Faisal Ahmad

Frontlines of hybrid warfare & our Pakistan
- By Faisal Ahmad
- October 6, 2026
THROUGHOUT its history, Pakistan has faced profound national security pressures shaped by its critical geostrategic location. Today, however, the convergence of shifting regional alignments,…

Education, sovereignty & rule of law!
- By Faisal Ahmad
- September 26, 2026
A university campus is often imagined as a sanctuary unbound by geopolitics. Inside lecture halls, medical labs, and libraries, knowledge flows without borders and…

The Hague reclaims the Indus!
- By Faisal Ahmad
- September 8, 2026
THE Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at The Hague delivered a decisiveruling. It gave a historic verdict against unilateral water coercion by India. The…

International law over rhetoric!
- By Faisal Ahmad
- September 2, 2026
IN a recent Newsweek opinion piece titled “A Treaty Pakistan Destroyed Long Before India Set It Aside,” Indian Ambassador to United States Vinay Mohan…

Balance of power in South Asia!
- By Faisal Ahmad
- August 25, 2026
A diplomatic reset is quietly unfolding across South Asia. For decades, foreign policy circles in New Delhi operated under the implicit assumption that Bangladesh…

Balance of power in South Asia!
- By Faisal Ahmad
- August 22, 2026
A diplomatic reset is quietly unfolding across South Asia. For decades, foreign policy circles in New Delhi operated under the implicit assumption that Bangladesh…

Afghanistan: An information prison!
- By Faisal Ahmad
- August 18, 2026
OVER the past five years, the environment for journalists and news outlets in Afghanistan has suffered a dramatic collapse. What began as simple administrative…

New atomic age!
- By Faisal Ahmad
- August 7, 2026
I was reading CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s statement recently in which he warned that advanced artificial intelligence capabilities are rapidly evolving into the world’s…

Beyond kinetic actions!
- By Faisal Ahmad
- August 4, 2026
DEBATE surrounding governance, administrative restructuring and the creation of new provinces has taken centre stage in Pakistan’s national discourse nowadays. Faced with a rapidly…

Deconstructing hybrid assault on Balochistan
- By Faisal Ahmad
- July 28, 2026
When an ambush in Mastung claimed the life of Sessions Judge Abdul Hakeem Kakar, it laid bare a sophisticated operational dynamic. What appears on…





