Following a terrorist attack in Kashmir, India and Pakistan are heading toward a conflict, with few signs of de-escalation. Following last week’s terrorist attacks in the disputed Kashmir region, India and Pakistan have taken escalatory moves that have placed the two nuclear-armed powers on the verge of conflict. The two exchanged cross border fire, expelled diplomatic personnel, closed land border […]

India’s aerial attacks on Pakistan mark a sharp escalation in tensions between the two nuclear-armed nations following an attack in Kashmir that killed twenty-six tourists and posing a dilemma for U.S. policymakers. Manjari Chatterjee Miller is a senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, and professor of international relations and Munk chair in […]

On May 21, 2025, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Bhagwant Singh aka Manna Bhatti from Akalgarh village in Amritsar district, Punjab, for his alleged involvement in the March 15, 2025, grenade attack on a temple in Amritsar, carried out by operatives affiliated with the Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF). According to the NIA, Bhagwant Singh played a key logistical role, […]

On May 21, 2025, in a major tactical blow to the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), Nambala Keshava Rao aka Basava Raju aka Ganganna aka Krishna aka Vijay aka Prakash (70), the ‘general secretary’ of the party (the highest executive post), a ‘Politburo member’, ‘Central Committee (CC)’ member, and Central Military Commission (CMC)’ member, was killed along with 26 other […]

Les scientifiques chinois soumis à la suspicion quittent l’Amérique en masse, un exode qui fait pencher la balance mondiale de l’innovation en faveur de la Chine. L’auteur pose également la question de la capacité pour l’appareil gouvernemental communiste de ne pas avoir des abrutis imbus de leur pouvoir et ne sachant pas gérer une main d’œuvre aussi demandée. Que l’on […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing the Joint Session of the US Congress in June 2016, declared that India had overcome the “hesitations of history”.[1] These long-standing “hesitations” ranged from the US support to Pakistan in the UN Security Council on the Kashmir issue, threats and intimidation in the Bay of Bengal resorted to by the US in 1971 during […]

Maoists: Crippled movement On May 21, 2025, in a major tactical blow to the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), Nambala Keshava Rao aka Basava Raju aka Ganganna aka Krishna aka Vijay aka Prakash (70), the ‘general secretary’ of the party (the highest executive post), a ‘Politburo member’, ‘Central Committee (CC)’ member, and Central Military Commission (CMC)’ member, was killed along […]

During the short-lived Pakistan-India war on May 7-10, 2025, triggered by the April 22 jihadi terror attack at Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, former mujahideen leader and chief of Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan Gulbuddin Hekmatyar wrote a long article in which he outlined the Islamist position on the interests of the Islamic Ummah in such situations.[1] The article, titled “Our Country And […]

On May 12, 2025, Al-Mursalat, a media outlet associated with the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP), published a Pashto-language article aimed at readers in Pakistan-Afghanistan region and criticizing Muslims who protest and vow to wage jihad against Israel but do not fight unbelievers in their home countries. The article, titled “Isn’t It A Strange Passion!” and written by one by […]

On May 3, Hindukush Ghag, a website associated with the General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI) of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban), said that the Shi’ite Afghan politician Mohammad Mohaqiq’s recent visit to Iran was meant to create proxy groups in Balochistan.[1] A delegation of anti-Taliban opposition leaders visited Iran during the last week of April […]