It’s almost certainly the case that they’re being sent through Pakistan. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned in mid-July in his address to participants of a regional meeting on stopping the flow of weapons to terrorists in Central Asia that Western arms and ammo from Ukraine are being sent to ISIS-K in Afghanistan. According to him, “The growing capabilities of […]
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Le système satellitaire chinois Beidou redéfinit la guerre entre Téhéran & Washington
Permettez-moi de la résumer. Au cours de la guerre de 12 jours en juin 2025, les missiles et drones iraniens ont peiné face à la guerre électronique élaborée menée par Israël et les États-Unis. Le brouillage et la falsification du GPS ont perturbé à plusieurs reprises leurs systèmes de guidage, limitant ainsi leur efficacité pendant cet intense conflit de 12 […]
Read more ›District in Badakhshan briefly falls to anti-Taliban group
An anti-Taliban group briefly seized control of Yaftal-e-Paeen district in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province early Friday before withdrawing several hours later, local sources told Amu TV. Two local sources said dozens of anti-Taliban fighters attacked the district headquarters at around 2 a.m., disarmed Taliban forces and temporarily took control of the district administration. According to the sources, the fighters identified […]
Read more ›Le dilemme chinois de l’Europe : pourquoi l’UE ne parvient toujours pas à définir la Chine
L’Union européenne persiste à qualifier la Chine de partenaire, de concurrent et de rival systémique—souvent au sein des mêmes cadres politiques. Cette ambiguïté conceptuelle chronique a engendré une approche fragmentée et incohérente, incapable de servir réellement les intérêts économiques fondamentaux de l’Europe ni de répondre de manière adéquate à la nouvelle donne géopolitique. Dérive stratégique et crise de la gouvernance […]
Read more ›Who Decides Childhood in Pakistan: Parliament, Shariah, or the Courts?
Who has the constitutional authority to decide when childhood ends in Pakistan? That question lies at the heart of one of the country’s most significant constitutional challenges, now before the Federal Shariat Court. Yet from its inception, the legislation contained an important limitation. Although it criminalised the conduct of those responsible for child marriages, it did not expressly declare such […]
Read more ›Taliban ministers step up visits to India as ties with Pakistan fray
Four Taliban cabinet ministers have visited India over the past nine months, highlighting growing engagement between New Delhi and the Taliban as their relations with neighboring Pakistan remain strained. The latest visit came last week, when Ataullah Omari, the Taliban’s acting minister of agriculture, traveled to New Delhi at the head of a delegation. His trip follows earlier visits by […]
Read more ›Iran says ties with Taliban will continue regardless of recognition
Iran’s Foreign Ministry said it will continue expanding relations with the Taliban regardless of whether Tehran formally recognizes their rule, describing recognition as a separate political and legal process. The comments come as Iran maintains close diplomatic and economic ties with the Taliban while stopping short of officially recognizing their rule. Speaking at a news conference, Esmail Baghaei, spokesman for […]
Read more ›SOUTH ASIA INTELLIGENCE REVIEW Volume 25 No. 4
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Quadcopter Proliferation On July 11, 2026, a school teacher, Shaukat Armani, was killed while two of his nephews sustained injuries following a suspected Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) quadcopter drone strike on his residence in the Ladha area of South Waziristan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). On July 7, 2026, one civilian was killed and four were injured after terrorists […]
Read more ›Why oil was never in danger of reaching $200 a barrel
Forecasts that oil could reach $200 a barrel spread rapidly at the start of the US-Iran war and experts pondered whether the Strait of Hormuz could remain closed for a prolonged period. But these dire predictions never materialised. The highest level the global benchmark price, Brent crude futures, reached was $126. Even that spike was brief. Before the recent escalation […]
Read more ›Invalid ‘arbitral award’ muddied South China Sea
It’s been 10 years since the arbitral tribunal constituted under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) issued the so-called South China Sea “arbitral award” on July 12, 2016, but some scholars — particularly those from claimant states — continue to celebrate it as a decisive clarification that reshaped the maritime claims and long-standing disputes in […]
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