While much of the world’s attention remains fixed on the tensions involving Iran, the United States and Israel, another painful reality continues to unfold in Gaza. Away from the global spotlight, Palestinians are still being killed almost every day, showing that the suffering in the territory has not come to an end despite the ceasefire. […]
Editorial
Selective Rules
Australia’s decision to begin uranium exports to India is being presented as a forward-looking partnership built around clean energy and energy security. The latest agreement effectively ends a 12-year stalemate over the implementation of nuclear cooperation between Australia and India. Canberra says the uranium will be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and remain subject to […]
Exporting Fear
Operation Hard Ball–a law enforcement crackdown carried out by Canadian and U.S. authorities–has done what years of Indian diplomatic messaging sought to prevent: it has placed India’s criminal-security crisis before the world. On July 7, the US Department of Justice announced a multinational crackdown involving law enforcement in the United States, Canada and Europe. Twenty-four […]
Breaking Records
Western Europe’s hottest June on record should bury, once and for all, the comforting illusion that extreme heat is still a distant or occasional climate warning. According to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, the region’s average temperature in June reached 20.74°C, more than 3°C above the 1991-2020 norm, breaking a record set only last […]
Defending Balochistan
The latest killings in Balochistan should not be treated as another grim provincial dispatch. They belong to a larger militant pattern that has gathered pace over the past two years and is now testing the state’s patience and resolve at every possible level. According to DG ISPR Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, four civilians, 27 […]
Diplomacy Under Fire
The ceasefire between the United States and Iran is under its severest strain yet. Speaking at a NATO summit in Ankara on Wednesday, President Donald Trump said the memorandum of understanding signed in mid-June was, as far as he was concerned, “over,” though he left the door open for negotiators to continue talking. He also […]
Local Democracy
The Election Commission’s latest warning to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and federal authorities should embarrass more than one office. Local government is the tier of democracy closest to citizens, yet it remains the easiest to postpone. The ECP has already censured governments for unnecessarily delaying local polls and warned that creating hurdles may attract serious […]
Buried Responsibility
The easiest account of the Gul Plaza inferno is also the most convenient one: that a child allegedly struck a match, a shop caught fire and a terrible accident followed. It is a story that can fit into a police challan. It is also a story that risks burying the more important question raised by […]
AI’s Future
The danger in António Guterres’s warning that the world must not allow artificial intelligence to “vibe-code” humanity’s future is not the odd phrase. It is the institutional anxiety behind it. The world is watching a technology of enormous consequence move faster than the laws, ethics and public institutions meant to govern it. AI is no […]
Khamenei’s Funeral
The funeral procession of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran was not arranged merely as a farewell. It was staged as an answer. Iran had lost its supreme leader to war, yet the state wanted the world to see streets filled with mourners, flags, chants and a carefully managed message of defiance. […]