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Umar Khalid Dar

Pakistan Observer

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Rethinking Pakistan’s western strategy

03.04.2026 40

Pakistan Observer

Umar Khalid Dar

The mediator’s dilemma — learning from 1971

AMID rising tensions between Washington and Tehran threatening to destabilize the broader West Asia region, Pakistan has offered to serve as a...

28.03.2026 40

Pakistan Observer

Umar Khalid Dar

Neutrality is no strategy for Pakistan

AS the US-led campaign against Iran enters its third week, the fog of war is lifting and with it, the illusion of a swift victory. What was initially...

19.03.2026 30

Pakistan Observer

Umar Khalid Dar

Pakistan and the US-Iran brinkmanship

07.02.2026 30

Pakistan Observer

Umar Khalid Dar

Mirage of ‘graveyard’ & Pak’s Afghan policy

14.11.2025 40

Pakistan Observer

Umar Khalid Dar

Pak foreign policy conundrum

09.11.2025 70

Pakistan Observer

Umar Khalid Dar

Insurgencies in Balochistan: Roots & resolutions

17.04.2025 90

Pakistan Observer

Umar Khalid Dar

Balochistan and East Pakistan: Lessons from 1971 and the Current Crisis

On 4th May 1947, Quaid e Azam stated that the British partition plan had given him a “mutilated, truncated, moth-eaten Pakistan”. In 1971,...

25.03.2025 70

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Umar Khalid Dar