Foreign Affairs & Geopolitics
Pakistan's place in a multi-polar world — China, the Gulf, the West, and what comes next.
42 episodes
Simon Dixon: the US empire is being wound down by design
with Simon Dixon
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59:04 A 22-year-old Pakistani's road map to space by 2050
with Hassan Mossin
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1:07:48 Pakistan's hybrid system has run out of foreign rent
with Yasir Ahmed Soomro
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52:36 The oil price on your screen is not the price Pakistan pays
with Osama
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1:19:56 Pakistan is energy abundant. It just runs a distribution problem.
with Farooq Tirmizi
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1:07:31 Pakistan finally has leverage. Can it actually use it?
with Ali Khizar
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1:38:12 Pakistan as a middle power in the new world order
with Faisal Aftab
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53:16 Pakistan goes crisis to crisis because it keeps printing money
with Yusuf M Farooq
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53:34 The strait of Hormuz toll is good politics, bad law
with Yasir Abbas
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1:01:52 Pakistan's elite never had to deliver — that's about to change
with Javed Hassan
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1:40:51 Dubai is not banning Pakistanis. Pakistanis are getting themselves banned.
with Asim Swati
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1:32:30 Inside Bangladesh's revolution, told by a Dhaka University student
with Mamunur Rashid
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1:12:33 Russia, China, and the world Pakistan keeps misreading
with Dr. Muhammad Ali Ehsan
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1:03:18 Pakistan is selling its crown jewels at throwaway prices
with Ali Khizar
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1:34:40 Pakistan's ruling system has fire under its feet
with Adeel Malik
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1:39:35 Pakistan is in coercive economic diplomacy — and the elite has no foresight
with Adeel Malik
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1:15:37 Israel is no longer untouchable — and the world order knows it
with Jehad Zafar
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1:19:30 The logistics of getting aid into Gaza and flooded Pakistan
with Hafiz ur Rehman
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1:34:42 How Tecno built Pakistan's largest phone factory
with Adeel Tahir & Ali Raza
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1:52:03 How the West actually rose, and why the Muslim decline is a myth
with Shershah Khan
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1:29:59 The seventy good years might have been the aberration
with Zaigham Haque
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1:52:51 From IT help desk to CTO of the Middle East's top coffee app
with Shahood Siddiqui
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1:26:54 Buying a second passport is legal, and a crisis doubles the line
with Talha Bin Saleem
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2:04:42 Pakistan can fix its own fundamentals — the reason it won't
with Junaid Iqbal
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1:48:41 What web3 actually means once you strip out the money
with Talha Bin Afzal
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1:54:09 Why the dollar isn't going anywhere, and Pakistan isn't defaulting
with Farooq Tirmizi
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The EU Ambassador who grew up translating for her refugee grandmother
with Dr. Riina Kionka
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Why Pakistan won't just buy gas from Russia
with Syed Ali Zia Jaffery
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54:26 What Pakistan actually wants from the OIC conference
with Asim Iftikhar Ahmad and Rizwan Saeed Sheikh
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1:17:19 Gilgit-Baltistan is the only region fighting to integrate
with Yasir Abbas
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1:38:34 Reporting from inside the warzone with Sumaira Khan
with Sumaira Khan
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1:23:03 Why the next world order will be won on economy, not military
with Hamza
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56:21 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 Afghanistan is a once-in-a-generation realignment, not a news cycle
with Arsalan Khan
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57:10 Why the Taliban took Afghanistan in days, not months
with Hussain Nadim
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43:01 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 What's really at stake as the Taliban take Afghanistan
with Salman Javed
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45 min 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 Peace, Polarization, and Pakistan's Turning Point: A Conversation with Dr. Adnan Rafiq
with Dr. Adnan Rafiq
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1:22:41 Afghanistan's cycle of conflict: history, power vacuums, and Pakistan's strategic dilemma
with Salman Javed
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51:17 What actually happened in 1971
with Farhat Hussein
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1:35:20 Imran Khan on Pakistan's political crisis, foreign policy, and the road ahead
with Imran Khan
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