Avec Donald Trump à la Maison-Blanche, les dynamiques du pouvoir mondial évoluent, et la Chine se positionne comme un partenaire de plus en plus attractif et fiable pour les nations du monde entier. Alors que les États-Unis, sous un deuxième mandat de Trump, privilégient le protectionnisme et l’unilatéralisme, semant le chaos parmi leurs alliés les plus proches, Pékin profite de […]

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported that 73,364 Afghans returned to their country in the third week of March, while 36,166 others left. The main reason for this increase from neighboring Pakistan and Iran is voluntary return, IOM said. According to the flow monitoring snapshot released by the IOM, compared to the previous week, the inflow movement in […]

Data Cutoff: March 25, 2025 The China–Taiwan Weekly Update is a joint product from the Institute for the Study of War and the American Enterprise Institute. The update supports the ISW–AEI Coalition Defense of Taiwan project, which assesses Chinese campaigns against Taiwan, examines alternative strategies for the United States and its allies to deter the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) aggression, […]

Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province in terms of area has been rocked by multiple massive attacks recently. These attacks by Baloch insurgents, especially the attack on the Jaffar Express by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) have raised a very valid question: Is the Pakistani Army really in control of Balochistan? This train hijacking left dozens dead and triggered a 30-hour military […]

No one knows how Kamran Hasan became a militant. The history-loving 23-year-old had returned home from Islamabad, where he worked as a chartered accountant, and had his hopes set on a degree in education. But then in June, he disappeared. A brief phone call to his father came days later. “He told me, ‘I am going to the mountains,’” says […]

The US National Intelligence Agency has excluded Afghanistan from its latest annual report on terrorist threats to national security, released Tuesday, despite documented evidence of Islamic State (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda presence in the Taliban-controlled nation. This marks a stark shift from last year’s assessment, which referenced Afghanistan six times and the Taliban eight times. The 2025 US Intelligence Community’s global […]

In 2018, Chinese leader Xi Jinping argued that the world was undergoing “profound changes unseen in a century,” a concept that has since become central to Beijing’s geopolitical worldview. The phrase evoked parallels to the dramatic global shifts that followed World War I, including the collapse of European empires and the reordering of international politics. Today, Beijing perceives a similar […]

Sindh: Criminal surge On March 8, 2025, six members of the Ahmadi community were arrested by the Khawaja Ajmer Nagri Police Station in the Surjani Town of Karachi city, after being taken into “protective custody” following threats from a sectarian group, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP). On the previous day, at least 25 members of the Ahmadi community, including children, had been […]

On March 8, 2025, six members of the Ahmadi community were arrested by the Khawaja Ajmer Nagri Police Station in the Surjani Town of Karachi city, after being taken into “protective custody” following threats from a sectarian group, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP). On the previous day, at least 25 members of the Ahmadi community, including children, had been taken into “protective […]

On March 10, 2025, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi informed the Assembly that Security Forces (SFs) had eliminated 118 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres in the state over the past decade. Chief Minister Majhi was responding to a written question of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Kanhai Charan Danga, and stated that, between […]