Archive - Talat’s Substack

May 2025

End PCL and get down to war work

Modi and the BJP might appear like a scotched snake licking its wounds, snapping and hissing in hopeless hate. But in reality, they are coiling…

May 18 •

Modi’s madness is a cover

Modi is playing with fire. But he is not alone in doing this. He has big international backers.

May 3 •

March 2025

Pakistan is neither hard nor soft

We need to shift our focus away from the bizarre sword fights between the hardness and softness warriors.

Mar 24 •

Bannu attack, grim realities

Politics getting mixed with terrorism has produced a functional rational and marketing reach for this war against the state that terrorists and their…

Mar 4 •

February 2025

The dick-line behind our decline

The current events are outcomes of structural decline in the country’s stability—a decline directly linked to a long dick-line of people who came to…

Feb 12 •

January 2025

Riaz’s Gangster Paradise

The nation deserves to know what has been cooking in Pakistan’s dirty kitchen where Riaz made the witches brew and everybody supped and shared happily…

Jan 23 •

Welcome Imran, Thank you Gen Asim

This is realpolitik at its ruthless best. It can eat its own words, ditch its principles, kill its friends, and sleep with its enemies.

Jan 16 •

General Asim’s absolute power

It was in 2024 that General Asim Munir placed himself at the helm of all strategic affairs and became the center of all policy attention.

Jan 8 •

December 2024

The not-so-adorable US-Imran bromance

If Imran governs the popular narrative in Pakistan, Washington would want to govern him to advance its long-term interests. He is their go-to guy to…

Dec 29, 2024 •

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