The New World Disorder

  By Zohaib Ahmed — for investors, policymakers, and the global Sikh community | 29 August 2025 Punjab is uniquely positioned to lead faith-led heritage tourism for the global Sikh diaspora. From Nankana Sahib to Kartarpur, from the Samadhi of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Lahore to the storied havelis of Gujranwala and Chakwal, the province already holds the core “assets.” What’s missing is an integrated Tourism+ model—where tourism is the anchor, but restoration, education, entrepreneurship, and diaspora capital create a self-sustaining economic flywheel. Below is a data-backed blueprint to get there. Why Punjab, Why Now Concentrated heritage: Punjab hosts some of Sikhism’s most sacred sites— Gurdwara Janam Asthan (Nankana Sahib), Gurdwara Panja Sahib (Hasan Abdal), Gurdwara Dera Sahib & Samadhi of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (Lahore), and Gurdwara Darbar Sahib (Kartarpur) —forming a compact pilgrimage circuit within a few hours’ drive of Lahore/Islamabad.  Corridor ta...

  Pakistan’s Moment, the Jaishankar–Muttaqi Overture in an August 2025 Scenario By Zohaib Ahmed | 29 August 2025 Setting the stage (brief): In this August 2025 scenario Pakistan sits at the centre of a new regional consensus, embraced by Washington, courted by Moscow (steel-mill + rail corridors), deepening CPEC 2 ties with Beijing, warming with the GCC and Central Asia, and pushing an Africa engagement. India, by contrast in this scenario, is reeling from a strategic collapse and diplomatic isolation. Into that landscape comes another diplomatic ripple: India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has held ministerial-level contact with Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister, Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi — the first of its kind since the Taliban return — and reports in August 2025 show Kabul’s planned travel to Pakistan ran into UN/US procedural hurdles. These concrete touchpoints matter because symbolism meets structural reality. Khaama News Anadolu Ajansı Dawn The grand stra...

 By Zohaib Ahmed | 29 August 2025 | Based on Article by Ali Hamza Introduction When Ali Hamza—a decorated PAF fighter pilot—writes about airpower, it isn’t just nostalgia from Kitty Hawk to Red Baron. His thesis is blunt: today, the battlefield is won not by shiny jets, but by networks, fusion, and systems integration. This blog dives deeper, blending technical aviation insight, kill chain analysis, and aerial warfare doctrine. We compare lessons from PAF-IAF standoffs, Gulf War air campaigns, NATO vs. Russia in Ukraine, and China’s Pacific strategy —and draw out what the next decade means for Pakistan, India, and global airpower. “Airpower has lost its glamour dogfight aesthetic. The Rafale vs. J-10C debates in South Asia mirror Europe’s obsession with the F-35 vs. Typhoon—but the real metric is how fast your networks close the kill chain.” Tse adds, “Aircraft today are just flying nodes in a combat cloud. Without secure comms, AI-driven targeting, and ISR integration, a $20...

  Why Builder.ai Should Make Every US Investor Rethink India Tech — and What to Do Next by Zohaib Ahmed | 28 August 2025 The headline that broke the spell In May–June 2025 a London-based startup once touted as a $1.5 billion “AI unicorn” — Builder.ai — collapsed into insolvency after multiple reports revealed a striking truth: the company’s vaunted “AI” app-builder was, in large part, powered by hundreds of human engineers in India doing manual coding and customization behind the scenes. The revelations — followed by bankruptcy filings and press investigations — forced investors, customers and auditors to confront how shallow the “AI” claim really was. business-standard.com Bloomberg.com DevOps.com That single story is what a whole generation of skeptical VCs will point at when they talk about “due diligence” in emerging-market tech investments for years. Not an isolated freak — there’s a pattern Builder.ai is the latest high-profile fallout, but it fits a pattern of major...