Geopolitics
Pakistan brokered the pause in the Iran war, sits on the Board of Peace alongside Israel, and holds a defence commitment to Turkey. An explainer on which of those the vote reaches.
Geopolitics
Two convictions are keeping him in prison, both under appeal. Two more stand with their sentences suspended and their appeals undecided. Two were set aside on acquittal, and a United Nations body has found his detention arbitrary.
Geopolitics
For twelve years his power rested on a single claim: that he stood above criticism. Last week a generation of teenagers shouted his name in the street and the claim did not survive it.
Geopolitics
Colombo, Dhaka and Kathmandu each reached a point where a leader could have conceded something small but chose to clear the street instead.
Dispatch
Fawad Chaudhry on the organisation Westminster hosts while demanding Islamabad take back its convicted offenders. Aisha Ali Khan on why deporting Shabir Ahmed would leave him unwatched.
The argument in one line: the only thing that ever really limited tyranny was the cost of watching everyone, and artificial intelligence has just removed…
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