China’s efforts to build economic and political influence in South Asia are running into significant headwinds, including with its longtime ally, Pakistan. Chinese relations with historic rival India remain tense over periodic border clashes and New Delhi’s participation in several U.S.-backed regional security groupings. Pakistani citizens have demonstrated against the conditions imposed by China for investments in Pakistan under Beijing’s […]

A member of the Canadian parliament has called on the Liberal government to lift barriers preventing Canadians from providing aid in Afghanistan. On Thursday, a motion from New Democratic Party Foreign Affairs Critic Heather McPherson was adopted unanimously by the House of Commons Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee, calling on the government to immediately amend sections of the Criminal […]

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) warned Saturday of more attacks against law enforcement officers, a day after four people were killed when a suicide squad stormed a police compound in Karachi. The police are often used on the frontline of Pakistan’s battle with the TTP and are frequently a target of militants who accuse them of extra-judicial killings, AFP reported. Last month, […]

At the sidelines of the week-long Aero India 2023 show, Deputy Director of the Russia Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Vladimir Drozhzhov shared details regarding its offer to the Indian Navy to “jointly develop” a non-nuclear attack submarine based on the former’s Amur-1650 with up to 80 percent localization production. The proposal came after Russia said it would not participate […]

Speaking in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, Indian Islamic cleric Shabbir Ahmed Siddiqui, who is the imam of Jama Masjid in Ahmedabad, said that “Whoever gives [election] tickets to Muslim women is rebelling against Islam… This will weaken our religion.” Siddiqui argued that women should be forbidden from participating in elections on the same grounds that they are forbidden from […]

On March 30, 2018, the China Military Network, an official People’s Liberation Army (PLA) outlet, published a report titled “An Omnipotent Weapon – How Amazing Are Near-Space Vehicles?” [1] The article was written by a researcher named Qiang Tianlin, and it describes the strategic and tactical advantages that near-space vehicles, including airships, can provide as weapons and military communications platforms. […]

Set against the backdrop of Russia’s war on Ukraine, the June 2022 Madrid NATO Summit set the tone for the next decade of the Alliance’s shared future. Allies made it clear that they consider Russia their most immediate and direct threat. Yet they also made headlines by addressing challenges emanating from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Allies laid out […]

This [spy balloon’s eight-day flight] path certainly suggests China is gathering intelligence for either a first or second strike on America’s nukes. Combined with the green lasers collecting atmospheric data useful for a strike by a hypersonic glide vehicle on Hawaii, American defense planners should be alarmed. The real story is that the Pentagon was caught off-guard by the recent […]

On February 2, 2023, a huge Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) supply dump was recovered during a combing operation by Security Forces (SFs) in Bhuruti Forest under Narla Police limits in the Kalahandi District of Odisha. The seized items include one Bharmar (country made muzzle loading gun), 11 electric detonators, gun powder, electric wire, batteries, Mosquito nets, water bottles, one […]

On February 3, 2023, activists of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) vandalised and demolished the minarets of an Ahmadi Mosque in the presence of the Police, near the mobile market in the Hashoo Market area of Saddar Town, Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh. On January 18, 2023, TLP activists demolished the domes and minarets of an Ahmadi Mosque in the Martin […]