Opinion - Geo News https://www.geo.tv/ Latest Opinion news and updates from Geo.tv Wed, 13 May 2026 22:14:23 +05:00 en-US <![CDATA[Beyond Operation Sindoor]]> ]]> The recent essays by TCA Raghavan and Sharat Sabharwal are important not because they break new ground, but because they reveal the evolving anxieties, contradictions,...]]> <![CDATA[Surviving India's water war]]> ]]> One year ago, India launched Operation Sindoor — 23 minutes of precision strikes deep...]]> <![CDATA[Compute is the new oil]]> ]]> Oil. Natural gas. Rare earths. Each one followed the...]]> <![CDATA[From Marqa-e-Haq to Marqa-e-Taraqqi]]> ]]> Marqa-e-Haq was a defining moment in Pakistan’s journey. It was a...]]> <![CDATA[Memories of May]]> ]]> With the celebrations this week of the first anniversary of Marka-e-Haq, a resounding triumph of Pakistan's defence forces against an unprovoked attack by India, one more event of significance has been added in the annals of...]]> <![CDATA[Investing in mothers]]> ]]> During my gynaecology residency, I encountered a mother whose postpartum depression left...]]> <![CDATA[Middle power or hard state?]]> ]]> As the world waited with anticipation, and Islamabad was under siege with heightened security, Pakistan...]]> <![CDATA[Moment of pride]]> ]]> As Pakistan marks one year of Operation Bunyanum Marsoos, it is a moment of reflection, resolve and national...]]> <![CDATA[Markets beyond geography, policies need to catch up]]> ]]> The global financial system was not designed to exclude the developing world. It was designed for the markets it already knew. The result...]]> <![CDATA[The May 2025 aftermath]]> ]]> One year to the May 2025 war between India and Pakistan, the...]]> <![CDATA[West Asia after the war]]> ]]> West Asia, specifically, and the world generally, is now witnessing moves towards the end of the US-Israel kinetic war of aggression...]]> <![CDATA[Promise, paradox, persistent neglect]]> ]]> Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest yet least developed province, sits atop a geological treasure trove that could transform the country’s...]]> <![CDATA[Building bridges for peace]]> ]]> On May 6, 2018, in the heart of Narowal, a young man raised a weapon and fired at me.

For many years, I had spoken about extremism as a national challenge, a poison that...]]> <![CDATA[The Marka-e-Haq win]]> ]]> The 72-hour armed conflict named Marka-e-Haq was another finest hour in Pakistan's history after 6th September 1965, when the entire nation...]]> <![CDATA[A society to reinvent]]> ]]> Somehow, there is this sense of a pause in the Iran war as what was supposed to be a two-week ceasefire has completed three. Or call it a deadlock. Perhaps Pakistan’s quiet diplomacy is setting the...]]> <![CDATA[Was MQM leader Azeem Ahmed Tariq aware of his fate in 1988?]]> ]]> Only recently, a ‘letter’ of MQM’s first chairman, the late Azeem Ahmad Tariq, was found, dated January 8, 1988, a few years after he got married and five years before his...]]> <![CDATA[The limits of American power]]> ]]> Paradoxically, the US-Israel attacks on Iran that started on February 28,...]]> <![CDATA[Beyond the exit]]> ]]> The recent announcement by the UAE regarding its exit...]]> <![CDATA[Committed to peace]]> ]]> In an...]]> <![CDATA[The strategic blind spot]]> ]]> When Admiral Samuel Paparo, Commander of US Indo-Pacific Command, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee, he delivered a...]]>