Dr Tariq Rahim

South Asia can’t afford another silent decade
- By Dr Tariq Rahim
- July 19, 2025
FOR nearly a decade, South Asia’s leading regional forum, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), has remained silent. What was supposed to be…

240 million and rising: The cost of inaction
- By Dr Tariq Rahim
- July 9, 2025
THERE is a quiet alarm beneath Pakistan’s political theatre—unseen in headlines, unheard in speeches, but loud in the numbers. This is a crisis the country’s…

The politics of power and pretence
- By Dr Tariq Rahim
- June 27, 2025
TEL Aviv’s June 13 attack on Iran was a geopolitical farce — one that masqueraded as strategy but was, at its core, the erratic outburst…