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Running on sunshine: Pakistan’s solar boom to tide over Middle East energy...
Energy expert Vaqar Zakaria believes solar power makes “excellent economic sense” — and he lives by it. For over five years, his rooftop panels have slashed his bills, sometimes to zero, even allowing...
View ArticleThe binary trap: How narratives of ‘Us vs Them’ manufacture consent for war
A persistent, lung-searing rain of fire is currently cauterising the nerves of the Iranian landscape, exposing the jagged vulnerability of a nation under the reach of a rampaging superpower and the...
View ArticleWhat the attack on Iran’s nuclear sites means for the non-proliferation regime
On March 2, just a few days into the ongoing war, the United States and Israel carried out attacks on Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment facility. After initially disputing the claims, the IAEA later...
View ArticleProtecting consumers or balancing the books: Pakistan’s oil dilemma
Oil has been on everyone’s lips since the start of the US and Israel’s war with Iran. Global energy markets are on tenterhooks as traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, through which about one-fifth of...
View ArticleThe violence of liberation: How war is sold through the language of women’s...
In contemporary international politics, the language of gender equality has increasingly appeared within the moral vocabulary of war over the past few decades. Western governments and political...
View ArticleThe sinking of IRIS Dena: A quiet death of the rules-based order
At 05:08 local time, in international waters 40 nautical miles south of Galle, Sri Lanka, a Mark 48 heavyweight torpedo — one of two fired, with the first missing its mark — struck the IRIS Dena...
View ArticleBrace for impact: The Middle East war has reached Pakistan
The war in the Middle East has formally landed on Pakistan’s shores. The government’s announcement of an emergency Rs55 per litre oil price adjustment on Friday night could well be the first of more to...
View ArticleWhat would a feminist Karachi look like?
Consider this: she gets back home after a long hard day at work. “It’s 10pm already,” she thinks to herself, as something outside the window catches her eye. It’s her roommate excitedly waving a...
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day: For girls in Pakistan’s tribal belt, sports come...
“I was very happy to see the way Aina Wazir was playing cricket,” said 28-year-old Noorena Shams, a professional squash player, when she saw the seven-year-old’s video. The clip, which spread rapidly...
View ArticleFrom end of the Earth to World Cup final: The audacity of the Kiwi
I am writing this from a hospital waiting room where the wi-fi is aggressive, the coffee is optimistic, and my father is currently having his knee surgically improved against his will. The last part is...
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Shooting at Karachi’s US consulate: What does international law say?
On the morning of March 1, 2026, the towering walls of the United States consulate in Karachi became the backdrop to a spectacle that was as political as it was perilous. Hundreds of protesters had...
View ArticleBelief, border and bombs: What long-term instability in Iran means for Pakistan
On Sunday afternoon, protesters in Islamabad pressed shoulder to shoulder, most of them dressed in black, and chanted slogans that rippled through the crowd. “Death to America, death to Israel,” they...
View ArticleIsrael, US bomb Iran: A timeline of how threats escalated into war
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is dead, the Gulf is on fire, and global markets are in chaos. One weekend, precisely the last of February and the first of March 2026, changed everything. We...
View ArticleThe US and Israel struck Iran despite headway in negotiations. What is the...
On the international chessboard, no piece can move as freely as the United States. It moves vertically, horizontally and diagonally, across any number of squares. Regime change in Venezuela, blockades...
View ArticleMisinformation and memes run amok amidst Pak-Afghan conflict
The moment reports of a military confrontation break, newsrooms gear up for sleepless nights, social media erupts with all sorts of “information” and memes (the latter is Pakistan-specific), and...
View ArticleWhere do Pakistan, Afghanistan go from here
When states escalate, they are usually clear about their capacity and objectives. The Afghan Taliban, however, appeared to abandon that principle at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border last night,...
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From paper to action: The missing link in Pakistan’s response to climate change
As the Climate Week Karachi 2026 came to a close on February 4, the urgency for climate action was palpable across panels and community dialogues, with one message reiterated loud and clear by experts...
View ArticlePakistan’s energy sector isn’t broken by chance. It’s broken by design
Last year, Pakistan found itself in the absurd position of paying penalties to avoid receiving liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes it had contractually committed to buy. The country, structurally...
View ArticleThe shutdown of USAID and the deeper crisis behind it
“Why did you start driving inDrive?” It’s my go-to icebreaker with drivers in Pakistan. Lately, the answers have been unsettlingly similar. “I used to work in the development sector,” one man told me....
View ArticleWhen floods come back, they find the same people waiting
When the monsoon rains returned in 2025, they brought with them a fear quite familiar to millions of Pakistanis, not because the downpour was unusual, but because they had finally understood what it...
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