Thousands of agents diverted to Trump immigration crackdown
Brad Heath, Joshua Schneyer, Marisa Taylor, Sarah N. Lynch, Mike Spector Federal agents who usually hunt down child abusers are now cracking down on immigrants who live in the US…
Terror challenges
The Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2025, published by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), ranks Pakistan as the second most terrorism-affected country in the world. This two-place jump on…
Down, but not out
THE women’s movement in Pakistan cannot be accused of melodrama, even when the Aurat March in Islamabad resorted to staging a symbolic funeral for women’s rights. International Women’s Day celebrations…
Case of the BLA and PKK
WITH the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, the Middle East’s militant landscape has been in the throes of a rapid transformation. Armed groups are under immense pressure to change tactics,…
Indonesia’s ‘smooth’ polls a beacon in sea of strongmen
Indonesia pulled off a complex yet peaceful election across its vast - and ethnically diverse - island territory this week, cementing its place as a democratic beacon in a sea…
How 2000-2025 shaped Pakistan
As the sun set on December 31, I wondered what the new year would bring for Pakistan. Being a social scientist and heading a firm that measures the pulse of…
Beware the tides of 2025
It is the silver jubilee year. The millennials are the bygones. Gen Zee is up close and present. The Alphas are the new kids on the block. Last year for…
Struggling against terrorism
IT has been a decade since the attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, which killed some 150 students and staff in December 2014. It was the darkest moment in Pakistan’s…
Countering terror — beyond labels
During the past few weeks, terrorists affiliated with the TTP), Al-Qaeda, and the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) have been referred to by Pakistani authorities as Khawarij. This term,…
‘Action is approaching’?
You know you’re following the right journalists, amid all the noise and international media hijack of the Gaza genocide, when their reading of the war turns out to be right…
