Geopolitics
This explainer works through the files Pakistan brings to the high-level week of the 81st UN General Assembly, from the Gulf war it is mediating to the treaty India has walked away from, and sets out what a good week and a bad week would look like.
Geopolitics
Five weeks after signing, Pakistan is weighing strikes on the Houthis at Saudi request. An explainer on what the pact requires and what Islamabad has not decided.
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.
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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
The new instrument covers training, capacity building and border management, and carries no collective defence clause.
Geopolitics
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey have signed an agreement treating an attack on one as an attack on all. What it changes between Pakistan and India.
Geopolitics
The only thing that ever really limited tyranny was the cost of watching everyone. Artificial intelligence has just removed it.
Geopolitics
A cost-of-living protest was met with rifles and a blackout, and at the moment Pakistan finally looked like the stable one, it handed Delhi the only picture Delhi could not take for itself.
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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.
Geopolitics
Pakistan has won in The Hague and behaved by the book. India has lost in The Hague and rejected the verdict. What may not survive the encounter is the credibility of international law itself.
Geopolitics
A warm remark in a Swiss resort, an indispensable mediator, and the sixty days that will test whether personal bonds outlast institutional ones.
