Afghanistan
UN Extends Taliban Sanctions Monitoring Amid Rising Terror Threats
UN Security Council renews Taliban sanctions monitoring as Afghanistan remains a hub for international terrorist networks.
SAT Commentary
UN Security Council renews Taliban sanctions monitoring as Afghanistan remains a hub for international terrorist networks.
Afghanistan has historically been a mosaic of ethnic identities rather than a homogenous nation-state. Pashtuns constitute roughly 40–45% of the population, followed by Tajiks (25–30%),
Analysis of Balochistan’s security landscape, where militancy exploits socio-economic grievances even as CPEC-driven investments seek stability through infrastructure, education, and connectivity.
Afghanistan’s north fuels cross-border militancy, drone attacks, and drug trafficking, prompting CSTO, CIS & SCO security action.
India’s failure to provide operational data for Baglihar and Kishanganga hydro projects underscores a persistent pattern of ignoring international obligations. Pakistan’s adherence to PCA directives reinforces its position as a compliance-focused treaty partner, while India’s silence carries both legal and reputational consequences.
Repeated cross-border attacks, systematic militant infiltration, organized criminal networks and ideological export from Afghanistan underscore how Taliban rule has transformed the country into a regional epicenter of terrorism, destabilizing neighboring states, threatening regional connectivity, endangering foreign nationals, and posing broader risks to global security.
UNAMA’s October–December 2025 report on cross-border civilian casualties presents a narrowly framed humanitarian narrative that isolates consequences from causes, overlooking the entrenched terrorist infrastructure operating from Afghanistan and its direct role in destabilizing Pakistan.
US support for Pakistan following Balochistan violence reframes the conflict as a global counter-terrorism challenge, not a separatist struggle.
For years, the World War I memorial near Rehara village stood quietly above the surrounding land, a small but enduring reminder of local soldiers who
Zalmay Khalilzad’s recent tweets portray Pakistan as collapsing, criticizing counterterrorism operations while ignoring the real drivers of instability in Balochistan: foreign-backed terrorism, criminal networks, and the civilian and security force toll. By conflating state action with militancy, he misrepresents ground realities and obscures the failures of his own Afghan diplomacy. This commentary exposes the gap between his rhetoric and Pakistan’s efforts to maintain law, order, and development under complex security challenges.