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Engineer Khurram Dastgir-Khan
Engineer Khurram Dastgir-Khan

  • July 05, 2026

    Let them flow

    A view of Baglihar Dam, also known as Baglihar Hydroelectric Power...

  • August 28, 2025

    The Indus runs through it

    Highway being built by the BRO passes by the confluence of the Indus and...

  • August 13, 2025

    Seizing the strategic moment

    Pakistan Air Force J-10 fighter jets fly past during the national day...

  • May 01, 2025

    Modi madness at the third pole

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

  • March 24, 2025

    Pakistan’s recidivist terrorism challenge

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

  • February 27, 2025

    America’s Afghan congeries

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

  • January 28, 2025

    The coming Trumpistan

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

  • January 20, 2025

    A malignant appeasement

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

  • December 13, 2024

    South Asia without India

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

  • November 29, 2024

    Defeating fascism

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

  • November 22, 2024

    Nemesis over America

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

  • October 17, 2024

    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

  • August 22, 2024

    A menace to democracy

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

  • July 06, 2024

    What to do with India?

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

  • March 30, 2024

    Afghanistan without illusions

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

  • March 16, 2024

    How to solve the ‘bijli’ problem

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

  • February 24, 2024

    Resisting fascism

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

  • February 16, 2024

    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

  • October 21, 2023

    Nawaz Sharif’s re-redux

    Nawaz Sharif’s re-redux. x/MurtazaViewsNawaz Sharif is the proverbial...

  • November 10, 2022

    Pakistan’s energy transition

    Pakistan in 2022 became the canary in the mine of climate change. The...

  • April 02, 2022

    Salvaging statecraft

    Behold the wreckage. China irritated. Saudi Arabia annoyed. US...

  • February 09, 2022

    National security wordplay

    The writer is a member of the National Assembly. These are his personal...

  • November 24, 2021

    Sin of appeasement

    The bulldozing of legislation facilitating Indian spy-terrorist...

  • October 02, 2021

    The EVM heist

    0Not a single electronic voting machine was used in the general election...

  • September 20, 2021

    The continuing foreign policy catastrophe

    Appeasement of India, paralysis, vacillation, attack on diplomats, and...

  • March 30, 2021

    Reckoning with India

    It is not unusual for retired civil servants to reflect on the past. In a...

  • December 31, 2020

    Jinnah’s house is burning

    Declan Walsh’s ‘The Nine Lives of Pakistan’ augments a veritable...

  • April 23, 2020

    Mantel’s miracle: an appreciation

    Set in the court of English Tudor King Henry VIII in the years 1527-40...

  • June 03, 2019

    Reckoning with Modi’s India

    Four-fifths of all Indians who are Hindu brushed aside economic woes in...

  • February 01, 2019

    The comedians

    Life imitates art rarely, but in the land of the pure it does so...