India and Trump’s National Security Strategy 2025
Washington’s new security lens is transactional. Partnerships must pay. For India, sentiment won’t suffice, deliverables will.
UN Report Warns Afghanistan Emerging as Hub of Cross-Border Terror Threats
UN report warns of rising TTP attacks from Afghanistan and growing regional terror threats, rejecting Taliban claims of eliminating militants.
Indian National Pleads Guilty in US Murder-for-Hire Plot
Indian national Nikhil Gupta pleads guilty to plotting murder of US Sikh separatist leader; highlights transnational repression risks.
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.
Regional Stability at Stake: Examining the Taliban’s Counterclaims
Analysis of Taliban claims versus UN findings, examining sanctions, militant presence, and Afghanistan’s regional security impact.
Afghanistan’s Ethnic Landscape and Taliban Rule
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%), Hazaras (9–15%), and Uzbeks/Turkmen (10–13%). Yet, since the return of the Taliban in 2021, political authority has become heavily concentrated within one ethnic framework. The Taliban’s Rahbari Shura, its central […]
Balochistan’s Challenge: Development, Dissent, and the Danger of Militant Exploitation
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 Northern Frontier: From Peripheral Instability to Eurasian Security Concern
Afghanistan’s north fuels cross-border militancy, drone attacks, and drug trafficking, prompting CSTO, CIS & SCO security action.
World Cancer Day: Atoms Save Lives
For more than five decades the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission has developed a nationwide network of twenty Atomic Energy Cancer Hospitals, the recent one constructed in Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir. These hospitals treat over 40,000 new cancer patients every year where around one million cancer-related procedures performed annually. Together, they treat approximately 80 percent of the country’s cancer burden.