Aishwaria Sonavane
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Opinion | Pakistan's Kashmir 'Story' Is Now Collapsing Under The Weight Of Its Own Contradictions
Pakistan spent decades internationalising the Kashmir issue. With the PoK uprising, that has come back not only to bite it, but to expose its false narratives
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Opinion | After US-Iran, Why Is Pakistan Suddenly 'Brokering' Peace In Libya Now? Hint: $4 Billion
According to reports, Pakistan became one of the interlocutors alongside the US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey.
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Opinion | The Kashmir Protest Pakistan Cannot Blame On India
Islamabad has long viewed political mobilisation in PoK through an external lens of alleged Indian 'interference'. But the recent uprisings in the region lays bare the limits of its own policy.
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Opinion | 3 Blasts In A Week: Pakistan's Taliban Blowback Is Entering A Dangerous New Phase
Last week, multiple terror attacks rocked the restive provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. First came an IED attack, then a suicide blast, with militants taking weapons and police personnel from the site, then a bomb blast.
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Opinion | Pakistan's Ever-Running Saudi 'Lifeline' Has Its Limits
There is a gap between what Pakistan seeks from its Gulf partners and their willingness to offer it.
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Opinion | The 'Munir Doctrine' That Drove Pak's US-Iran Brokering Project
The spate of calls, social media messaging, and diplomatic efforts from Pakistan in recent weeks, especially involving PM Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, raises many questions.
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Opinion | Pakistan And The Collapse Of Its 'Good Taliban, Bad Taliban' Illusions
Despite the competing narratives from Kabul and Islamabad, the conflict gains attention for its scale and for the shift in Pakistan's rules of engagement.
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Opinion | Will The Iran War Force Pakistan To Pick 'Sides'?
Given its economic dependence on Gulf countries and strategic leanings toward the US, Pakistan will aim to contain any overt anti-American positioning in public protest or state rhetoric.
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Opinion | Why Foreign Investors Are Growing Worried About Their 'Minerals' Bets In Pakistan
Given that foreign investments require secure supply chains, predictability, and local legitimacy, the crisis in Balochistan is conducive to none of these conditions.
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Opinion | All Talk, No Take-Off: The Reality Of Pakistan's JF-17 Hype
Pakistan's politically charged statements about its JF-17 jets make little sense given how the source-based discussions and expressions of interest it is boasting of are not cemented in finalised agreements.
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Opinion | The Dangerous Logic Behind America's $1.25 Billion 'Mining' Deal With Pakistan
Rhetoric seems to have eclipsed the grim realities of Pakistan, once again.
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Opinion | Inside The 'Amendment' That May Make Asim Munir Pak's Supreme Authority
A constitutional amendment in Pakistan charters a new civil-military dynamic, heavily inclined to accommodate the whims, fancies, and megalomaniacal tendencies of one individual: General Asim Munir.
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Opinion | India, Taliban And Pakistan: An Uneasy Geostrategic Dance
Geographically and strategically, amicable ties between Afghanistan and India have long been a source of unease for Pakistan.
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Opinion | Pakistan's Jihad Factories May Soon Be Getting A 'Saudi' Lifeline
For years, Riyadh has financially backed clerical groups and madrassas promoting the Salafi and Wahhabi schools of thought in Pakistan. If the new deal expands such patronage, it may solidify the framework on which the military-jihad complex relies.
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Opinion | Bangladesh Can't Wish Away Its Dependence On India, Even If It Wants To
While Pakistan may continue to appeal through symbolic gestures to Bangladeshi identity and play up shared Islamic orientation, India offers tangible developmental dividends that Dhaka requires.
