Pakistan has long presented itself as a leading voice in the Muslim world. Founded in 1947 as a homeland for Muslims of British India, it has over the decades sought to project itself as a champion of Islamic solidarity, a defender of Muslim causes and a strategic partner for other Muslim-majority states. But in 2024-25 the landscape of Pakistan’s relations with other Islamic nations is increasingly shaped by tension, complexity and paradox by the interplay of border issues,

The ideology of ‘Kashmiriyat’ is not as strong as it was with the previous generations.

If you roll a boulder down on others, it will crush you instead.

By Javed Beigh The Kashmir of today is much different from Kashmir of early 1990s both in terms of our defense preparedness, manning of...

In 1988–89, after the US-backed Islamist mujahideen drove out the Soviet Union from Afghanistan, some of their mercenaries and arms were...