Tests Its U.S. Ambitions — and Its Nerves

In Balochistan, Security‑First Doctrine Fuels Disappearances and Distrust

Pakistan Sentences Ex‑Spy Chief, Once Ally of Imran Khan, to 14 Years

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