The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global money laundering and terrorism financing watchdog, starts a two-day meeting in Paris on Thursday and is expected to take up removal of Pakistan from a list of countries under “increased monitoring”. In a meeting in June, the FATF said it was keeping Pakistan on the list – also known as the “grey […]

US Senator Josh Hawley has called for the establishment of a Senate Select Committee to investigate the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan in August last year. According to an ABC-affiliated news outlet, Hawley said: “There needs to be real accountability here.” Hawley introduced legislation to establish a 20-member committee to review intelligence, interview U.S. officials, and to hold public hearings. […]

Pakistani forces opened fire at an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) check post in Kandahar province on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, local officials said. Officials said that there had been a short clash between IEA forces and Pakistani forces in Spinboldak district of Kandahar. Officials said Pakistani forces opened fire on the IEA at a check post for no […]

On September 20, in his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again criticized India for failing to resolve the dispute with Pakistan and establish “just, lasting peace and prosperity in Kashmir”. Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar “hit back at the Turks” by meeting his Cypriot and Greek counterparts Ioannis […]

In 1990, the indigenous Kashmir Pandit [KP] community which had been living in Kashmir Valley for centuries was targeted by so called ‘freedom fighters’ [a euphemism for indoctrinated Kashmiri youth trained and armed by Pakistan army’s ISI to let loose a reign of terror in Kashmir] and forced to flee their ancestral homes. Instead of condemning this brazen act of […]

The 79-year-old US President Joe Biden, while talking about US foreign policy during a private Democratic Party fundraiser in California, made a comment about Pakistan, saying Pakistan may be “one of the most dangerous nations in the world” as it has “nuclear weapons without any cohesion.” The remarks came at a most critical moment in the patchy relations between the […]

In late August 2022, news broke that Apple was in talks to manufacture its famed Apple Watches and MacBooks in Vietnam for the first time. Some view this as a move by transnational corporations and their core suppliers to diversify their production away from China, buffering themselves from intensifying US–China geoeconomic competition. Others interpret this as a sign of Vietnam’s […]

President Xi Jinping kicked off the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) National Congress, which charts its policy trajectory for the next five years and finalises its future leadership, with an address to the Party faithful for nearly 1 hour and 45 minutes. This year, the CCP’s leadership conclave comes amidst a major strain on the Chinese economy with important segments like […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said this week Tehran was ready to host an extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers of Afghanistan’s neighboring states in order to help ensure regional security. Speaking at a meeting in Tehran with Mohammad Sadiq Khan, the Pakistani prime minister’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Amirabdollahian described the relations between Tehran and Islamabad as excellent and underlined […]

Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon has again expressed concern over security threats posed by Afghanistan to the region and has called for a “security belt” to be built around the country. Addressing delegates attending an International and Regional Border Security and Management Cooperation to Counter Terrorism conference on Tuesday in Dushanbe, Rahmon said “the transfer of terrorist fighters from the war-torn […]