Pékin construit un système où les ressources sont gérées comme des armes – avec précision, délibérément, sans chichis. C’est le contrôle du mécanisme d’accès. Les terres rares passent du statut de marchandise à celui de monnaie de confiance. Le métal qui fait trembler la Silicon Valley La Chine contrôle plus de 80% de l’extraction et de la transformation mondiales des […]

Whether we are talking about the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, the Al-Tanf base in Syria or the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, they all share one undeniable quality: immense strategic importance in shaping today’s world order. Not long ago, US President Donald Trump publicly announced that it was time for the United States to take Bagram back. […]

Nearly two weeks after the Doha truce and three busy days of negotiations in Istanbul, the government of Pakistan and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan have failed to conclusively resolve their differences. The failure of negotiations at a moment when South Asia has entered a new normal of violating the sovereignty of neighboring states signifies the growing strategic instability in […]

Islamabad (TDI): Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar said early Wednesday that the latest round of talks between Islamabad and Kabul in Istanbul had failed to produce a workable solution. He added that Pakistan would continue to take every necessary measure to protect its citizens from terrorism. The discussions followed days of fighting along the Pakistan–Afghanistan border and […]

As President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping prepared for their Thursday meeting in South Korea, trade talks between Washington and Beijing had fallen into a familiar pattern. Trump’s tariff threats pushed China to the negotiating table; Beijing countered with trade restrictions on critical minerals; Washington raised tariffs again, and on and on. It seemed like a tit-for-tat cycle […]

Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is quietly staging a comeback in Bangladesh, leveraging shifting political winds, porous borders, and radical networks to reassert its strategic footprint in India’s eastern flank. Recent developments point to a resurgence of ISI-linked activities aimed at destabilising both Bangladesh and India, under the cover of growing “defence cooperation” between Dhaka and Islamabad.

The rise of Islamist extremism in South Asia is entering a new and troubling phase. Their real goal, however, is far darker than banning a Hindu organization: it is to purge majority-Muslim Bangladesh of its remaining Hindu population and to reshape the country into a theocratic state. In a disturbing development, the government’s response to a court petition demanding a […]

On October 29, 2025, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, Mary Lawlor, expressed concern over the inclusion of several Baloch activists on Pakistan’s terrorist Watchlist under Section 11-EE of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) 1997. In a statement shared on X (formerly Twitter), Lawlor observed that “that more human rights defenders in #Balochistan, including Sabiha Baloch, Shalee […]

US President Donald Trump has said he expects to strike a deal when he meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea amid a monthslong trade war with Beijing. “We’re going to be, I hope, making a deal. I think we’re going to have a deal. I think it will be a good deal for both,” Trump said on […]

Whether we are talking about the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, the Al-Tanf base in Syria or the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, they all share one undeniable quality: immense strategic importance in shaping today’s world order. Not long ago, US President Donald Trump publicly announced that it was time for the United States to take Bagram back. […]