Tag: Pakistan

The report included testimonies from survivors detailing years of abuse, institutional failures in protecting the victims and how race played a role in how victims were selected by these gangs.

Pakistan emerged not as a civilisational state but as a separate country for Muslims who couldn't live with Hindus. That has been their only identity, Hindu-hatred.

Can a political border drawn in 1947 partition a 5,000-year-old soul? Pakistani dancer Sheema Kermani, trained on an Indian state scholarship, wants the world to believe that Odissi belongs to Islamabad. A sharp look into Pakistan's latest cultural toolkit and the ultimate contradiction of an elite that looks to Iran but claims India's heritage.

Pakistan is witnessing an unprecedented surge in terrorism and insurgent violence, with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan emerging as the epicentres of escalating instability. From deadly TTP assaults on security installations to coordinated Baloch insurgent ambushes targeting military convoys, the scale and frequency of attacks reveal a rapidly deteriorating security landscape.

While Punjab is far from returning to the insurgency era of the 1980s, the persistence of low-intensity attacks reveals an adaptive destabilisation strategy aimed at sustaining fear, disrupting public confidence, and keeping the border state strategically unsettled.

Pakistan wanted the prestige of being seen as a peacemaker. Instead, it now finds itself accused of playing host to one side’s military assets while speaking the language of neutrality.