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, […]

Would the United States come to the defense of Taiwan if the People’s Republic of China (PRC) invaded? Would the US Navy break a PRC blockade of Taiwan? How would the US military respond to a limited missile strike against military facilities in Taiwan? What would the United States do if the PRC seized one of Taiwan’s offshore islands? Would […]

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 […]

Pakistan’s military spokesman said on Wednesday India had fired missiles at five locations, vowing that the country would respond to the attacks at a “time and place of its own choosing.” The development comes amid heightened tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors in the aftermath of an attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir last month in which 26 men were killed. […]

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 2, 2025, in an interesting turn of events, leaders of different political parties, people’s organisations and rights groups staged a protest in the Khammam District of Telangana, demanding that the Central and State governments stop Operation Kagar against the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) and the killing of tribals. Also, a massive human chain was formed at Ambedkar […]

South Asia finds itself locked in a fresh spiral of hostility and uncertainty. The terror strike in Kashmir’s Pahalgam on April 22, which claimed 26 lives, has triggered a dangerously familiar script between India and Pakistan. But this time, the escalation is different. It is more volatile, more multi-dimensional, and far more ominous. In a region already burdened by economic […]