The Pakistani military has said the fencing project along the Durand Line with Afghanistan will continue despite issues raised in recent weeks. Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Maj Gen Babar Iftikhar said on Wednesday that 94% of the border fence has been completed and that work on the remaining section continues. “We are totally focused, and under the western […]

Following an investigation into prisoners by Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) officials in Kandahar, 50 inmates were released from the local prison. The prisoners, who had been held on criminal charges, were released following a probe by a prisons regulatory administration delegation. The head of the delegation, Mawolavi Abdulhadi Mali Akhundzada, said the prisoners were found to have been innocent. […]

Reports of the recent period are indicative of tensions between the Taliban forces and the Pakistani military deployed on their border. On December 22, the Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman disclosed that the Taliban forces had stopped the Pakistani military from erecting an “illegal” border fence along the eastern Nangarhar province. A video circulating in the social media showed that Taliban […]

The Lanza 3D Deployable Air Defence Radar (DADR) developed by Indra, a leading global technology and consulting company, has successfully passed NATO’s tests, certifying the sensor’s tactical ballistic missile detection and tracking capabilities. The radar, initially developed with the support of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, demonstrated its capacity to detect and track […]

On December 30, six people were killed and 13 were injured in an explosion near the Science College at Jinnah Road in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. On December 29, 2021, two Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) officials, identified as Constable Ashraf and Constable Irfan, were killed in a gun attack in Turbat town […]

Pakistan’s economic meltdown on the verge of 2022 presenting a woeful geopolitical spectacle of South Asia’s second Nuclear Weapons State economically begging on its knees, arising from decades of Pakistan’s imperial pretensions in Afghanistan attempting to have a colonial hold over Kabul regimes. Installing an Afghan Taliban regime in Kabul for the second time in August 2021 is a Pyrrhic […]

India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla recently made a two-day visit to Myanmar, his first since the coup in February. As India and Myanmar share an almost 1,700 kilometer border, “peace and stability in Myanmar” is of importance to India, especially to the adjacent Indian northeast. A press release issued by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) highlighted this, […]

Pakistan said Monday it was engaging with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers through diplomatic channels to resolve “some confusions” stemming from the installation of a security fence on the porous border separating the two countries. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told a news conference in Islamabad that his country was determined to protect its “interests” and continue unilateral fencing Pakistan’s nearly 2,600-kilometer […]

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Monday Islamabad would continue fencing the border with Afghanistan while hoping that contentious issues would be resolved with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) authorities through diplomatic channels. Addressing a press conference on Monday, Qureshi said: “We have erected the fence and we will continue to fence the border.” Dawn News reported […]

Officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) said that they will create a special battalion of Istishhad (martyrdom soldiers) to be part of their future army. During an interview with Radio RFE/RL the deputy minister of information and culture and spokesperson of the IEA Zabiullah Mujahid said that the battalion will be part of their special forces and will […]