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Put the Panel on the Dam. The Case Against Diamer Bhasha Fails on Its Own Arithmetic.

Put the Panel on the Dam. The Case Against Diamer Bhasha Fails on Its Own Arithmetic.

Normalise the capital-intensity comparison for capacity factor and the claimed 61% advantage for solar+BESS collapses to 5%; against a dispatchable reservoir the honest comparator is 62% worse. The real cheap megawatts are sitting on GENCO switchyards being auctioned as scrap, and on the reservoirs themselves.

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The Second Mandate. What Makkah Asks of an Industry Built for Blockade.

The Second Mandate. What Makkah Asks of an Industry Built for Blockade.

Pakistan does not lack engineers; it holds roughly as many as Israel's or Türkiye's primes and converts them into a fraction of the output. The gap is not capacity but mandate: an industrial base optimised for autarky under blockade, discharged of its 1974 tasks and never re-tasked for a market.

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Hammer Strike and the Mangla Logic – Pakistan's I Corps and the Architecture of Offensive Deterrence

Hammer Strike and the Mangla Logic – Pakistan's I Corps and the Architecture of Offensive Deterrence

Lt. Gen. Nauman Zakaria's address at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue 2026 is best understood not as a statement but as a doctrine brief. Hammer Strike is the mature culmination of a decade of Pakistani conventional thinking, built squarely on the structural opening that Galwan created.

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