A trusted voice in global media on South Asia and frequently invited as an expert commentator on politics and regional affairs by renowned media outlets, including BBC, CNN, VOA, DW, NPR, DAWN, WION, and NDTV
Published extensively in leading outlets, including Dawn, The Wall Street Journal, TRT World, and The Guardian, with regular opinion pieces for Arab News and Deutsche Welle
رات کے بارہ بجنے کو ہیں، کراچی کے سی ویو میں میرے فلیٹ کے سامنے سمندر کے ساتھ ساتھ سڑک پر ہزاروں نوجوان گاڑیوں اور موٹر سائیکلوں پر سوار، اونچی موسیقی اور پٹاخوں کی آوازوں کے درمیان، ہوائی فائرنگ میں
برسوں قبل پاکستان کی سیاست کے رموز سمجھنے اور سمجھانے کے لیے اشاروں کنایوں کا سہارا لیا جاتا تھا۔ شہر اقتدار یعنی اسلام آباد کے ایک عالی شان ہوٹل کی لابی اقتدار سے ہمیشہ جڑے رہنے والے سیاستدانوں کا گڑھ
لاہور شہر کے مختلف علاقوں کی دیواروں، کھمبوں پر پوسٹرز اور بینرز آویزاں ہیں۔ آدھی تصویر ایاز صادق کی، آدھی پاکستانی قید سے رہائی پانے والے بھارتی پائلٹ ابھی نندن کی۔ شکل ایاز صادق کی، بڑی، بڑی مونچھیں ابھی نندن
گوادر شہر میں حفاظتی باڑ کا حصار کھینچا جا رہا ہے۔ مقامی ماہی گیر اس کی وجہ سے شدید اعصابی تناؤ کا شکار ہیں اور بلوچ قوم پرست سراپا احتجاج۔ ایسا لگ رہا ہے، جیسے سمندری ہواؤں پر کانٹوں کے
بچپن میں ہمارے آبائی شہر لاڑکانہ اور اس کے گرد و نواح میں کوئی میلہ لگتا یا کوئی دوسرا تہوار ہوتا تو پتلی تماشہ سجتا تھا۔ صدیوں پرانی مومل رانڑو، عمر ماروی اور اکبر بادشاہ جیسے مقامی کرداروں کی لوک
مولانا فضل الرحمان کے سیاسی خوابوں کی تعبیر ہمیشہ سے عمران خان کی حکومت کا خاتمہ رہی ہے۔ انتخابات کے بعد ہی مولانا نے اعلان جنگ کر دیا تھا لیکن انہیں ملک کی دو بڑی سیاسی جماعتوں کی سیاسی چھتری
When I first saw Dr Ruth Pfau sitting under an old banyan tree in Manghopir, it reminded me of a childhood story told by my great grandmother, Babi. Babi in her youth was the prettiest girl in her hometown of
I was buying paan leaves for my grandmother that morning in Larkana, when the shop owner Taufeeq bhai, turned up the volume of his radio. The newscaster Khalid Hameed introduced the 11 o’clock bulletin, and announced that Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Fears have haunted me since childhood. Fear of the dark, fear of shadows and of evil characters in fairy tales. In Lakhpat Bhawan, my ancestral home, twilight brought out charpai and my grandmother’s stories. But if horrors ever came towards
Desert nomads used to celebrate the sighting of a full moon. They would gather on sand dunes in their colourful dresses to sing and dance. My grandmother said the full moon heralded happiness because it meant the future was bright,
Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan is in a hospital after surviving an assassination attempt; his furious diehard supporters are protesting on the roads seeking revenge. The government ministers, led by his traditional political arch rivals — the Sharifs —
On the last day of July, the people of Kabul woke to the sound of thunderous blasts and a skyline covered in thick dark clouds. Rumours abounded but there was no official word on what had happened until two days
The East-West face off over the Ukrainian crisis seems dark, gloomy and long, like the cruel Russian winter. At the centre stage of the crisis is President Vladimir Putin who lives in the centuries old presidential palace, the Kremlin, from
When the Taliban overran Kandahar and Helmand, Baloch insurgents sensed their hideouts in Afghanistan were not safe anymore. Under previous Ghani and Karzai governments, the Afghan Taliban provided them shelter, but now the militia was itself the government. The Baloch
The Taliban victory in Kabul was celebrated by fighters in various ways: some sloganeered on the streets, some swarmed the presidential palace, some took photos on abandoned helicopters. Others broke through barricades of Kabul prison and freed hundreds of captured
The winds were changing in my friend Nasir Dawar’s beautiful village of Issori in North Waziristan 20 years ago. As we walked through the lush green fields, he peered and pointed to the mountain looming in the distance, the majestic
Mullah Baradar stepped on Afghan soil after 20 years amid sloganeering his fighters, “Long live Tehrik-i-Taliban!” He chose to land in Kandahar – the Taliban’s birthplace, where Baradar began his life as a Mujahid fighting alongside Mullah Omar against the
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