Balochistan: Unending Carnage On January 8, 2025, Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) cadres seized control of the whole of Zehri town in the Khuzdar District of Balochistan for almost eight hours, and set fire to multiple Government buildings, including a Levies Force station, NADRA and municipal committee offices and a bank. According to local officials, around 80 cadres entered the area […]

There are two prevailing views on China’s economy this year: pessimistic and optimistic. Optimists believe that with the government’s intensive rollout of policies in the fourth quarter and the frequent release of central government meeting directives, China’s economy will continue to improve in 2025. This view believes that the supporting conditions and fundamental trends for the country’s long-term growth have […]

Bangladesh is at a crossroads. In the summer of 2024, a student-led revolution unseated Sheikh Hasina, one of South Asia’s most entrenched leaders, marking a potential turning point in the nation’s tumultuous political history. For years, Hasina’s rule epitomised the authoritarian drift of a country that had once aspired to democracy. Prompted by the July Revolution, her resignation offers a […]

The year just ended was a tumultuous one for Afghanistan, marked by many significant events that will continue to challenge the country in 2025. ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K) carried out at least 19 terrorist attacks, targeting Hazara and Shia civilians, Sufi adherents, foreign nationals and Taliban officials. One notable incident was the assassination of Khalil Rahman Haqqani, a senior Taliban leader and […]

On 16 October 2024, Omar Abdullah was sworn in as the chief minister of the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), a space marked by significant regional divisions in political preferences. This divide was evidenced by the considerable variance in the area-wise performance of political parties in the three-phase assembly election held during September-October 2024. The National Conference […]