While the world has been distracted, even amused, by the diplomatic tussle around China’s recent high-altitude balloon flights across North America, there are signs that Beijing and Washington are preparing for something so much more serious: armed conflict over Taiwan. Reviewing recent developments in the Asia-Pacific region raises a tried-and-true historical lesson that bears repeating at this dangerous moment in […]

There’s something irrational about President Biden’s knee-jerk dismissal of China’s 12-point peace proposal titled “China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis.” “Not rational” is how Biden described the plan that calls for de-escalation toward a ceasefire, respect for national sovereignty, establishment of humanitarian corridors and resumption of peace talks. “Dialogue and negotiation are the only viable solution […]

Leading members of the fundamentalist group blame supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada for the country’s unsustainable drift The clash of internal currents is wearing the movement down a year and a half after it regained power in Afghanistan. He did not even appear in public when the Taliban regained power two decades later. Hibatullah Akhundzada praised his movement’s advance in every […]

Two alleged militants were killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in Shapok and Sammi areas of Kech district on Thursday. Officials said security forces had launched a search operation on a tip-off about the presence of suspected militants in the mountainous area of Kech district. The alleged militants were identified as Shoaib and Yahya who belonged to […]

89 TTP men also arrested in covert operations that lasted 11 months In a major breakthrough, the counter-terrorism authorities have arrested over 170 most-wanted terrorists in a series of covert operations spanning over 11 months across the country’s largest province of Punjab. Samaa’s Investigation Unit gained access to official documents, which revealed that the Punjab Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) launched covert […]