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The Meticulously Crafted Trap by Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal The situation in the Gulf has grown steadily clearer of late, and with it the realisation that neither Israel nor its principal patron, the United States, can secure their wider aims unless Saudi Arabia is at length brought into line. Direct persuasion having failed to draw Riyadh into recognition of the Abraham Accords, both parties appear to have resorted to more circuitous means of tightening the noose. What once seemed a confused picture of regional tension now reveals a deliberate design intended…

66 Years of Stability Undone by Unilateral Abeyance By Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal Water is the essence of life, and it is through its presence that the world achieves prosperity and progress. Nature has provided numerous sources of water; while vast reserves exist underground, rivers—whose courses were charted by nature itself—remain the most vital source. Securing river water was a challenge for Pakistan from the very beginning, as India frequently attempted to obstruct the flow of these natural waterways. To resolve this issue, the Indus Waters Treaty was signed between Pakistan…

Twenty Billion Scans a Month: Inside the Surveillance Dragnet Reshaping Immigrant Life in America By Nasreen Khan | South Asian Chronicle | 16 September 2026 SAN FRANCISCO — Over the past year, ICE raids have surged across major American cities, with some 590,000 immigrants rounded up and a record 50,000 detained in July alone. On 10 September, American Community Media brought researchers, data scientists, organisers and a former industry insider to the World Affairs Center in San Francisco to explain how that machinery actually works — and what, if anything,…

Politics of Possession by Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal There are certain facts buried deep within the annals of history that have been deliberately veiled, whether from motives of political expediency or to shield the interests of powerful parties, under such dense accumulations of silence that even the most diligent searcher after truth might labour long without bringing them fully to light. Yet time, that relentless uncoverer of hidden things, will not forever suffer such concealments to endure. Beneath these obscured realities often lie the misdeeds of individuals or of states—acts that…

Super El Niño Bears Down: What a Historic Pacific Warming Means for Texas, California and Beyond By Tariq Khan | Pakistan Chronicle | August 21, 2026   A Copernicus Climate Change Service forecast map, built on the ECMWF SEAS5 model, shows sea-surface temperature anomalies exceeding 2°C across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific by October 2026. (Image courtesy of Daniel Swain / American Community Media) HOUSTON — For Tariq Khan, publisher of Pakistan Chronicle and South Asian Chronicle, extreme weather in Texas is not an abstraction. Nearly a decade after…

New Public Charge Rules Have Chilling Effects on Immigrants and Their Children New federal rule threatens Medicaid and food-security gains for South Asian and mixed-status immigrant families By Nasreen Khan | South Asian Chronicle A Sweeping Expansion of an Old Rule South Asian immigrant families, many of them in mixed-status households with U.S.-citizen children, are among those most likely to be affected by a revived and dramatically expanded public charge rule set to take effect September 18, health and immigration policy experts said during a national news briefing hosted by…