India’s message to Pakistan is loud and clear. India’s resolve to combat terrorism is unwavering, and no external or internal support to Pakistan from China can guarantee protection from India’s military might. If Pakistan thinks it is better prepared to handle retaliation this time, as compared to post Uri and Pulwama, it is living in a fool’s paradise. And if […]

May 6, 2025 midnight is etched in the history of South Asian security politics. The Indian Air Force, in a joint air and missile strike that it called Operation Sindoor, crossed the Line of Control (LoC) to pound a number of targets in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and Pakistan’s Punjab province. The strikes, justified as being a pre-emptive counter-terrorist operation by Indian government, led […]

If India and Pakistan spiral into war, there will be consequences for Central Asia. A war between Pakistan and India would likely have significant ripple effects on Central Asia, given the region’s proximity to Afghanistan and flourishing economic ties across the region. The conflict could disrupt trade and energy routes, increase militancy, and draw in major powers like China, Russia, […]

After the Pahalgam tragedy, India carried out swift and baseless accusations against Pakistan, resorting to its usual blaming without evidence. Pakistan continued to hold principled stance and rejected these allegations as baseless and politically motivated. To put an end to India’s propaganda and present an objective picture of the incident, Pakistan appealed for a neutral international investigation led by the […]

Since the beginning of the 21st century, Pakistan has become one of the leading fronts combating terrorism. The nation has lost countless soldiers and spent a great deal of financial resources to eradicate the networks of extremism, which pose a great danger to regional and international security. Although there were continuous doubts regarding Pakistan, it has never given up to […]

On April 30, 2025, Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) cadres killed a State-backed ‘death squad’ member, Zubair Abid, in the Malikabad area of Tump tehsil(revenue unit) in the Kech District of Balochistan. In a statement issued on May 1, BLA ‘spokesperson’ Jeeyand Baloch declared that the group’s fighters had ‘neutralised’ Zubair Abid, described as a key operative of a “military-backed death […]

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.

Indian armed forces attacked sites belonging to three Pakistan-based militant groups that India says carried out strikes on its territory, according to an intelligence document shared with Newsweek after the assault. Tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors ratcheted up after gunmen massacred 26 people, mostly Indian tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir last month. India struck nine targets inside Pakistan, saying these were […]

Pakistan has issued a warning to India, demanding an end to its military operations or risk further escalation following Indian airstrikes under ‘Operation Sindoor’ in response to the killing of tourists in Kashmir. Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said Pakistan is “willing to wrap up these things” if India halts its actions, but cautioned, “If India attacks, we’ll respond.” The […]

India and Pakistan appear once again to be inching towards the precipice of a perilous confrontation in the wake of a terrorist attack in Pahalgam in the heavily militarized region of Kashmir. The assault left 26 Indian tourists dead. Without waiting for even the semblance of an investigation, India rushed to accuse Pakistan within minutes after the incident. Subsequently, New […]