Every year, International Women’s Day arrives with familiar slogans about equality, empowerment and progress. Across continents, from Latin America to Africa, from Palestine to Afghanistan, women are not merely demanding rights. They are organizing, resisting, documenting and rebuilding societies. And among the most powerful examples of resilience today are Kashmiri women. Their story is not...
Pakistan’s economy has been under immense pressure from rising inflation, dwindling foreign reserves, and persistent trade imbalances, while households grapple with limited purchasing power. Against this backdrop, the government has increasingly relied on petroleum levy as a major revenue source rather than cutting unnecessary expenditures or reforming inefficient public spending. Currently, Pakistan collects around rupees 84 per litre...
Across Kashmir’s long and troubled history runs a silent yet unbroken thread of grief — the grief of its people whose yearning for dignity and freedom has repeatedly been met with force. In recent days, that familiar anguish has once again cast its shadow across the Valley, as reports emerge of hundreds of young Kashmiris...
The government’s decision to raise petrol and diesel prices by Rs55 overnight appears entirely unjustified. Current reports indicate that Pakistan has sufficient petroleum reserves to meet national demand until the end of March, and commercial shipping routes remain operational. In addition, most of the fuel currently stocked at petrol stations was imported at lower prices...
The Middle East is erupting in a war that is no longer limited to the Persian Gulf. It is spilling into the Indian Ocean, threatening South Asia, and drawing in global powers. Skirmishes, naval confrontations, and proxy attacks are happening simultaneously across multiple fronts, creating chaos and unpredictability. The recent destruction of an Iranian naval...
The escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, particularly involving Iran, are not just regional conflicts. They are already starting to affect global supply chains, energy markets, and international trade routes. History has repeatedly shown that when geopolitical crises emerge around critical energy corridors, the economic ripple effects quickly spread across the world — and...
The assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has not only made headlines but has created a seismic shift in the strategic landscape of the Middle East and South Asia. This shocking act continues a pattern in which the United States over the past two decades has eliminated several key Islamic and regional leaders,...
Linking Airspace Reconfiguration to ECO’s Strategic Doctrine Prepared by: The Trade Facilitation Network (TFN) – RnD department I. Strategic Premise The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) was built on a foundational idea: Historically, ECO connectivity discourse focused on: Airspace was assumed stable and therefore not strategic. That assumption no longer holds. Airspace fragmentation across Eurasia has...
Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei, born in 1939 in Mashhad, served as the Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 until his reported assassination in March 2026. Emerging as a prominent cleric and close associate of Ruhollah Khomeini during the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Khamenei survived an assassination attempt in 1981 that left his right arm partially...
The recent wave of “surgical strikes” and cross-border operations along the approximately 2,670 km frontier between Pakistan and Afghanistan has once again exposed a fragile fault line in regional security. What may appear as tactical military responses risk evolving into a prolonged strategic confrontation. The border is not merely a line on a map; it...
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