Faisal Ahmad

A war may conclude with a troop withdrawal, but its weapons often continue fighting long after soldiers leave the battlefield. August 2021 departure of US…

  ACROSS much of the developing world, rapid demographic growth is outstripping the outdated institutions designed to govern it. When state machinery built for smaller…

  THROUGHOUT its history, Pakistan has faced profound national security pressures shaped by its critical geostrategic location. Today, however, the convergence of shifting regional alignments,…

  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 Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at The Hague delivered a decisiveruling. It gave a historic verdict against unilateral water coercion by India. The…

  IN a recent Newsweek opinion piece titled “A Treaty Pakistan Destroyed Long Before India Set It Aside,” Indian Ambassador to United States Vinay Mohan…

  A diplomatic reset is quietly unfolding across South Asia. For decades, foreign policy circles in New Delhi operated under the implicit assumption that Bangladesh…

  A diplomatic reset is quietly unfolding across South Asia. For decades, foreign policy circles in New Delhi operated under the implicit assumption that Bangladesh…

  OVER the past five years, the environment for journalists and news outlets in Afghanistan has suffered a dramatic collapse. What began as simple administrative…

  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…