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Insights from SAT’s X Space on whether the TTA-TTP bond is strategic or circumstantial, exploring ethnic ties, militancy roots, and policy options.
Behind the claims of stability lies a fragmented Emirate. SAT traces the patterns linking militancy, governance failures and the pressures driving instability and regional fallout far beyond Kabul’s headlines.
The South Asia Times (SAT) hosted a national webinar titled “From the Periphery to the Center: What People at Our Margins Endure,” spotlighting how Pakistan’s border regions, Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, face deep-rooted governance challenges, economic neglect, and communication voids. Experts called for shifting from a security-centric to an inclusion-driven policy model to rebuild trust, empower youth, and turn Pakistan’s peripheries into engines of national resilience.
South Asia Times’ X Space session on AJK protests featured insights from Farzana Yaqoob and Sardar Sohail Hassan, examining JAAC’s demands, Pakistan’s subsidies, governance challenges, youth mobilisation, and India’s shifting narratives. The dialogue unpacked how local grievances are exploited by vested and external interests.
At SAT’s August 18 webinar, experts highlighted how refugee return, terrorism, and trade shape Pak–Afghan relations, urging a shift toward geo-economic cooperation.
At a SAT roundtable in Islamabad, key voices from policy, academia, and activism called for inclusive, strategic, and diplomatic approaches to the Kashmir crisis.