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Why intellectual capital is the first line of security — and why intellectuals must engage in Pakistan's defence.
In an era of hybrid warfare and information dominance, the battle for Pakistan's future is being fought not only on physical frontlines but in the realm of ideas. Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood argues that the nation's greatest vulnerability lies not in weapons shortages, but in the intellectual disengagement of its educated class from matters of national security...
Examining how executive ambitions clash with binding global legal frameworks and multilateral commitments.
CPEC's second phase promises transformative infrastructure — but at what diplomatic and economic cost?
Palestinian poets and their global allies respond to the ongoing humanitarian crisis through verse.
International English · Monthly · Lahore
اردو ادبی ماہنامہ · Monthly Urdu Literary
As American unipolarity fades and Chinese assertiveness grows, Pakistan stands at a unique crossroads of civilisational alliance-building.
Pakistan's recurring IMF programs reflect deeper structural issues — a scholar's perspective on how to break the cycle.
How digital publishing is both threatening and revitalising one of the world's great literary traditions.
Pakistan's first magazine on international affairs — geopolitics, defence, diplomacy, and global culture
Pakistan's foremost international affairs magazine — covering geopolitics, defence, diplomacy, economics, and global culture from a Pakistani and South Asian perspective. Published monthly from Lahore by the Pakistan Writers' Foundation.
Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood on why intellectual capital is the first line of national security.
How executive ambitions clash with binding global legal frameworks and multilateral commitments.
CPEC's second phase — transformative infrastructure at what diplomatic and economic cost?
Adab-e-Alia — Pakistan's premier Urdu literary monthly, celebrating poetry, fiction, and scholarly criticism
A prestigious Urdu literary monthly dedicated to poetry, fiction, criticism, and the preservation of Pakistan's rich literary heritage. A home for emerging and established voices in Urdu letters, published from Lahore by the Pakistan Writers' Foundation.
Two flagship magazines covering international affairs and Urdu literary excellence
Pakistan's first and foremost international affairs magazine — covering geopolitics, defence, diplomacy, economics, and global culture from a Pakistani and South Asian perspective. Published monthly from Lahore.
A prestigious Urdu literary monthly dedicated to poetry, fiction, criticism, and the preservation of Pakistan's rich literary heritage. A home for emerging and established voices in Urdu letters.
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Pakistan's Defence Begins in the Mind. Cover story by Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood plus Trump's Desires & Int. Law, Game Changer Project, Poems for Gaza.
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Monthly Urdu literary magazine featuring ghazals, short stories, criticism, and interviews with Pakistan's finest literary voices.
4 quarterly issues of Pakistan's premier Urdu literary magazine. PKR 1,500 per copy × 4 issues/yr.
A curated annual collection of the best defence and strategy essays published in World Post throughout 2025.
A landmark PWF publication compiling essays on education, intellectual tradition, and national development by Pakistan's leading scholars.
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As American unipolarity fades and Chinese assertiveness grows, Pakistan stands at a unique crossroads of civilisational alliance-building. The old frameworks — non-alignment, strategic ambiguity — no longer serve a nation that must navigate simultaneous relationships with Washington, Beijing, and Riyadh. This essay argues for a doctrine of principled strategic autonomy, grounded in intellectual clarity rather than reactive manoeuvering.
Pakistan's recurring IMF programs reflect deeper structural issues that neither conditionality nor short-term relief can resolve. This paper examines the political economy of Pakistan's chronic balance-of-payments crises, the institutional failures that perpetuate them, and a roadmap toward genuine fiscal sovereignty — one that requires not merely policy reform, but a transformation of the state's relationship with productive capital.
The international community's response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza has exposed a fundamental contradiction at the heart of the rules-based international order: laws exist, but enforcement depends entirely on power. This essay traces how legal mechanisms designed to protect civilian populations have been systematically subordinated to geopolitical calculations, and what this means for smaller states like Pakistan that rely on international law as a shield.
How digital publishing is simultaneously threatening and revitalising one of the world's great literary traditions. The Urdu diaspora — spread across the UK, North America, and the Gulf — represents an untapped readership whose engagement with the language has been mediated by digital screens rather than printed pages. This paper examines the implications for literary culture, canon formation, and the economics of Urdu publishing.
The second phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor promises transformative infrastructure investment — but critics argue the terms extract more than they deliver. This forum essay examines the CPEC 2.0 framework through the lens of economic sovereignty, industrial development, and the long-term implications of China's Belt and Road model for a nation still struggling to industrialise its own economy.
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