Pakistan’s Agricultural Might: From National Breadbasket to Global Supplier
Pakistan’s greatest economic strength may not lie beneath its soil, but in the soil itself. From the irrigated plains of Punjab and Sindh to the fruit belts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, the mountain valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan and the Arabian Sea coast, Pakistan can produce temperate, subtropical and tropical crops; grain, fruit, fibre, livestock,…
Mehrgarh: The Cradle Before the Cities
An Unlikely Discovery on the Kachi Plain In 1974, a French archaeological team led by Jean-François Jarrige and Catherine Jarrige began excavating a site at the foot of the Bolan Pass in Balochistan, Pakistan. They could scarcely have known they were uncovering one of the most important prehistoric sites in South Asia. The Mehrgarh…
Papering Over the Fissures: The Illusion of Consensus in an Expanded BRICS
The eighteenth BRICS summit closed in New Delhi with a joint declaration in hand, a result that India’s government has presented as a diplomatic triumph. Given that two earlier ministerial meetings this year had failed to produce any agreed text at all, the achievement is not trivial. Yet a closer reading of the New…
The Indispensable Guardian: Pakistan and the Defence of Muslim Sovereignty in South Asia
In the fractured geopolitical landscape of 2026, a single question has moved from the margins of strategic discourse to its very centre: who speaks for the Muslim world’s sovereign interests when they are threatened by the expansionist ambitions of regional powers? The answer, increasingly, is Pakistan. From the negotiating rooms of Islamabad to the…
