Abdullah Esquire

The author is a student of common law and politics in the EU.
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International

The strange intimacy between Pakistan and Zohran Mamdani

Zohran Mamdani is not Pakistani, yet he has stirred a rare warmth in Pakistan. His comfort with Urdu and Hindustani, his visible Muslim identity and his wider South Asian cultural ease have made him feel less like a distant foreign politician and more like someone many Pakistanis instinctively understand.
Britain’s fake gay asylum scandal

Pakistanis at centre of fake gay asylum claims scandal in Britain

An undercover investigation has exposed how migrants, many of them Pakistani, are allegedly being coached to pose as gay in order to claim asylum in Britain, raising difficult questions about visa abuse, organised deception and the damage done to genuine refugees.
English

An ode to Joyland

Joyland doesn’t lecture on patriarchy, but rather makes you live inside its soft violence. It insists on the intimacy of consequences: posture, mood, shame, and what they do to a life.
English

Nawaz’s legacy

Ten years after Lahore’s birthday stopover, a portrait of Nawaz Sharif as the rare Pakistani leader who pursued peace with India and Afghanistan while insisting minorities belonged at the centre of the nation.
International

Kemi Badenoch has declared war on the welfare state

In a blistering London speech, the Conservative leader tore into mental-health diagnoses, child-poverty metrics, and Labour’s welfare vision — igniting the fiercest policy fight of her campaign.
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India debates while Pakistan mediates

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Senior RSS and military remarks in India have reopened the question of dialogue with Pakistan, exposing the limits of New Delhi’s hardline public posture. At the same time, Islamabad is trying to show that its relevance now extends beyond India, through crisis diplomacy involving Iran, the US, the Gulf, China and multilateral finance.

ایران نے پاکستانی ثالثی کے ذریعہ ایک نئی 14 نکاتی تجویز امریکا کے سامنے پیش کر دی۔ ایرانی نیوز ایجنسی

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ایران نے امریکا کے ساتھ جنگ بندی معاہدے کیلئے پاکستانی ثالثی کے ذریعہ نئی 14 نکاتی تجویز پیش کر دی۔ جنگ بندی مذاکرات اور اعتماد سازی کیلئے امریکی اقدامات پر مرکوز ترمیمی تجویز پاکستانی ثالثی کے ذریعہ امریکیوں کے سامنے پیش کی جائے گی۔

Pakistan’s military rebukes Indian army chief over “Geography or History” threat

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On the first anniversary of Marka-e-Haq, Pakistan's military has dismissed the Indian Army Chief's "geography or history" warning as the rhetoric of a state suffering "a bankruptcy of cognitive capacities", and has reminded Delhi that any attempt to target a nuclear neighbour would be neither geographically confined nor politically survivable.

US Congressman Jack Bergman hails Pakistan’s “Statesmanship” in US-Iran peace talks

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Senior US Congressman Jack Bergman, Co-Chair of the Congressional Pakistan Caucus, has formally thanked Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir for Pakistan's role in the ongoing US-Iran peace negotiations, describing Islamabad's contribution as "indispensable" and a demonstration of "true statesmanship" in a letter dated 15 May and sent on House of Representatives letterhead.

پاکستان کی سفارتی کامیابی، اور بیانیہ کی جنگ

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اسلام آباد کی بڑھتی سفارتی حیثیت نے اسے بیانیے کی جنگ کا ہدف بنا دیا ہے۔ نیتن یاہو کے بیانات سے لِنڈسے گراہم کی تنقید تک اور بھارتی میڈیا کے منظم بیانیہ سے پاکستان کے اندر نئے دہشتگردانہ حملوں تک ایک نئی مخالفانہ لَہر اُبھرتی دکھائی دے رہی ہے۔

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