A suicide bomber targeted a truck carrying security forces in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, wounding at least eight people, police said, amid increasing violence in the region. The attack took place in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan and is a former stronghold of the militant Pakistani Taliban group, also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. No one […]

With millions more internally displaced as well as an estimated 2.3 million residing in neighboring Pakistan and Iran, Afghan refugees are among the biggest and longest-lasting refugee communities in the world. After the Soviet invasion in 1979, the civil war in the 1990s, and the invasion of Afghanistan by the United States in 2001, the bulk of Afghan refugees left […]

After decades of conflict, the two major Sunni and Shia states restored diplomatic connections, making the March 10th peace pact between two of the Middle East’s key regional powers, Saudi Arabia and Iran, the most surprising event of the year. The conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran is multi-faceted and protracted as the tensions between the two began after the […]

The Pakistan’s government’s economic revival plan includes an important initiative known as the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC). Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif leads this council, which consists of federal ministers, provincial chiefs, and COAS, Gen. Syed Asim Munir. Its primary objective is to attract substantial foreign direct investment (FDI) by streamlining and simplifying complex bureaucratic procedures. The prime minister’s office […]

Pakistan’s LamentIslamabad has a perpetual grudge that it isn’t taken seriously by the global community. While this observation is undeniably true, international apathy towards Pakistan is not due to politicking or vested commercial interests [as it claims], but solely due to Islamabad’s unabashed duplicity. With the Pakistan army brazenly following its morbid strategy of nurturing terrorist groups as ‘strategic assets’ […]

There is no indication that Afghan refugees in Pakistan or along its border have engaged in acts of terrorism, the White House said, after Pakistan’s army expressed concern that militants had found safe havens in Afghanistan. “We’ve seen no indication that Afghan refugees in Pakistan or along that border are guilty of acts of terrorism,” White House National Security Council […]

Pakistan is expected to send its Special Representative on Afghanistan Ambassador Asif Durrani to Kabul this week to discuss the issue of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the country. According to Pakistani media, Durrani is scheduled to leave for Kabul on Wednesday. His visit comes against the backdrop of complaints by Pakistani officials recently that the Islamic Emirate is providing […]

Sitting in a class on a subject relating to psychological warfare and how propaganda works can reveal a state’s ambitions and how some individuals continue to work for that state to do propaganda. There are three kinds of psychological narratives as black, grey, and white propaganda. Leaving the third one aside, grey and black propaganda works completely in which the […]

On July 12, 2023, one Police Constable, identified as Mohsin Azam, was killed and another three Policemen sustained injuries during an attack by unidentified terrorists on the newly established Police check posts in the Faqiran Masjid area of Mir Ali Tehsil (revenue unit) in the North Waziristan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). On July 5, 2023, three Security Force (SF) […]

Due to the deteriorating political and security situation in the country, many speculate that Pakistan’s nuclear program could fall victim to intrusion by terror or fanatic groups. While the subject has been raised on the international forum numerous times and countered effectively as many times, it is important to take a fresh look at Pakistan’s efforts to secure its nuclear […]