Key Takeaways: After being delayed for more than 25 years, the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway has finally entered the stage of substantive advancement. This undoubtedly marks a major milestone in the development of China’s westward-opening corridors, yet the deeper geostrategic significance of this project remains largely overlooked and has yet to receive the attention it deserves. For a long time, the […]

Key Takeaways: The trajectory of United States (US)-Pakistan relations since January 2025 represents a symbolic, if not yet substantive, upswing in bilateral ties—the sharpest since the early 2000s. Any deliberate strategic reassessment in Washington has not driven this resuscitation. It rests instead on personalised diplomacy centred on President Donald Trump, transactional offerings from Islamabad in trade, critical minerals, and cryptocurrency, […]

La bombe nucléaire n’est pas la principale menace pour le monde. Il existe quelque chose de bien plus dangereux. La principale menace dans la confrontation entre les États-Unis et la Chine n’est pas la parité militaire, mais la surestimation mutuelle de ses propres capacités. La question devrait être de savoir comment éviter le conflit et travailler ensemble à l’élimination des […]

Speaking to Amu TV, former UN terrorism sanctions official Edmund Fitton-Brown says the Afghan Taliban have supported cooperation between al-Qaeda and TTP, helping create a cross-border threat to Pakistan. former UN terrorism sanctions official Edmund Fitton-Brown said the Taliban should not be viewed as reliable counterterrorism partners for the West, arguing they target ISKP primarily because it threatens their rule […]

The Taliban’s director of information and culture in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province was killed in a shooting on Tuesday, Taliban officials and a source told Amu TV, in the latest sign of deteriorating security in a province that has seen weeks of unrest. A source familiar with the incident said Zabihullah Amiri was traveling on the road between Faizabad, the […]

Il existe en Occident une approche de la relation Inde et Chine qui pèche par des oublis historiques majeurs mais surtout par une tonalité passéiste et néocoloniale. Cette manière de voir la relation entre la Chine et l’Inde à travers le prisme de la conflictualité est pour ma part contraire à la réalité, à l’histoire et à mon expérience personnelle. […]

For decades Gulf money has poured into luxury property markets, trophy assets and the world’s best-known financial centres. But increasingly it is heading to a former Silk Road hub, where ageing gas infrastructure, a rapidly growing population and economic reforms offer the opportunity to invest in a new energy system. Uzbekistan is the largest market for Saudi Arabian utilities group […]

Fighting between Taliban and the Freedom Front continued for a third consecutive day on Sunday in parts of the northeastern province of Badakhshan, local sources said, as both sides issued conflicting accounts of the battlefield and claimed to have inflicted heavy losses on each other. Residents told Amu TV that intermittent clashes continued overnight in the districts of Zebak, Yaftal […]

Taliban said on Sunday that Uzbekistan is seeking to accelerate the implementation of joint economic projects, following meetings in Kabul between senior Taliban officials and an Uzbek delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Jamshid Khojayev. According to a Taliban statement, Khojayev said Tashkent wants to speed up projects already agreed upon with Taliban and begin implementing commitments made in the […]

Fighting between Taliban and the Freedom Front continued in parts of Badakhshan on Monday, according to local residents and sources within the Taliban, as clashes entered a second week. Residents and Taliban sources in the province told Amu TV that fighting continued for several hours overnight in different parts of Zebak district, which has emerged as the center of the […]