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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,…

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…