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Hugs that draw borders
Israel's attack tried to shrink Qatar, and Pakistan answered with presence, not bluster, drawing a hard line for sovereignty. In Doha, mediation became infrastructure: solidarity turned from pose to policy.
Bullets abroad, bullets at home
Charlie Kirk built his career defending guns at home and Israel abroad; yet he died by the very force he glorified. His death reveals the brittleness of ideologies that mistake force for security.
America is in Pakistan’s pocket—yet again
Trump may be isolating the U.S. from the world, tearing up alliances and redrawing the map on his own terms, but as others scramble for relevance, Pakistan has walked out the front door of the White House with an oil deal in hand, signalling a comeback for Pakistan's place on the American mantle.
Stability, by any means necessary
The Field Marshal hasn’t come to charm headlines or peddle illusions; he’s come to stitch a broken republic back together, and in a region entranced by spectacle and the echo of its own bravado, his silence feels less like absence and more like authorship.
New York has had enough of the old playbook
New York does not need another manager. It needs a mayor who understands who the city is really for—and who is willing to fight to make that true. We believe Zohran Mamdani is best placed to do that.
A handshake, a medal, and the choreography of realpolitik
Trump may not win the Nobel. Oslo may smile and move on. But Pakistan has already reclaimed what it truly sought: relevance. The gesture may seem excessive, but it’s a quiet re-entry into a room it refuses to be locked out of: a step back into Washington’s good graces.
The bloody parasitic imperial whore
In a world which rewards champagne exiles and punishes resistance, Khawaja Asif chose authenticity over platitude. In doing so, he said what much of the global south quietly thinks: those who bathe in imperial perfume do not speak for the oppressed.
A trio for the ages
They didn’t posture or perform. They didn’t arrive with placards or pleadings. This trio threaded law, loss, and logic with the calibration of those who knew the weight of what they represent and the silence which usually follows them into Western rooms; this time, they are refusing to let that silence survive.
جنگ کی چنگاریوں میں مؤثر سفارت کاری
جنگی ڈھول کی تھاپ پر نشے میں دھت دنیا کے اندر خاموش مصلحت اور غیر معمولی اعصاب کی ضرورت ہوتی ہے۔ بلاول بھٹو زرداری نے اقوامِ متحدہ میں مؤثر، مضبوط اور بااعتماد انداز میں پاکستان کا مؤقف اجاگر کر دیا ہے۔
Reason in a region addicted to fire
In a world drunk on the drumbeat of war, it takes uncommon nerve to whisper restraint. Yesterday, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari did just that—softly, firmly, devastatingly—from the podium of the United Nations.
اسحاق ڈار اور مؤثر ترین خاموش سفارتکاری
اکیسویں صدی کے سنگین ترین جنگی حالات میں اسحاق ڈار سٹیٹس مین کے طور پر دکھائی دیئے۔ داد و تحسین کیلئے مصنوعی بیانات اور لفظی جنگوں کی بجائے انہوں نے محتاط اور سنجیدہ رویہ اختیار کیا۔ ڈار کا انداز سفارتی ضوابط اور قومی وقار کا عکس تھا۔
Dar’s quiet line
Ishaq Dar, as Pakistan's foreign and deputy prime minister, resisted the urge, so common in crises, for maximalist posturing. He did not parade diplomatic telegrams for public approval. He did not pick Twitter fights. He kept Pakistan’s tone serious and sober.
Free of Britain, recolonised in saffron
In Narendra Modi, the RSS has found not just a leader but a messiah; one with the political cunning of an autocrat and the populist charisma of a televangelist. Under his watch, textbooks have been rewritten, history sanitised, minorities demonised, and a billion people convinced that all of this is progress.
پاک فضائیہ: فضاؤں کی بے تاج بادشاہ، جب دشمن کا غرور زمیں بوس ہوا
مئی 2025 کی ایک خاموش صبح، پاکستان ایئر فورس نے نہ صرف رافیل جیسے مہنگے بھارتی خوابوں کو زمیں بوس کیا بلکہ پوری دنیا کو یہ پیغام دیا کہ برتری شور سے نہیں، تیاری، نظم اور مہارت سے حاصل کی جاتی ہے۔
یہ صرف ایک فضائی جھڑپ نہ تھی یہ ایک نظریے کی شکست، اور ایک قوم کی عسکری حکمت کا اعلان تھا۔
