Pakistan, Jan. 15 -- Power in the twenty-first century is being redefined. It no longer rests solely on territory, industrial capacity, or even military strength, but increasingly on the ability to compute, store, shape, analyse, and govern global information systems. Artificial intelligence has emerged as the new fulcrum of global influence, and the countries capable of designing and training advanced systems now hold leverage comparable to nuclear powers in the middle of the last century. Yet as this transformation accelerates, the world is entering a new strategic landscape without the institutional architecture necessary to manage it. Without deliberate global coordination, AI will harden inequality, deepen geopolitical fractures, and...