From Strategic Depth to Strategic Liability: The C...
When Kabul fell in August 2021, Western capitals watched with dread. Islamabad barely hid its satisfaction. American transport planes lifted off from Hamid Karz...
Nida Amir Afridi
Nida Amir Afridi writes for Minute mirror and has covered 7 stories. The most recent is “From Strategic Depth to Strategic Liability: The C...”.
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The Calm Before the Storm: West Asia Braces for Ro...
Nobody in the region believes the quiet will last. Warships are moving, messages are passing between capitals in lowered voices, and missiles are already crossi...
Israel’s Election Changes the Arithmetic, No...
Israelis went to the polls on Tuesday, for the first time since the Hamas-led attacks of October 2023 and came away with a result that pleases nobody. Neither P...
The Limits of Mediation in an Era of Weakened Dete...
On 17 June, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif stood in Islamabad and held the signed memorandum for the cameras, and a lot of people, honestly, exhaled. The paper p...
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The Hierarchy of Historical Grief: Re-evaluating t...
Victors write history, people say. That’s too tidy. What the powerful actually do is curate memory, deciding which wounds get monuments and which get footnotes....
The Makkah Pact and the New Middle Eastern Axis
The immediate coverage of the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement was theatrical. Headlines raced to christen a new “Muslim NATO”, pundits queued to pronounce a seis...
How ‘unrestricted warfare’ is reshapin...
Pick up your phone. Glance at the thermostat on the wall, or the price of tomatoes at the supermarket. Ordinary things, you would say: the small conveniences of...