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The Verification Question

A precision-guided bomb does not miss by accident. It goes exactly where it is aimed. On 16 March, Pakistan aimed one at a 2,000-bed drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul — at 9pm, mid-prayer, with more than a thousand patients inside.

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Wounds in the Federation

An ongoing Justicara series examining unresolved political fractures, human-rights concerns and the constitutional choices facing Pakistan.

Part III of 5

Azad Kashmir's Constitutional Trap: Every Route Ends in Islamabad

Azad Kashmir's Constitutional Trap: Every Route Ends in Islamabad Wounds in the Federation - Part III On 5 June, Azad Kashmir’s government did three things in a single day. It announced legislative elections. It declared the territory’s largest civic movement a proscribed organisation under anti-terrorism law. And it switched off the internet. Two days later the Supreme Court directed citizens to the constitutional remedy: an Article 33 amendment through the Legislative Assembly. A United Nations report had already recorded what that 2018 “devolution” actually did.

Wounds in the Federation

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Why Balochistan’s Wound Cannot Heal Without Politics

If you think Balochistan is only a security problem, this report will challenge what you think you know.

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