Should Pakistan expect US withdrawal from Afghanistan?

16 Sep 201925 Oct 2019

I'm resharing this piece from a few months earlier where I expressed skepticism over the US-Taliban peace talks' prospects. This is founded in some very consequential, very long-term and very…

How the current Kashmir crisis presents a strategic opportunity for Iran

19 Aug 201925 Oct 2019

Posted originally to Eurasia Future on 19 August 2019. India de facto annexed Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir earlier this month and heightened military tussles at the border with Pakistan have…

Imran Khan’s ‘anti-Islamophobia’ narrative and its pitfalls

19 Jun 201923 Sep 2019

Posted originally to Surkhiyan.com on 19 June 2019. Collective ideology drives people and holds large, diverse nations together. From the perspective of security – which is Pakistan’s utmost priority for…

Russian media’s under-discussed Zionization

9 May 20191 Dec 2020

Reshared by Crescent International on 2 June 2019. Is an Israel-centric, Zionist-manufactured propaganda thrust taking place in Russia’s media right now? Would this make sense given the state of Russia’s…

Iran Frustrates Trump Administration’s Plots

26 Mar 2018

With Trump appointing vehemently anti-Iranian warmongers Mike Pompeo and John Bolton – with the latter being famous for praising the 2003 Iraq War as a positive event – to the…

The unscathed legitimacy of the Kashmiri freedom struggle against India

21 Feb 201830 Apr 2019

The deterioration of the situation in the Indian-occupied part of Kashmir after the selection by the Indian nation of a Hindu extremist party[1] to govern the country in 2014 has arguably…