The foreign ministers of Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Iraq, Palestine, Qatar, Egypt, Morocco, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, and Malaysia, along with the Secretary-General...

Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, who is considered a close associate and frontman of Pakistan’s Army Chief, delivered a speech at the Economic Summit in Islamabad on 29 July, in which he referred to the “collapse of the existing system.” The following day, on 30 July, the statement by the DG ISPR regarding good governance once again sparked debate across the country about a change in the governmental structure.

On 24 July 2026, once again, Muslim blood was spilled as security personnel were killed, this time fourteen of them in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in District Tank. In just the past few months, incidents of insecurity in the tribal areas and Balochistan, as well as the recent protests in Azad Kashmir, have claimed the lives of dozens of security personnel and civilians.

The government and media in Pakistan are presenting Pakistan’s mediation in the Iran–U.S. war as a great achievement. In reality, however, the purpose of this mediation is to provide the United States—mired in crisis and facing certain defeat—with a face-saving exit, by bringing Iran to the negotiating table to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and abandon capabilities to acquire nuclear weapons,