Kamal Mustafa

S&P raised Pakistan's credit rating last week, from B minus to B, with a stable outlook. Rating changes are usually background noise. This one is different.

he said , plainly, that people are working to make Balochistan look worse than it is. He's right to call this out. Every insurgency fights on two fronts.

I have never understood why we expect one government sitting in Karachi to run both the busiest port city in the country and cotton fields six hours away in Larkana using the same rulebook.

I Believe the Makkah Pact Proves Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye Are Stronger Together

Nobody remembers defence pacts. They get a headline, a photo of two men shaking hands, and then they disappear into the same drawer as every other memorandum of understanding.

India spent years cultivating a quiet partnership with the Afghan Taliban, betting that a regime desperate for legitimacy would be willing to do what New Delhi could not do openly.

I kept waiting for the unity argument to survive contact with a spreadsheet. It never did. Every defence of keeping Sindh whole is dressed in heritage: the river, the language, the ancestors.

Instead of quietly moving on, New Delhi made what looks less like a documentary and more like a war movie.

I did not expect an Indian vlogger to make my case for me. By most accounts, he traveled into Afghanistan's Kunar province chasing content: mountain vistas, a Taliban escort, the kind of footage that performs well online.

Ask someone in rural Sindh how long it took them to fix a land record, get a birth certificate, or license a small shop, and the answer is almost