US ambassador Donald Blome’s visit to the Pakistani port city of Gwadar raised a lot of heat and dust in the desert lands of Balochistan. The glare on the ambassador’s visit on September 12 remains…
The Baloch Liberation Army’s Majeed Brigade stuns Pakistan’s…
The last 40 hours may have been the longest in the life of the Pakistani Army. An armed group fighting for the liberation of Balochistan—the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), attacked the Pakistani Frontier Corps (FC)…
With fifty shades of militants—will Taliban ruled Afghanistan…
The multiple deadly bombings at the Kabul airport, have highlighted two things—the vulnerabilities of the ruling Taliban and the frail reality of Afghanistan overrun by terrorists of all kinds. Nearly four decades of conflict has…
Afghan humanitarian crisis grows bigger with Kabul under…
The Afghan women have pulled out their burqas. The men have stopped shaving their faces. People are withdrawing their money. The poor are lining up on borders that Pakistan has closed while the rich are…
India reaches out to Pacific island nations as…
A reluctant power, India has been pitchforked right into the middle of the Indo-Pacific power play as nations battle it out over trade, the origins of the coronavirus, human rights violations, keeping shipping routes open…
Chinese fishing trawlers swamp Arabian Sea, Baloch fishermen…
Pakistan has given fishing rights to China in the Arabian Sea near Gwadar port in Balochistan. Now, the sea on the Baloch coastline is dotted with hundreds of Chinese fishing boats. Pakistan has given licenses…
Myanmar coup cements relations between pro-democracy protestors and…
The violence in Myanmar, continuing endlessly since the February 1 military coup, has brought unlikely groups together – peaceful civilian protestors and some of Myanmar's ethnic rebel groups fighting for independence. The Myanmar military is…
France joins anti-China coalition, sends nuclear submarine to…
Last week France put a nuclear submarine in the contested waters of the South China Sea, joining countries like the US, Australia, and Japan to confront the Chinese challenge in the Indo-Pacific region. French Defence…
‘Operation Trident’—the audacious attack on Karachi harbour on…
India celebrates the Indian Navy Day every year on December 4 to commemorate Operation Trident under which the Indian Navy executed a lethal attack on the Karachi harbour during the 1971 Indo-Pak war. India carried…