The Global Table of Brutal Truth in Davos and the Future of the World and Pakistan By Raja Zahid Akhtar Khanzada The brutal truth is not the truth delivered in moral sermons. It is the truth placed on the table inside rooms of power, without veils and without softness. It is the truth nations prefer not to hear, yet empires are built upon it. In brutal truth, there is less hope and more reality. Principles do not speak; outcomes do. That is why, throughout history, this truth has surfaced either at moments of war or at the birth of empires.…
Author: Raja Zahid Khanzada
From the Nobel to Tariffs, Trump Has Torn the Veil Off Global Diplomacy By Raja Zahid Akhtar Khanzada World politics has never been merely a contest of power. It has always been a politics of ego, recognition, and reward. Some leaders seek a place in history, others in books, and some begin to see the Nobel Peace Prize as a validation of their own persona. For the past year, Donald Trump has appeared consumed by precisely that desire. His claims of peace-making, his declarations of halting wars, his tales of mediation were all driven by the same hope: that one…
Del Nobel a los aranceles: Trump ha rasgado el velo de la diplomacia global Por Raja Zahid Akhtar Khanzada La política mundial nunca ha sido únicamente un juego de poder. Siempre ha sido también una política del ego, del reconocimiento y de los premios. Algunos líderes aspiran a ocupar un lugar en la historia, otros en los libros, y hay quienes llegan a considerar el Premio Nobel de la Paz como una certificación de su propia grandeza. Donald Trump lleva más de un año moviéndose en esa órbita. Sus proclamaciones de paz, sus relatos de mediaciones exitosas y sus declaraciones…
https://youtube.com/shorts/KzqmyQAtRNs?si=opMJfqXGH8ur30Gk Karachi Drowned in the Ashes of Gul Plaza: Burned Bodies, Ruin, and One Question for the Governor: What Have You Done So Far? By Raja Zahid Akhtar Khanzada It is often said that not everything needs to be dressed up as politics. Some tragedies speak in their own language. They compose their own elegies and stand, uninvited, as questions before the living conscience. The ashes of Gul Plaza in Karachi had not yet cooled. Dreams lay buried beneath the debris. People remained missing, with the haunting fear that several lives may already have turned into burned bodies. Billions of…
Waqar Chishti: A Lamp Lit in the Darkness of Migration — One Officer, One Community, Countless Stories ! By Raja Zahid Akhtar Khanzada In foreign lands, some people do more than merely survive. They give others the courage to survive. Some faces, whether in uniform or without it, become a form of protection simply by being present. In Dallas’s South Asian community, Waqar Chishti is one such name a name not only recognized, but respected. He is not seen merely as a security officer; he is regarded as support, as guidance, as a quiet savior in unfamiliar territory. Few truly…
Sindh’s Political Landscape: Bilawal Bhutto’s Message, the Critique, and the Reality By Raja Zahid Akhtar Khanzada When Bilawal Bhutto Zardari stood in the ornate hall of the Presidency in Islamabad and addressed foreign diplomats, business leaders, and members of the media under the banner of “Sindh’s Transformation Story,” it was not merely a routine government briefing. It was a carefully constructed defense of the Pakistan Peoples Party’s longest uninterrupted provincial rule, presented deliberately to an international audience. With confidence, Bilawal rejected the perception that the PPP had “done nothing” in Sindh, arguing instead that between 2008 and 2025 the province…
Is Iran on the Brink of War? Greenland’s Chessboard and the Psychology of Trump By Raja Zahid Akhtar Khanzada At first glance, Donald Trump’s recent statements on Iran appear steeped in the language of impending war. Read through headlines alone, they sound like a prelude to confrontation. Yet my reading of Trump extends beyond sound bites. I have studied several of the nineteen books he has authored, particularly his most influential works, and during my academic training in natural medicine, I spent five years formally studying human psychology. Viewed through this broader lens—his writings, his psychological patterns, and the continuity…
¿Está Irán al borde de la guerra? El tablero de Groenlandia y la política psicológica de Trump Por: Raja Zahid Akhtar Khanzada Las recientes declaraciones de Donald Trump sobre Irán, si se leen únicamente en el marco de los titulares, parecen anunciar un lenguaje previo a la guerra. Sin embargo, tras haber estudiado varias de las diecinueve obras escritas por Trump, especialmente sus libros más influyentes, y después de cinco años de formación en psicología humana durante mis estudios en medicina natural, la imagen que emerge es sustancialmente distinta. Cuando se analiza a Trump a través de sus libros, su…
Del autobús a las cadenas: la historia de lucha, poder y caída de Nicolás Maduro Por Raja Zahid Akhtar Khanzada Aquel día, como millones de personas en todo el mundo, mantuve la mirada fija en la pantalla del televisor. No estaba sentado en un banco de ninguna corte de Nueva York, pero aun así el escenario completo se desplegaba ante mis ojos. Televisores, teléfonos móviles, transmisiones en directo en redes sociales y los rótulos de última hora de los canales de noticias coincidían en un mismo instante. El ruido de un helicóptero, un convoy descendiendo en el aire frío y…
From Bus Driver to Shackles: The Rise, Power, and Fall of Nicolás Maduro By Raja Zahid Akhtar Khanzada That day, like millions of others around the world, my eyes were fixed on a television screen. I was not sitting on a bench inside a New York courtroom, yet the entire scene unfolded vividly before me. Televisions, mobile phones, social media livestreams, and the breaking news tickers of global networks converged in a single moment. The thudding sound of a helicopter, a convoy descending into the cold air, and images that may well endure for years as a distilled symbol of…
