Category: Editorial
Caliphate by Proxy
Caliphate by Proxy – 2026 Turkey’s outreach to Indian Muslims is not humanitarian solidarity but a calculated instrument of Erdogan’s revivalist ambitions, in which Kashmir functions less as a cause than as a credential. The instinct, on first encountering Ankara’s noisy interventions on Kashmir, is to file them under the familiar cabinet of diplomatic…
The Flourishing Ruin
The Flourishing Ruin – 2026 Pakistan’s emergence as the indispensable mediator between Washington and Tehran in 2026 is not a triumph of diplomacy — it is the most complete expression yet of a seventy-nine-year structural condition: a state that has learned to profit from its own precariousness while seventy million of its citizens absorb the…
Constitutional Militarism: How Pakistan’s Army Learned to Rule Without Tanks in the Street
Constitutional Militarism: How Pakistan’s Army Learned to Rule Without Tanks in the Street – 2026 No tanks rolled through Islamabad. No general suspended the constitution. Instead, Pakistan’s parliament voted, amendment by amendment, to hand its army permanent, irreversible control and called it democracy. In April 2022, Pakistan’s National Assembly did something it had never managed…
The Flood Was the Plan
The Flood Was the Plan – 2026 How a single day in October 2023 exposed three decades of strategic delusion and why the world built after it cannot resemble the world before. By Meer Yassir Ahmed There is a moment in every genuinely historical event when you can see, if you are willing…
Why China’s “Eastern Wisdom” Deserves a Western Audit
Why Chinas Eastern Wisdom Deserves a Western Audit – 2026 Beijing speaks the language of coexistence. Its strategic record tells a different story. As China’s ambassador courts Indian youth with visions of shared Asian destiny, the gap between rhetoric and conduct has never been wider — or more consequential. By Meer Yassir Ahmed When Chinese…
THE NATION WE BLED FOR
THE NATION WE BLED FOR – 2026 Bangladesh Marks 55 Years of Freedom. Today, Its Soil Shelters Those Who Target Ours.Three million Bangladeshis died. Indian soldiers bled. Indira Gandhi defied Nixon’s nuclear fleet. Today, an LeT operative runs Kashmir-targeted networks from Dhaka. The nation we liberated is being used to destroy us By Yassir…
Beijing’s Windfall
Beijing’s Windfall – 2026 How America’s war in Iran handed China the strategic opening it could not have engineered itself By Yassir Ahmed Every great power miscalculation produces a beneficiary. The question historians ask is not only who lost, but who gained quietly, methodically, without firing a single shot. Washington is eight weeks into a…