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Umer FarooqAnalysis, stories, and insights on politics, security, and international affairs, with a focus on South Asia and the wider geopolitical landscape. Reporting from the frontlines and the corridors of power, exploring how events shape societies & strategies
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Afghanistan Has Disappeared. The War Hasn’t.
Umer Farooq
Afghanistan as a news story has disappeared from the international news cycle. Taliban control Kabul. The United States military has withdrawn from Afghanistan. A large foreign military presence is not there as Afghanistan no l...
When Democracy Goes to War
The U.S. Afghanistan War Commission, which is visiting Pakistan, held a meeting with Field Marshall Asim Munir in his office at GHQ. The commission’s delegation led by its Co-Chairs Ms. Shamila N. Chaudhary and Dr. Colin F. Jackson, express...
The Dangerous Space Between Nuclear Peace and Limited War
Prestigious American magazine Foreign Affairs published an article titled, “The Strange Defeat of Nuclear Deterrence: And the Coming Crisis in Strategic Stability” in its July/August 2026 issue. Its author Rose Gottemoeller argues that new...
Beyond Maududi: The Search for a New Political Vocabulary
A friend recently asked me whether Maududi was a traditionalist or a modernist? These two categories cover most of the Muslim intellectuals that emerged in British India and later Pakistan who interpreted Islamic values for common men in ou...
When Divine Sovereignty Becomes Human Power
In May 1981 Arabic language journal Ṣawt al-umma (Voice of the Umma), published from Tehran, reprinted a statement of Jamaat-e-Islami’s founder, Maulana Abu Ala Maududi in which he wholeheartedly supported the Iranian revolution and had app...
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A newsletter on geopolitics, history, and strategy through the lens of South Asia. I write about foreign policy, regional security, and the ideas and historical traditions—Indian and Islamic—that shape contemporary global politics.
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