By Asif Haroon Raja Hot Question The burning question dominating strategic discourse is whether President Donald Trump will sign and finalise a peace agreement with Iran before departing for China on 15 May. Hard Realities The following strategic realities must be taken into account: The US campaign, codenamed “Epic Fury,” has failed to achieve its principal war objectives despite carrying out more than 15, ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai As diplomats, disarmament experts, and political leaders gather at the United Nations Headquarters in New York for the Eleventh Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the world once again confronts a sobering truth: humanity continues to live under the shadow of nuclear annihilation. The conference, which runs until May 22, 2026, was convene ...

By Dr Syed Fai Two important gatherings at the United Nations Headquarters in New York this April have brought renewed attention to a principle that lies at the very core of international law: the right of peoples to self-determination. On April 20, 2026, a conference titled “Self-Determination in Times of Peace and Conflict: Internal Relations and Indigenous Diplomacies” convened scholars, diplomats, and a ...

Posted By Zaheerul Hassan Washington-based World Kashmir Awareness Forum (WKAF), launched a high-visibility digital advocacy campaign across New York City, deploying mobile LED advertising trucks carrying sharp and compelling messages urging the United Nations to implement its long-standing resolutions on Kashmir. The campaign coincided with the 78th anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution ...

Shared by Firoz Kamal Posted By Zaheerul Hassan The Pakistan Era During 200 years of British rule, there was only one university in East Bengal: the University of Dhaka. Even that, it is claimed, was opposed by Rabindranath Tagore and the influential circles in Kolkata. Even Dhaka University had less than one thousand students in 1947. The British made almost no development in East Bengal over nearly two ce ...

By Asif Haroon Pakistan has, once again, stepped into the global spotlight—this time not as a peripheral actor, but as a pivotal intermediary in one of the most volatile geopolitical confrontations of the present era. Under the leadership of Field Marshal Asim Munir, Pakistan’s military establishment has emerged as a key interlocutor between Washington and Tehran. Within a remarkably short span, Islamabad a ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai If promises were meant to be broken, Kashmir would stand as their most tragic testament. Few regions in modern history have endured such a relentless pattern of pledges made, solemnly declared before the world, and then quietly abandoned. The story of Kashmir is not merely a territorial dispute—it is a chronicle of betrayal stretching across empires, governments, and international ins ...

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai The world breathed a collective sigh of relief when a potentially catastrophic confrontation in the Gulf was paused at the eleventh hour. Hundreds of millions across Iran and neighboring states were spared the horrors of imminent conflict, and billions of dollars’ worth of infrastructure and human livelihood were saved—at least for now—by a two-week ceasefire between the United States ...