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Tania WafaPakistan Observer |
In Balochistan, the distance between a patient and a hospital can be measured not merely in kilometres, but in chances of survival. A pregnant woman...
A man leaves home in the morning with one simple hope: to earn enough to take something back to his family by evening. For the labourers working in an...
For years, geography seemed to give India an advantage that diplomacy could not easily challenge. Bangladesh shares a long border with India, depends...
A country is not judged only by the problems it faces, but also by the confidence its people continue to place in its institutions. At a time when...
Corruption rarely begins with dramatic headlines. It starts quietly, inside procurement files, approval notes and financial decisions that seldom...
Every few years, Pakistan finds itself defending the same accusations before the same audience. Yet the real question is no longer whether Pakistan...
History does not merely remember wars by who fired the first shot. It remembers them by the political ambitions they fulfilled or the strategic...
DIPLOMACY has the power to shape narratives, but it cannot erase history. Governments may celebrate political achievements on international podiums...
Smoke eventually disappears, but the scars it leaves behind often survive for generations. The violence that swept through Manipur was not merely a...
For years, Pakistan’s warnings about terrorist sanctuaries across the Afghan border were often dismissed as part of a complicated regional dispute....
In today’s hyper-connected information landscape, conflicts are no longer fought only on the ground. They are increasingly shaped in the realm of...
For years, China has served as the primary justification for the existence and expansion of the Quad. The rise of Beijing’s influence across the...
HISTORY is often shaped not only by political movements and revolutions but also by visionary individuals whose ideas quietly influence the course of...
There are some issues in world politics where silence becomes more dangerous than speech. Palestine is one of them. For decades, the question of...
The shattered walls of the Fateh Khel police post in Bannu are more than the remains of a terrorist attack. They are a painful reminder of the price...
The Raheema Bibi case has once again drawn attention to the evolving and increasingly complex nature of militant facilitation networks in Balochistan,...
At a time when headlines often frame Pakistan’s economic decisions through a lens of vulnerability, the recent repayment of a foreign deposit to the...
In an increasingly complex global security landscape, the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2026 delivers a stark message: Pakistan now stands as the...
In the rugged mountains of Tirah Valley, where narrow passes wind through steep terrain along the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, the struggle...
Discussions about South Asian security frequently drift toward dramatic narratives involving intelligence agencies, militant networks, and covert...
In the shadows of the Himalayas, Indian-administered Kashmir tells a story of enduring trauma, where decades of conflict and political instability...
The persistent instability of Afghanistan is deeply rooted in its historical evolution and ethnic diversity. Even before the emergence of a unified...
Balochistan has long stood at the crossroads of grievance and geopolitics. Its problems are neither imagined nor recent. Political marginalization,...