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The Meticulously Crafted Trap by Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal The situation in the Gulf has grown steadily clearer of late, and with it the realisation that neither Israel nor its principal patron, the United States, can secure their wider aims unless Saudi Arabia is at length brought into line. Direct persuasion having failed to draw Riyadh into recognition of the Abraham Accords, both parties appear to have resorted to more circuitous means of tightening the noose. What once seemed a confused picture of regional tension now reveals a deliberate design intended…

66 Years of Stability Undone by Unilateral Abeyance By Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal Water is the essence of life, and it is through its presence that the world achieves prosperity and progress. Nature has provided numerous sources of water; while vast reserves exist underground, rivers—whose courses were charted by nature itself—remain the most vital source. Securing river water was a challenge for Pakistan from the very beginning, as India frequently attempted to obstruct the flow of these natural waterways. To resolve this issue, the Indus Waters Treaty was signed between Pakistan…

Surveillance Without a Warrant: Legal Experts Say the Fourth Amendment Is the Last Line of Defence By Tariq Khan | Pakistan Chronicle | 16 September 2026 SAN FRANCISCO — American Community Media convened a three-hour media briefing at the World Affairs Center on 312 Sutter Street on 10 September, bringing together attorneys, researchers and civil liberties advocates to examine what organisers called the stealth chapter in the war on immigrants: an immigration enforcement apparatus now built on facial recognition, drones, licence plate readers and artificial intelligence, operating largely outside judicial…

Politics of Possession by Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal There are certain facts buried deep within the annals of history that have been deliberately veiled, whether from motives of political expediency or to shield the interests of powerful parties, under such dense accumulations of silence that even the most diligent searcher after truth might labour long without bringing them fully to light. Yet time, that relentless uncoverer of hidden things, will not forever suffer such concealments to endure. Beneath these obscured realities often lie the misdeeds of individuals or of states—acts that…

Super El Niño Bears Down: What a Historic Pacific Warming Means for Texas, California and Beyond By Tariq Khan | Pakistan Chronicle | August 21, 2026 A Copernicus Climate Change Service forecast map, built on the ECMWF SEAS5 model, shows sea-surface temperature anomalies exceeding 2°C across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific by October 2026. (Image courtesy of Daniel Swain / American Community Media) HOUSTON — For Tariq Khan, publisher of Pakistan Chronicle and South Asian Chronicle, extreme weather in Texas is not an abstraction. Nearly a decade after Hurricane…