A total of 57 seats across 8 states polled on June 1 in the last and final phase of the ongoing general elections in India. The announcement of results is scheduled for June 4, 2024. Voting for all seats in the northern border state of Punjab will take place in this last and final phase, 13 constituencies being Gurudaspur, Amritsar, […]

Last month, Afghanistan was hit by yet another major natural disaster. There was significant flooding in the northern provinces of Badakhshan, Baghlan, and Takhar. Estimates vary but it is thought that hundreds of people died and thousands were displaced from their homes. This latest catastrophe comes on the heels of a series of earthquakes in western parts of the country […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) holds a firm grip on Afghanistan which is crucial for Russia, Zamir Kabulov, Russia’s special presidential representative for Afghanistan and Director of the Foreign Ministry’s Second Asia Department, said. “We believe that this government is holding consistent control over the country. This is fundamentally important for us,” Kabulov said on the Rossiya-24 television channel, […]

The Ministry of Energy of Kyrgyzstan plans to start electricity exports through Afghanistan to Pakistan under the CASA-1000 project next year. The $1.2bn CASA-1000 regional power project is designed to interconnect the power grids of the four participating countries, allowing for hydro power-generated electricity to be exported from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Based on Kyrgyzstan’s plan, about […]

J&K: Opportunity at Hand On May 18, 2024, a former Sarpanch (head of panchayat, village level self-government institution) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker, Ajaz Ahmad Sheikh, was shot dead by terrorists at Herpora village in the Shopian District of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). On the same day, a tourist couple, identified as Farah Khan and Tabrez Khan of Jaipur, […]

Ahmad Zia Saraj served as the General Director of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from September 2019 until August, 15, 2021. He is currently a visiting professor at the war studies department of the King’s College London (KCL). Under his leadership, the NDS arrested thousands of terrorists including key Islamic State Khorasan Province […]

Islamic State Khorasan (ISK) emerged in 2015 as an official affiliate of the Islamic State in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, rapidly interweaving its jihad into the web of local conflicts and grievances. Alongside drawing its initial recruits from disaffected members of the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban, as well as former al-Qa`ida Members, ISK bolstered its ranks by forging strategic alliances with […]

In his inaugural address, Taiwan’s new president Lai Ching-te signaled broad continuity on cross-strait issues. China, however, is likely to respond with increased pressure. On May 20, Lai Ching-te assumed the presidency in Taiwan and gave an inaugural address scrutinized in Beijing, Washington, and capitals around the world. The speech provided the most authoritative signal to date of his approach […]

Articles in the latest issue of the “Voice of Khurasan,” an English-language monthly magazine published by Al-Azaim Media Foundation, a media outlet linked to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), which defines itself as a supporting entity for the Islamic State (ISIS), recall the life of Abu Ubaydah ibn Al-Jarrah, the first military commander under Caliph Umar to conquer Jerusalem, […]

The war in Ukraine has been an enormous gift from Russia to China, boosting the status of the yuan and opening up the Russian market for Chinese companies. Beijing’s decision to keep doing business with Moscow after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, along with the nature of Western sanctions, has saved the Kremlin from economic and political […]