Incontrovertibly Pakistan has been the country that bore the extreme brunt of extremism. Due to its significant geostrategic location, it has been the epicentre of the US war against terrorism in Afghanistan making it more vulnerable to violence spilling over from the neighbouring war-raged country. Apart from the Afghanistan factor, Pakistan remained the earmark of terror attacks for hosting Chinese […]

The contest for control of northern Afghanistan between the Taliban, the Islamic State, and other terrorist groups is a major security concern for the states of Central Asia. Since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan have relied on the Taliban to prevent non-state actors from operating in northern Afghanistan and launching cross-border […]

According to Forbes.kz, Kazakhstan’s top-three wealthiest amassed an additional $2.5 billion in one year. The Nazarbayev family was prominently featured in this year’s Forbes list of Kazakhstan’s richest people, but the country’s First President himself did not appear in the ranking, showing the limits of the system’s transparency. Nursultan Nazarbayev, who left the presidency in 2019 after three decades in […]

The new government could either take the decision of cutting fuel subsidies or call for fresh elections and leave that tough decision to an interim government. There is a meme on the internet showing three children playing a videogame but only two have their controller cords plugged into the console. The third child, who appears to be the youngest, is […]