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A young person can try to study hard and obtain a degree, go looking for work and obey the rules and still have no prospects in the future. This frustration has been emerging in anti-government protests all over Europe and in India. These demonstrations are not all a single movement and Gen Z is not…
Emergency powers may be constitutional in form. Whether they are proportionate, time-limited and reversible will decide whether they are accepted as security policy or read as political exclusion. Key points What happened The federal government imposed the measures after President Zardari approved the cabinet’s recommendation, under Article 232, which provides for an emergency, and Article…
When the United States enters a conflict, the question is never only tactical. It is also constitutional, political and moral. The confrontation with Iran has once again raised a familiar but unresolved problem: who gets to decide when the United States is at war, how far military action can go, and when a conflict should…
The Baloch National Question and Pakistan’s Digital Media Narrative Balochistan is contested twice: first as a political territory, and then as a story. For the Pakistani state, the conflict is commonly framed through sovereignty, security and the threat of externally supported militancy. For Baloch activists, it is framed through political exclusion, enforced disappearance, economic injustice…
We are entering an arms race with no rulebook. Unlike nuclear weapons, which required rare materials and immense state capacity to develop, military AI is being built largely with commercial technology — the same machine learning techniques powering consumer apps are being repurposed for targeting systems and battlefield analysis. That accessibility should worry us more…
For most of modern history, military strategy has rested on a simple constraint: human decision-making takes time, and time creates room for restraint, negotiation, and de-escalation. Artificial intelligence is quietly eroding that constraint. Autonomous targeting systems, AI-assisted early-warning networks, and algorithmic threat assessment are compressing the decision cycle in modern conflict from hours to seconds….