The Pyromaniac and the Peacemaker: Netanyahu vs. the Region
There are moments in history when diplomacy dies with a whimper, not a bang. But this time, it may die with both. Israel, drunk on decades of unpunished aggression, has…
Junaid S Ahmad
The Coronation of a Collaborator: General Munir’s American Umrah
In the imperial theater of Washington, where regimes are puppeteered and loyalties auctioned, a curious ceremony unfolded. General Asim Munir, Pakistan’s top-ranking uniformed ruler, arrived not as a diplomat of…
Genocide and the Generals: On the Uses and Uselessness of Muslim Militaries
It is the year 2025, and Gaza lies in ruins. Again. Except this time, the devastation has reached levels that no euphemism—no “conflict,” no “operation,” no “security response”—can whitewash. Since…
Pride, Propaganda, and the Nuclear Hangover in the Subcontinent
More than a month has passed since the deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam, deep in the restive terrain of Indian-occupied Kashmir. Yet, the region has not exhaled. That attack was…
Gold for Genocide: Trump’s Gulf Tour and the Cowardice of Kings
Donald Trump didn’t glide into the Gulf as a diplomat brokering peace. He arrived like a swaggering auctioneer at a royal fire sale—offering nothing but flattery and appetite, and leaving…
The Desert Applause: Trump, Tyrants, and the Theatre of Power
There’s a peculiar kind of irony that history seems to favor—where former reality TV stars turned presidents, banished by democratic verdicts and haunted by indictments, find redemption not in courts…
War in South Asia: Demagogues, Generals, and Nuclear Madness
What was feared has happened. India has launched military strikes deep inside Pakistan, and Islamabad claims to have retaliated in kind. The spark? A terrorist attack over a week ago…
Kashmir and the Spectacle of Manufactured Crises
It was an old script, dusted off and recycled with all the subtlety of a Bollywood B-movie plot: an attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Kashmir—tragic, condemnable, and as predictable as…
Imran Khan’s Pakistan: ‘Democracy Now,’ Democracy Deferred
To an outsider, Pakistan’s ruling class appears schizophrenic, perpetually swinging between Washington and Beijing, using each as leverage against the other. While Pakistan’s geostrategic importance allows this game for now,…
Khan vs. the Generals, Checkmate: Khan
Pakistan's elections just days ago both lived up to expectations, and did not. What was predicted was the electoral tampering, rigging, and outright fraud that was a central feature of the…
Biden’s Generals in Pakistan
As the world, and especially Muslims, correctly has been focused on the Zionist genocide in Gaza, we seem to have forgotten President Biden's criminality in another part of the world.…
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