Hashtag Empires And Digital Conflict Over Pakistan Iran Narratives
Apr 29, 2026
In the contemporary geopolitical imagination of South Asia and the wider Middle East, conflict is no longer primarily authored in diplomatic communiqués, battlefield reports, or formal state broadcasts. It is increasingly assembled in real time through the fragmented but powerful architecture of social
DISINFORMATION AND SECTARIAN MOBILIZATION IN PAKISTAN
Apr 20, 2026
The digital information order in Pakistan has evolved into a highly contested communicative environment where geopolitical tensions, particularly those connected to Iran–Saudi rivalry, are refracted through sectarian sensibilities, algorithmic amplification, and fragmented media authority. What appears on the surface as episodic online polarization