Foreign Affairs & Geopolitics

Pakistan's place in a multi-polar world — China, the Gulf, the West, and what comes next.

42 episodes

Jun 30, 2026

Simon Dixon: the US empire is being wound down by design

with Simon Dixon

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59:04

Jun 5, 2026

A 22-year-old Pakistani's road map to space by 2050

with Hassan Mossin

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1:07:48

May 6, 2026

Pakistan's hybrid system has run out of foreign rent

with Yasir Ahmed Soomro

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52:36

Apr 22, 2026

The oil price on your screen is not the price Pakistan pays

with Osama

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1:19:56

Apr 14, 2026

Pakistan is energy abundant. It just runs a distribution problem.

with Farooq Tirmizi

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1:07:31

Apr 10, 2026

Pakistan finally has leverage. Can it actually use it?

with Ali Khizar

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1:38:12

Apr 9, 2026

Pakistan as a middle power in the new world order

with Faisal Aftab

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53:16

Apr 8, 2026

Pakistan goes crisis to crisis because it keeps printing money

with Yusuf M Farooq

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53:34

Apr 3, 2026

The strait of Hormuz toll is good politics, bad law

with Yasir Abbas

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1:01:52

Apr 2, 2026

Pakistan's elite never had to deliver — that's about to change

with Javed Hassan

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1:40:51

Jan 8, 2025

Dubai is not banning Pakistanis. Pakistanis are getting themselves banned.

with Asim Swati

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1:32:30

Dec 11, 2024

Inside Bangladesh's revolution, told by a Dhaka University student

with Mamunur Rashid

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1:12:33

Sep 25, 2024

Russia, China, and the world Pakistan keeps misreading

with Dr. Muhammad Ali Ehsan

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1:03:18

Sep 6, 2024

Pakistan is selling its crown jewels at throwaway prices

with Ali Khizar

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1:34:40

Aug 9, 2024

Pakistan's ruling system has fire under its feet

with Adeel Malik

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1:39:35

Jun 28, 2024

Pakistan is in coercive economic diplomacy — and the elite has no foresight

with Adeel Malik

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1:15:37

Nov 24, 2023

Israel is no longer untouchable — and the world order knows it

with Jehad Zafar

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1:19:30

Nov 10, 2023

The logistics of getting aid into Gaza and flooded Pakistan

with Hafiz ur Rehman

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1:34:42

Oct 25, 2023

How Tecno built Pakistan's largest phone factory

with Adeel Tahir & Ali Raza

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1:52:03

Oct 18, 2023

How the West actually rose, and why the Muslim decline is a myth

with Shershah Khan

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1:29:59

Sep 29, 2023

The seventy good years might have been the aberration

with Zaigham Haque

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1:52:51

Aug 25, 2023

From IT help desk to CTO of the Middle East's top coffee app

with Shahood Siddiqui

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1:26:54

Aug 23, 2023

Buying a second passport is legal, and a crisis doubles the line

with Talha Bin Saleem

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2:04:42

Aug 18, 2023

Pakistan can fix its own fundamentals — the reason it won't

with Junaid Iqbal

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1:48:41

Aug 2, 2023

What web3 actually means once you strip out the money

with Talha Bin Afzal

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1:54:09

Jul 26, 2023

Why the dollar isn't going anywhere, and Pakistan isn't defaulting

with Farooq Tirmizi

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Mar 15, 2023

The EU Ambassador who grew up translating for her refugee grandmother

with Dr. Riina Kionka

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Jul 18, 2022

Why Pakistan won't just buy gas from Russia

with Syed Ali Zia Jaffery

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54:26

Mar 21, 2022

What Pakistan actually wants from the OIC conference

with Asim Iftikhar Ahmad and Rizwan Saeed Sheikh

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1:17:19

Jan 24, 2022

Gilgit-Baltistan is the only region fighting to integrate

with Yasir Abbas

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1:38:34

Jan 14, 2022

Reporting from inside the warzone with Sumaira Khan

with Sumaira Khan

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1:23:03

Oct 22, 2021

Why the next world order will be won on economy, not military

with Hamza

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56:21

Sep 13, 2021

Afghanistan's $10 billion is being held by the country that signed its peace deal

with Raoof Hasan

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1:02:17

Aug 27, 2021

Afghanistan is a once-in-a-generation realignment, not a news cycle

with Arsalan Khan

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57:10

Aug 16, 2021

Why the Taliban took Afghanistan in days, not months

with Hussain Nadim

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43:01

Aug 4, 2021

Afghanistan, the Taliban, and the cost of seeing each other through state eyes

with Shahrzad Kofi & Asad Khosha

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1:02:49

Jul 16, 2021

What's really at stake as the Taliban take Afghanistan

with Salman Javed

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45 min

Jul 2, 2021

Hussain Nadim on rebuilding a think tank from inside the system, the great-game read of Afghanistan, and why Joe Biden isn't calling

with Dr. Hussain Nadim

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59:01

May 7, 2021

Peace, Polarization, and Pakistan's Turning Point: A Conversation with Dr. Adnan Rafiq

with Dr. Adnan Rafiq

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1:22:41

Apr 23, 2021

Afghanistan's cycle of conflict: history, power vacuums, and Pakistan's strategic dilemma

with Salman Javed

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51:17

Ep 56 · Feb 8, 2021

What actually happened in 1971

with Farhat Hussein

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1:35:20

Sep 1, 2020

Imran Khan on Pakistan's political crisis, foreign policy, and the road ahead

with Imran Khan

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