Faisal Ahmad

Faisal Ahmad

Education, sovereignty & rule of law!

  A university campus is often imagined as a sanctuary unbound by geopolitics. Inside lecture halls, medical labs, and libraries, knowledge flows without borders and…

Faisal Ahmad

The Hague reclaims the Indus!

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

Faisal Ahmad

International law over rhetoric!

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

Faisal Ahmad

Balance of power in South Asia!

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

Faisal Ahmad

Balance of power in South Asia!

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

Faisal Ahmad

Afghanistan: An information prison!

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

Faisal Ahmad

New atomic age!

  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…

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Beyond kinetic actions!

  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…

Faisal Ahmad

Deconstructing hybrid assault on Balochistan

  When an ambush in Mastung claimed the life of Sessions Judge Abdul Hakeem Kakar, it laid bare a sophisticated operational dynamic. What appears on…

Faisal Ahmad

Peace or Greater Israel?

  WHEN the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding was announced, a weary world dared to hope for a reprieve. The diplomatic breakthroughs engineered a phased reopening…

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