Engineer Khurram Dastgir-Khan

Engineer Khurram Dastgir-Khan

  • The Indus runs through it

    Highway being built by the BRO passes by the confluence of the Indus and Zanskar rivers in the Ladakh region, India. — Reuters/File“We will...

  • The Indus runs through it

    The Indus runs through it

    Highway being built by the BRO passes by the confluence of the Indus and Zanskar rivers in the Ladakh region, India. — Reuters/File“We will...

  • Seizing the strategic moment

    Pakistan Air Force J-10 fighter jets fly past during the national day parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2025. —AFPThe nation has witnessed a...

  • Seizing the strategic moment

    Seizing the strategic moment

    Pakistan Air Force J-10 fighter jets fly past during the national day parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2025. —AFPThe nation has witnessed a...

  • Modi madness at the third pole

    Modi madness at the third pole

    Modi’s gambit to take war to globe’s third-largest concentration of ice is madness

  • Pakistan’s recidivist terrorism challenge

    Pakistan’s recidivist terrorism challenge

    Terrorism is rampaging across western Pakistan and, left unchecked, will consume rest of country

  • America’s Afghan congeries

    America’s Afghan congeries

    Report insists that Afghan Taliban are on US Specially Designated Global Terrorist list and thus subject to sanctions

  • The coming Trumpistan

    The coming Trumpistan

    Trump’s frustration with the Pakistan government manifested as economic pressure

  • A malignant appeasement

    A malignant appeasement

    Understanding between PML-N and PPP to unite despite their differences is one bright spot

  • South Asia without India

    South Asia without India

    Large swathes of Indian territory are still pre-modern and riven by religious, ethnic, and caste fault lines

  • Defeating fascism

    Defeating fascism

    Fascists have endless money for media and legal shenanigans; possess most sophisticated propaganda machine

  • Nemesis over America

    Nemesis over America

    US still leads world in military spending and ability to project military power across globe

  • Pakistan’s zero-sum strategic dilemma

    Pakistan’s zero-sum strategic dilemma

    Many strategic traps await Islamabad where it might be forced to choose between urgent needs and long-term imperatives

  • A menace to democracy

    A menace to democracy

    As in the past, so today in a complex garb: Pakistan’s judiciary is a menace to democracy

  • What to do with India?

    What to do with India?

    Results of recent Indian elections have laid bare Hindutva’s weaknesses masked by GDP growth

  • Afghanistan without illusions

    Afghanistan without illusions

    All attempts to make Afghanistan our backyard and appease Afghanistan have failed

  • How to solve the ‘bijli’ problem

    How to solve the ‘bijli’ problem

    Pakistanis demand cheap and plentiful electricity – everywhere all at once – and it is nowhere in sight

  • Resisting fascism

    Resisting fascism

    Gambits that compromised Pakistan’s sovereignty came thick and fast during the 2018-22 government

  • The coming fascism

    The coming fascism

    One also cannot pick and choose where election was fair if election was fair in one province for one particular party, it was free everywhere