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Why Pakistan Does Not Recognize Israel: A Brief History

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We Finally Counted It

Op-Ed: The King Of Medicine: How a British-Pakistani Finally Won the Premier League

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June 18, 2026

Dispatch

A Complete Guide To The Negotiators On Both Sides

Two delegations, two of the world’s most heavily armed adversaries, are now in the same city for the first time since this war began. Somewhere in Islamabad this morning, they will attempt something they have

Society & Identity

Op-Ed: Not Arabs. Not Indians. Just Pakistanis.

A country the world has never quite understood is doing what the world’s institutions could not. Here is what the world has been missing. On Wednesday evening, the State Department took the White House podium

Geopolitics

The Same Agreement, Two Different Documents

The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding will be signed in Geneva on Friday. Both the United States and Iran have confirmed it. Both say it ends the war. What they cannot agree on is what the

Geopolitics

The Spoiler: Why the Islamabad MOU Is Not Yet Safe

The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding has five vulnerabilities. Benjamin Netanyahu knows where each of them is. The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding was announced on June 15. It will be signed on June 19 in Geneva.

Geopolitics

The Leaked MOU vs the Official Text

On June 16, Bloomberg published what it described as the full draft of the Islamabad MOU. Iran’s negotiating team dismissed it as inaccurate, specifically citing the first clause and the Strait of Hormuz provisions. On

Strategic Assessment Paper · Releases Monday 22 June

Counting the May 2025 Conflict

A source-based financial and strategic accounting of the May 2025 conflict — Operation Sindoor and Marka-e-Haq. Forty pages, seventy-five cited sources, and four tiers of evidence, sequenced so the reader starts inside India’s own admissions before a single Pakistani source is introduced. It documents the aircraft losses, the cost asymmetry, and the strategic balance that emerged.