Russia is trying to sever Ukraine’s access to the Black Sea, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday, following days of ramped-up airstrikes on ports and energy facilities in the Odesa region and a critical route to the Moldova border. Russia has unleashed an almost continuous drone and missile campaign against a region where ports key […]
Although sacked judge Tariq Mahmood Jahangiri retains the right to appeal before the newly established Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) against the Islamabad High Court (IHC) order that removed him from office, the prevailing circumstances indicate that his prospects of securing substantive relief in the near future are slim. Since the passage of the 26th Constitutional […]
Pakistan’s Chief of Defense Forces’ (CDF’s) recent visit to Libya and his meeting with the Commander-in-Chief of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces is creating and reinforcing the optics that Pakistan’s military continues to be the primary foreign policy actor. However, seen pragmatically, CDF’s visit to Libya and his engagement with the Libyan military leader reflect […]
Another day, another judgement, another sentence. But is it really Imran Khan who is at the receiving end? On Saturday the accountability court handed down seventeen-year sentences to the PTI founder and his wife Bushra Bibi. In the case known as Toshakhana, the prosecution argued that the former First Couple had under-invoiced a gift from […]
Long before Machiavelli, the Indian strategist Kautilya articulated a blunt theory of power in the Arthashastra. Writing in the fourth century BCE, he rejected the idea that moral restraint governs state behaviour. Power, he argued, dictates norms; ethics follow advantage. Rulers, in his view, often preach moderation not because they practice it, but because they […]