May 2025 is a month that will never be forgotten in the annals of history, in particular South Asia’s memory. India made a strategic mistake of attacking Pakistan, that too on a false pretext and as a result faced a humiliating defeat on all fronts. Pakistan waged such a befitting response that compelled India to…
Reclaiming Sovereignty – Part IV Expanding on the May 2026 diagnostic, this ten-part series probes Pakistan’s energy fragility throughstructural and technical lenses. Parts I–III diagnosed the capacity trap, rewired the grid, and paved the road.Part IV addresses the engine room: floating solar on reservoirs, pumped hydro storage, and the waterenergy-food nexus that together deliver sovereign,…
“Dedicate yourself to SPORTS Promotion, for when you and I are gone, leadership will go into the hands of Youth, and Youth is our wealth, a raw material that must be hammered into shape, into burnished steel to strive and smite in Defence.”- M.A. JINNAH (April 1948, Pakistan Olympics Association) AbstractPakistan stands at a critical…
Opportunity, Obligation or Strategic Ambiguity? “The US-Led Middle East Order is over. The Makkah Agreement proves it”.Council on Foreign Relations (US) Let me begin this paper by acknowledging that the appropriate time for public critique of a government decision is normally before that decision is made, while the matter remains under contemplation and consideration. At…
“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when transactions of their ruler may be concealed from them” Patrick Henry. The National Security Policy (NSP) is finally out. Forty-Eight pages of the document were made public. Normally national policy is a public document and is rarely kept confidential. Quis custodiet ipsos…
An evolving synopsis from Mideast to South Asia Franz Kafka, a German-Jewish Czech writer of repute, was quite farsighted as he penned an unfinished fiction story about a badger in his novel ‘The Burrow’. Therein, in his imaginary description, he noted that the polyphyletic creature becomes obsessed with securing itself against imagined threats. While not…
Where Pakistan Stands “Every serious economy has settled on the same three skills. Pakistan has picked the right fight. It has not yet won it.” A quiet war is underway. It has no soldiers. It has no borders in the usual sense. It is fought with training budgets, visa categories, and university curricula. The prize…
Pakistan, China and the Global South in the AI Era A five-day summit in Islamabad brought startups and investors from Pakistan and China into the same room. The more consequential story is what it reveals about a wider strategic choice: whether the Global South helps write the rules of the AI era, or simply lives…
Sehrish Mustafa (Moderator): Esteemed delegates from China and Pakistan. On behalf of Pathfinder Group, it is my great honor to welcome you all today to Day 2 of the Global South Innovation and Investment Summit 2026 at AmaaniBagh. Following the remarkable success of yesterday’s inaugural sessions, where we brought together industry leaders, investors, development partners,…
Pathfinder CITADEL and OIC COMSTECH co-organized the 2-day Global South Innovation & Investment Summit 2026 at AmaaniBagh Angoori in Islamabad, bringing together policymakers, technologists, and business leaders to advance economic cooperation across the Global South. The summit drew a distinguished gathering of delegates, including a 15-member delegation from the Commercial Cultural Association of China (CCAC),…
