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Kabul’s protection of TTP commanders is not a glitch in the system; it is the system, a living covenant that weighs more than any clause signed in Doha. The Taliban in Afghanistan are no longer guests or leverage to be casually traded away; they have hardened into a parallel sovereignty that Kabul cannot fully control.

By writing real power into the Constitution, the Twenty Seventh Amendment does not create domination, it drags it out of the shadows and subjects it to text, structure and scrutiny. What unsettles its critics is not authoritarianism, but honesty: this amendment ends the comfortable lie that Pakistan’s true centres of command live outside the law.

When a priest with his record can promise the erasure of the Prophet’s name and still function within the margins of acceptability, it is the Indian state’s commitment to secular democracy that is under forensic examination, not just his words.

عمران خان کی افغان پالیسی نے قومی سلامتی کو شدید خطرے میں ڈال دیا۔ سفارتی احتیاط اور ریاستی حکمت کے بجائے انہوں نے قومی مفاد کو ذاتی مقبولیت کے تابع کر دیا، یوں وہ تمام رکاوٹیں کمزور ہو گئیں جو دشمن کی واپسی کے راستے میں حائل تھیں۔ آج جو کچھ ہم دیکھ رہے ہیں، وہ پالیسی کی اصلاح نہیں بلکہ تاخیر سے شروع ہونے والا ایک مشکل اور ناگزیر ریسکیو مشن ہے۔

In Dublin, the Football Association of Ireland voted to call on UEFA to suspend the Israel Football Association from all European competitions, citing clubs operating in occupied territories and alleged failures to enforce anti-racism rules. The motion passed with strong support and mirrors UEFA’s earlier stance on Russia.