Asma Khan

Remembering my father on the second anniversary of his passing away. GK ( Greater Kashmir) the Valley’s premier Newspaper - Editorial Spread. epaper.greaterkashmir.com/Details.aspx?i…

🇵🇰Pakistan just opened 6 land corridors to Iran. 6 overland routes from Karachi and Gwadar straight to the Iranian border Gabd, Taftan, multiple variants. 3rd country goods can now transit Pakistan to Iran by truck under customs oversight. 3,000+ containers were sitting stranded in Karachi, unable to sail because of Hormuz. They now have a road. Pakistan presents this as trade policy. The effect is strategic: it punches a hole in the economic logic of the US naval blockade. The blockade controls the sea not the Karakoram Highway. Oil and bulk energy flows are still choked trucks can't replace tankers at that scale. But machinery, consumer goods, industrial inputs, and 3rd-country cargo can now reach Iran overland. These corridors can carry Chinese or other foreign goods into Iran under Pakistani transit rules. Every country that trades with Iran and doesn't want to pick a side is watching. The naval blockade is still the dominant pressure. But it just got flanked.

As the world scrambles to respond to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the Iran war should prompt preparations for a crisis over Taiwan. Read @benjaminbland's (@CHAsiaPacific) latest analysis for Chatham House⤵️ chathamhouse.org/2026/04/taiwan…

Journalist: King Charles will be in New York. What will you say to him? Mamdani: I would highly encourage him to return the Kohinoor Diamond if I were to speak with him

بلوچستان کے علاقے زہری کے نواب ثناء اللہ خان زہری کے پاس اپنا زاتی لگژری ہوائی جہاز ہے ۔ جبکہ زہری بلوچستان کے پسماندہ علاقوں میں سے ایک ہے ۔ بلوچستان میں ایک طرف نواب اور سردار ایلون مسک جیسی لگژری زندگی گزار رہے ہیں ۔ وہیں عام عوام غربت کا شکار ہیں ۔

Story of Aitzaz Hasan Bangash by his Father, Relatives & the teachers of the school. Aitzaz the Boy who saved a school filled with hundreds of children, from a suicide bomber in January 2014. Part of a Documentary released by RAVA films.

So far in April, Gwadar has handled around 11,000 standard shipping containers. For a port that handled around 8,300 containers in all of 2025 and historically has not seen more than 20 ships dock in an entire year, the current activity is unprecedented. buff.ly/jvVRB9T

Russia will halt Kazakh oil flows to Germany via Druzhba from May 1, disrupting a key post Ukraine supply route. Berlin says supplies are secure, but the move highlights Europe’s reliance on Russian transit. timesca.com/russia-to-halt…

Embarking on timely tour of Islamabad, Muscat, and Moscow. Purpose of my visits is to closely coordinate with our partners on bilateral matters and consult on regional developments. Our neighbors are our priority.

Pakistan's efforts at mediation are commendable. but here's my warning: keep it facilitative; don't become a directive mediator. understand Zartman's and Tuoval's "mediation dilemma". if you push the issue, Iran might think you are trying to control the agenda on US' behalf>

My latest for the Washington Post on Imran Khan. The legendary cricketer and politician Pakistan can jail, censor but never erase. @PostOpinions washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

Somebody is blowing up power plants, oil refineries and energy infrastructure across the globe. Guess what they have planned?

#Pakistan: 2 minor #Christian sisters 8yr old Zarish & 14yr old Muqaddas abducted from Sadiqabad & found in Karachi. Muqaddas, who was in critical condition after sexual abuse, has died. A case that raises urgent questions about child safety, protection & justice. #EndChildAbuse

In this piece @MariaFantappie and I explain Saudi Arabia's deliberate wait-and-see approach to the war, and how that could lay the foundation for Iran-Saudi relations and a new post-war regional security arrangement foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/ca…

Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops: ft.trib.al/ht2AD0N

Soumya took a stand against the bullying of a Muslim couple, Namita made a reel on d benefits of namaz, Professor Sumathi wrote an apology to Nida Khan. All three women are Hindu, all three women are subjected to rape threats by a lynch mob for displaying humanity in public life

"Pakistanis have lived with war, terrorism, political instability, economic crisis, and international isolation for most of their national existence. They have learned that the one thing that cannot be bombed, sanctioned, or narratively reframed is laughter. The self-deprecation is the point. It says: we know what you think of us, we know what we have been through, and we choose to laugh anyway. That choice is not weakness. It is the most defiant thing a population under pressure can do." - Dan Qayyum

@Jaferii The wheelchair phenomena has become quite popular with the South Asian diaspora / international traveller! You see them on wheelchairs while embarking on planes and during the flight, they briskly walk past you!

Getting off the emirates flight to karachi, everyone was captivated by a shouting match between two passengers who were in each others face after a tussle over who could stand up before the plane stopped moving and yank their bags out of the luggage bins in the cabin. After screaming that they would slap each other, they started berating each other based on what part of karachi they were from. Then one of the passengers pulled out a trump card when he asked where the other is a national of and after being told his fellow fighter was a Pakistani, triumphantly replied that he was a national of three countries. Kept shouting randomly at each other for a while and no one really saw what became of it. Then we got to the FIA counter and queued for immigration stamping. Both fighters were found obediently queued behind each other. Sitting on wheelchairs being pushed by airport staff.

In geopolitics, there's only one permanent king and that's geography.

@PathanBhaiii i must say Indians are intelligent in this regard. they are not doing the same mistake that we Pakistanis did. To allow them into our country