Pakistan, the Afghan dispute and the politics of attribution

Pakistan, the Afghan dispute and the politics of attribution

Aug 15, 2026

Pak US Post enters the Afghanistan question at an awkward juncture. Washington no longer possesses the expeditionary architecture that once made Afghanistan the organising principle of its South Asian policy, while Islamabad is confronting a security environment in which militant violence, refugee pressures,

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Washington Recalculates Pakistan’s Place in a Post Afghanistan Order

Washington Recalculates Pakistan’s Place in a Post Afghanistan Order

Aug 15, 2026

Pak US POST confronts a relationship increasingly governed by portfolio logic rather than the strategic maximalism that characterised the post 9/11 period. Washington no longer appears to regard Pakistan through the singular prism of Afghanistan, nor does Islamabad possess the coercive or geopolitical

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Beyond naval access, Pakistan’s maritime offer to Washington

Beyond naval access, Pakistan’s maritime offer to Washington

Aug 15, 2026

Pak US Post must treat the Arabian Sea not as a peripheral naval theatre but as a consequential resilience zone connecting Pakistan’s ports, Gulf energy flows, Red Sea shipping, commercial insurance markets, undersea communications and the wider western Indian Ocean. Pakistan’s strategic proposition

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Diaspora Capital and Shifting Transnational Influence Architectures in Washington

Diaspora Capital and Shifting Transnational Influence Architectures in Washington

Jun 10, 2026

In the contemporary political ecology of the United States, diaspora formations have ceased to operate as passive sociological extensions of immigrant settlement and have instead evolved into structured nodes of influence that intersect with legislative behavior, campaign financing circuits, and policy interpretation mechanisms

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Green Technology and Energy Transition: Pakistan-U.S. Cooperation for Sustainable Development

Green Technology and Energy Transition: Pakistan-U.S. Cooperation for Sustainable Development

Apr 2, 2026

Pakistan’s energy and environmental landscape has reached a point of strategic urgency where systemic vulnerabilities intersect with global technological and climate imperatives. Persistent electricity shortages, reliance on imported fossil fuels, and escalating climate threats constrain economic growth and regional leverage. At the same

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