IRAN’S war has lessons for Pakistan. Can Iran survive half a century of technological and trade embargoes and infrastructural bombardment? While GDP and foreign reserves are standard metrics of surv...
WHILE the United States continues to dismantle the international climate architecture it once helped build, wars from Ukraine to the Middle East are generating unaccounted emissions, consuming the fis...
INDIA and Pakistan are already paying a heavy price for not trading directly. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has created a new urgency for transboundary trade and energy cooperation. It has simpl...
IN September 2025, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif declared a climate emergency. Most ministries ignored it. The government lurched from one fiscal crisis to the next, eyes fixed on the IMF programme, i...
THE assault comes from multiple directions, each more brazen than the last. Consider what happened barely a stone’s throw from Parliament House itself: while legislators debated inside, Shakarparian...
AMERICAN President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the UNFCCC has created a crisis for global multilateralism and international climate governance. The challenge is paradoxical: protecting ...
THIS new year, I’ve made a simple promise to myself — to cut back on chai, cheeni and ghee. It is not just about my own health — though my waistline surely needs it. It is a stand against habits...
ALTHOUGH the International Court of Justice’s July 2025 advisory opinion on climate change was a watershed moment in climate action, it received limited attention from Pakistan’s legal and climate...