India’s ouster from Chabahar is not really a Pakistani victory

8 Aug 202012 Aug 2020

Posted originally to Express Tribune Blogs on 8 August 2020. Some in Pakistan opine that India’s ouster from a Chabahar-related project in Iran is either a Pakistani foreign policy victory…

Yemen’s Houthis and the ‘Iran versus Saudi Arabia’ false binary

3 Jun 2020

Posted originally to Strafasia on 2 June 2020. Notably in Pakistan, the notion of a regional ‘Iran versus Saudi Arabia’ struggle for influence is a popular framework adhered to by…

Saudi fragility makes Imran’s volte-face on Malaysia Summit more embarrassing

21 Dec 201919 Aug 2020

Posted originally to Express Tribune blogs on 21 December 2019. The flawed gains-and-losses calculus of Imran Khan’s PTI government recently produced what may well be the most aberrational and peculiar…

Pakistan & the Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019

14 Dec 201928 Mar 2020

Co-authored with Mobeen Jafar Mir for Islamabad Policy Institute (IPI) on 13 December 2019. The upcoming ‘Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019’ going to be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre…

Lacking direction: PTI’s Kashmir Policy

7 Dec 20196 Jan 2020

Posted originally to Strafasia on 7 December 2019. Does Imran Khan ignoring the letter of Syed Ali Geelani, veteran Kashmiri freedom icon, epitomize the PTI’s Kashmir policy? Is the PTI…

4D Chess by PTI standards: India’s Foreign Minister slams same ‘liberal media’ PTI keeps pandering to

22 Oct 201925 Oct 2019

'English-speaking liberal media biased, covered Kashmir unfairly - India's Foreign Minister' - 22 October 2019, RT A crude exhibition of the typical cheap brand of low-cunning possessed by Indian political…

Upcoming anti-Pakistan Congress hearing on Kashmir described as ‘achievement’ by pro-PTI media

21 Oct 201925 Oct 2019

Another example exemplifying PTI's fruitless and futile pandering to the US system and its repeated, shoddy attempts to paint their efforts as yielding anything at all can be seen in…

IoK’s annexation shows that PTI’s appeasement policy is a failure

9 Oct 201925 Oct 2019

Did Pakistan really believe constantly making un-reciprocated peace gestures was going to make India's ruling BJP decide to not go ahead with the annexation of Indian-occupied Kashmir? i.e Something that has been…

The Frankenstein monster that is PTI-era ‘patriotism’ and Imran’s failed Kashmir activism

22 Sep 20197 Dec 2019

I really need to get this out there. My thoughts on certain upsetting trends put into place at the worst possible time in history by the Imran Khan-led PTI government…

The Pakistan-India info-war and the Israeli X Factor

12 Jul 201925 Oct 2019

Posted originally to Regional Rapport on 12 July 2019. Regardless of how weak India’s media propaganda might be, Pakistan still has much to do in gaining the upper hand against…