Stories by Maleeha Lodhi
Pakistan faces two hot borders and an internal security challenge.
Updated 01 Dec, 2025 09:25am
It would be a mistake for Pakistan to send troops for the stabilisation force in Gaza.
Updated 24 Nov, 2025 09:19am
External overreach and internal underreach have long characterised the conduct of governments.
Updated 17 Nov, 2025 09:25am
Aggrandisement of power and manipulation of law neither makes a government secure nor guarantees its future.
Updated 10 Nov, 2025 09:03am
Powerful states and regional powers are using coercive power to try to bend other states to their will.
Updated 03 Nov, 2025 08:50am
Youth-led protests reflect anger at the abuse of power, corruption, nepotism and inequality.
Updated 27 Oct, 2025 09:23am
With a fragile ceasefire in place, the path to peace in Gaza is strewn with formidable obstacles.
Updated 20 Oct, 2025 09:13am
Domestic pressure on the Indian government could compel it to act recklessly.
Updated 13 Oct, 2025 08:54am
The hope is that this doesn’t become a lost opportunity for peace.
Updated 06 Oct, 2025 09:07am
At the heart of UN’s dysfunction lies the Security Council’s paralysis.
Updated 29 Sep, 2025 08:31am
The Pak-Saudi defence pact is another sign of shifting geopolitical dynamics and alignments.
Updated 22 Sep, 2025 08:57am
This year, Pakistan switched course from this purely coercive approach to a carrot-and-stick policy.
Updated 15 Sep, 2025 09:03am
SCO convened in the backdrop of Trump’s disruptive actions that accelerated geopolitical trends.
Updated 08 Sep, 2025 08:58am
A narrow elite, resistant to reform, prioritises its own interests over that of the people.
Updated 01 Sep, 2025 08:48am
Building durable stability requires addressing structural problems and overcoming fault lines.
Updated 25 Aug, 2025 08:48am
Washington and the self-proclaimed ‘man of peace’ are fully complicit in the catastrophic situation in Gaza.
Updated 18 Aug, 2025 09:33am
The US-India "strategic alignment" faces an uncertain and troubled future, for now.
Updated 11 Aug, 2025 09:05am
A systemic problem needs a systemic response and not patchwork reform.
Updated 04 Aug, 2025 10:00am
With use of military force and economic coercion dominating geopolitics does soft power still count?
Updated 28 Jul, 2025 09:11am
Israel’s forced displacement plan will create concentration camps and depopulate Gaza.
Updated 21 Jul, 2025 09:07am
