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Proliferation of Abandoned NATO Hardware Elevates Terrorist Threat in Pakistan

The abrupt 2021 military withdrawal of United States and NATO forces from Afghanistan left behind an estimated $7.12 billion in advanced weaponry and tactical equipment. Rather than securing these vast state-of-the-art stockpiles, the incoming Taliban regime seized control of the abandoned military hardware. They immediately began systematically diverting these sophisticated weapons to hostile proxy networks […]

Educational Neglect and Infrastructure Failures in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

The tragic collapse of school infrastructure resulting in the loss of innocent children and an educator across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa exposes a profound structural crisis in provincial governance. After thirteen years of uninterrupted rule by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf administration, the inability to provide safe, secure learning environments is not a random accident but a direct indictment […]

HIG’s Impending Challenge to the Taliban?

When the jihad against the Soviet Union took shape in the 1980s, seven major Mujahideen groups that came to be known as the “Peshawar Seven” in Western literature led the resistance. They included Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Hezb-e-Islami-Gulbuddin (HIG), Burhanuddin Rabbani’s Jamiat-e-Islami, Mohammad Yunus Khalis’s Hezb-e-Islami-Khalis (HIK), Abdur Rasul Sayyaf’s Ittehad-e-Islami, Mohammad Nabi Muhammadi’s Harkat-e-Inqilab-e-Islami, Pir Sayyid […]

Absolute Sanctity of Human Life and Jurisprudential Fallacy of Khawarij Terrorism

Islamic jurisprudence establishes an uncompromised doctrine regarding the absolute sanctity of human life and the absolute inviolability of a believer’s blood. Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri’s comprehensive scholarly work systematically dismantles the ideological foundations of modern takfiri extremism by highlighting authentic prophetic traditions and clear Quranic injunctions. Political, ideological, or sectarian differences can never justify the mass slaughter […]

Kabul State-Sanctioned Proxy Network Threatens Regional Stability

The Afghan landscape under the Taliban regime has solidified as the primary sanctuary, operational base, and strategic patron for state-sanctioned proxy terrorism across South Asia. Despite repeated public denials from Kabul, over twenty international terrorist organizations operate freely from Afghan soil. Pakistan has identified over sixty operational camps, staging areas, and logistics facilities harboring Fitna […]

Pakistan’s Terrorism Tragedy?

In an article that appeared in the New York Times back in 2005, the U.S. Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley and Homeland Security Advisor Frances Fragos admitted that “countries with huge standing armies equipped with lethal weapons are defenceless against terrorists.” The U.S. administration, after just four years of intervention in Afghanistan, came to the […]

Why India is a Loser

India is actively engaging with the parties to the conflict in West Asia. Its leaders and diplomats have been talking to officials from the United States, Israel, and Iran regarding the ongoing military conflict in the region. India is regarded as a strategic ally of Washington and a military ally of Israel. Prime Minister Narendra […]

Afghanistan’s Unresolved Question of Political Authority

Taliban control the Afghan state. United States has withdrawn its military forces from Afghan society. The large-scale war has ended. Apparently, it is stable on the surface. But the underlying question about the distribution of political authority in Afghan society, which has historically caused instability in Afghanistan, is still there. The Taliban’s return to power […]

The Cost of Exclusion

The Taliban captured Kabul in August 2021, but Afghanistan’s political conflict did not end with their victory. Five years later, armed opposition is becoming more geographically dispersed and organisationally diverse. Former soldiers, established resistance fronts and newer local formations are challenging a regime that has secured control without resolving the question of national inclusion. Kandhari […]