On May 7, 2025, between 1:05 and 1:30 a.m. (IST), airstrikes carried out by the Indian Air Force hit nine locations inside Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). It was codenamed Operation Sindoor. Significantly, this is the first time since 1971 that India struck across the international boundary (IB) or the settled and accepted border between India and Pakistan. The […]

The two top diplomats expressed mutual optimism that the remaining formalities would be completed soon, allowing for the full normalization of diplomatic representation. In a significant diplomatic development, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister, Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, held a telephonic conversation with Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Mohammad Ishaq Dar, to discuss the elevation of diplomatic […]

The Pakistani Army is fighting tooth and nail to push its false narrative that it emerged victorious in the recent military confrontation with India. The arch-rival India became the first country to strike 11 airbases of a nuclear-armed nation in a single operation. But despite this fact, Pakistani generals are confident that they will be successful in selling this lie […]

The Trump administration, which had previously displayed a lack of interest in the conflict, then quickly intervened and brokered a ceasefire. “[T]he possession of nuclear weapons may have incentivized risky confrontations that pass just below the ambiguous nuclear threshold.” — Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, May 23, 2025. Pakistan did not have to detonate one of its nuclear warheads to shake […]

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 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 […]

In a significant diplomatic development, India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar held a telephonic conversation with the interim Foreign Minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) Amir Khan Muttaqi, on May 15. Coming on the heels of Operation Sindoor – India’s retaliatory strikes against terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam attack – the EAM reiterated […]

Alright, when most folks think about Pakistan and its fight against terrorism, that one big event – Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad – usually comes to mind, right? And no doubt, that moment put Pakistan under a huge global microscope. But here’s the thing: if that’s all we focus on, we’re missing a much bigger, more tangled story of how […]

On 7 May 2025, exercising its “right to respond”, Indian armed forces launched Operation Sindoor, under which they carried out precision strikes to destroy a network of terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir. [1] The operation was undertaken in the wake of a terror attack in Pahalgam in which 26 tourists were murdered in cold blood. Defence Minister Rajnath […]