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Visa bans, detained players, deadly heat, and a president fixing a red card for the home team. The press spent 2022 condemning Qatar for less. In 2022 you could not open a sports page without

The new family code, the burning girls, and the silence the regime depends on. Their names are Khoshbakht, Saliha, Fawzia, Benazir, Farzana, and Nazia. They are between six and ten years old. They live in

Ali Murtaza Jameel had taken his wife and two daughters to Quetta, and late at night he started the drive home to Karachi. Google Maps offered a shortcut. It pulled the car off the national

By Friday evening, members of the Iranian delegation at Bürgenstock had a private message for us: watch the news. Expect movement. They had been asked to stay put. More technical staff had been summoned. From

On the warriors the world chose to admire, the women it chose not to see, and the legend that made both possible. Somewhere in Kabul, a girl of nine is legally marriageable. Her silence, under

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

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In the press freedom literature, the two most documented cases of organised digital violence against women journalists in South Asia carry the names Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) and Gharidah Farooqi (@GFarooqi). The Coalition for Women in

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Strategic Assessment Paper · Releases Monday 22 June
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.