India loses information war to country that wasn’t technically allowed online – Prism
One year after Operation Sindoor: India had the jets, the digital army, and a decade of nationalist momentum. Pakistan had self-deprecatory jokes and diplomatic trolling. Guess who won. “In information warfare, perception is the battlefield. If the news damages the other side—true or false—amplify it. Post it. Share it. Make it viral. Let panic spread […]
Why Iran plays the Sicilian Defence – Prism
For forty years Washington has known what Tehran is doing but it still didn’t find the right moves. On Friday, April 11, while Pakistani officials were arranging the seating plan for ceasefire talks in Islamabad, the USS Frank E. Peterson and USS Michael Murphy entered the Strait of Hormuz. Murphy switched on her Automatic Identification […]
Ink and rubble: The systematic assault on Iran’s intellectual soul – Prism
What we are witnessing today is not merely conflict; it is a struggle over who is allowed to produce knowledge, preserve culture, and imagine the future. Last year, my plans to celebrate Eid in Iran were dismantled by the sudden escalation of regional aggression. What was meant to be a personal pilgrimage became a casualty […]
Necropolitics and the manufacture of indifference in Iran and beyond – Prism
By keeping regions in a state of collapse, global actors create a legal grey zone where the standard costs of doing business, fair wages, environmental restoration, and corporate liability simply evaporate. Ancient maps are often labelled with a warning: “Hic Sunt Dracones”* (here be dragons), marking the point where civilisation ended, and the unknown began. […]
When death becomes a statistic: necropolitics in the age of moral silence – Prism
By keeping regions in a state of collapse, global actors create a legal grey zone where the standard costs of doing business, fair wages, environmental restoration, and corporate liability simply evaporate. Ancient maps are often labelled with a warning: “Hic Sunt Dracones”* (here be dragons), marking the point where civilisation ended, and the unknown began. […]
The underground architecture that has sustained Iran’s military capacity in the face of US-Israeli attacks – Prism
The movement downward is not merely concealment, but a reorganisation of space forced by a mode of war that seeks to make the visible world fully vulnerable to interruption. The conflict in the Gulf, now under a fragile two-week ceasefire after 42 days of intense fighting, is not just being shaped by missiles, bombs, and […]
When Palestine writes its story of liberation, its people’s sacrifices and resilience will prove to be its biggest strength – Prism
While the ‘world of light’ has collectively agreed to forget the oppression it wrought on our lands, our ‘world of darkness’ has vowed to always remember. My mother was recently travelling from Abbottabad to visit me in Lahore. On the bus, she found herself seated next to an overwhelmed mother and her four children. Before […]