Opinion
Moditva and Its Discontents
by: Arifa Zahoor Ahmed
Date: September 9, 2025
In 2014, when Narendra Modi swept to power promising development, many Indians hoped his government would finally deliver growth and stability. A decade later, Modi has indeed transformed India but...
Opinion
From the Ground Up: Pakistan’s Rare Earth Moment
by: Adina Wajid
Date: August 22, 2025
It has almost become a cliché to call rare earths and critical minerals the oil of the 21st century, but the comparison is not without merit. It is a turn...
OPINION
Financing Climate Action
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: August 20, 2023
The global climate crisis has left no country untouched, but it is the developing world that (more…)
Opinion
Pakistan’s Climate Journey in 16 Months
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: August 15, 2023
A small anecdote sums up the cognitive confusion (more…)
OPINION
The Season of Climate Migrants
by: Saif Jamali
Date: September 1, 2022
Human migration is the single most disruptive outcome of climate induced stress, as seen over decades across the world. (more…)
OPINION
A Fragile Stalemate on the LoC
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: February 24, 2022
In the policy permafrost of Indo-Pak relations, not much is expected to move towards resolution through diplomatic engagement. (more…)
OPINION
Who Will Win the Hindi Heartland?
by: Meera Nadeem & Abdulla Wasti
Date: February 11, 2022
India had once claimed the merit of being the largest democracy in the world, where 900 million voters enable (more…)
OPINION
The pursuit of strategic autonomy
by: Abdulla Wasti
Date: December 23, 2021
The recently held democracy summit ended up being another iteration of a world being divided into binaries. While the summit (more…)
OPINION
The Indo-Pacific shift: a struggle for power
by: Abdulla Wasti
Date: December 10, 2021
The recently held virtual meeting of the Climate Summit between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping might have initiated some meaningful contact between the two states, but...
OPINION
AFGHANISTAN: WINTER IS COMING
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: November 3, 2021
South Asia faces a perfect storm with the growing risk of an unstable Afghanistan, coupled with divided views in the international community on who must take responsibility for the strategic...
