Mian Majid Ali Afzal

  US–Iran Peace Draft: Is It Workable and Where Are the Risks? By Mian Majid Ali Afzal As a student of defense and strategic security studies, my assessment of the proposed US–Iran Peace Draft of May 2026 is that the framework is technically workable, but politically fragile. The agreement addresses the core objectives driving the current crisis: preventing a wider regional war, restricting Iran’s nuclear escalation, and creating a pathway for phased sanctions relief. However, the durability of the deal depends less on the text itself and more on verification mechanisms, regional buy-in, and crisis management during implementation. The draft reflects a familiar strategic reality. Iran seeks sanctions relief and the unfreezing of financial assets. The United States seeks a rollback of Iran’s nuclear capabilities and limitations on regional escalation. Meanwhile, Gulf states, Israel, and broader regional actors primarily seek stability and the prevention of another prolonged conflict...

  Looking at the vast and rather chaotic picture of Pakistan’s energy sector, one must admit that the potential to achieve real efficiency and focus on sustainability has not yet been identified. This potential is best achieved by readjusting the payment system for power providers, especially Independent Power Producers (IPPs), from a capacity-based to a performance-based system. Therefore, how this article presents performance-improvement advice from within the sector indicates that improvement can directly lead to a corresponding increase in capacity and, specifically, to the stability of the entire country’s energy supply. In essence, one can locate the main source of the energy crisis in Pakistan in the outdated structure of the contracts signed with IPPs. Apart from this, the provided contracts had been based more on the capacity that IPPs contracted to deliver, as opposed to the amount of electricity actually produced. This frequently results in conditions where the costs of ...

  In world politics, states faced traditional security threats along their borders from neighbouring rival countries, as well as from regional powers and superpowers, in the previous century. Historically, since 1945, due to nuclear politics, we can observe that the traditional security threats for nuclear countries have reduced to none. During this whole time period, war history is deprived even of a single example of a major war between two nuclear-armed countries, except the Kargil war of 1999 between India and Pakistan. But contentions between rival countries remained constant, and output was over there in the form of different shapes of threat known as non-traditional security threats, and the results of these threats were the same as the earlier ones. This new shape of threats is named as Proxy war, in which a state was suffering through society and non-militarily mostly. During the Cold War era, Proxy wars remained dominant in bipolar politics, where third countries remained...

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https://www.dailyparliamenttimes.com/2020/04/20/allama-muhammad-iqbal-as-a-change-agent/#.Xp59i8gzbIU 82nd Death Anniversary of Allama Muhammad Iqbal being observed today. I am paying special tribute to my spiritual and political leader for his vision of a separate homeland for the Muslims of the Subcontinent.

My article on *Water, Nature and Climate Change* published in World Times Magazine. On March 22, 2020, the world will celebrate World Water Day, which this year has the theme of Water, Nature and Climate Change. As the global population increases, the demand for water is increasing, which in many ways depletes natural resources and pollutes the environment. In the face of changing climatic conditions worldwide, this issue highlights the urgent need to improve the protection of water supply and access to a sustainable water supply. Water scarcity is a severe and growing problem. For at least some part of each year, 71 per cent of the world's population (4•3 billion people), experience moderate to severe water scarcity. https://www.facebook.com/2236885473234432/posts/2553952798194363/?app=fbl