Sri Lanka’s September 22, 2026 Easter Sunday judgment marks a decisive legal reckoning with one of the country’s deadliest terrorist attacks, convicting 15 of 24 defendants after an extensive examination of thousands
Pakistan’s 27th Constitutional Amendment Bill, passed on November 8, 2025, marks a decisive transformation in the country’s power structure, formally entrenching the military’s dominance within the constitutional framework. The amendment establishes the
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Pakistan’s decision to grant Bangladesh access to the Karachi Port marks a significant recalibration in South Asia’s geopolitical and economic landscape. Finalized on October 27, 2025, during the ninth session of the
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On October 18, 2025, successive air strikes by Pakistan in Paktika Province killed eight people, including three club cricketers attending a post-match gathering. The incident sparked particular outrage and inflamed public sentiment
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The overnight clashes of October 11–12, 2025, along the volatile 2,640-kilometre Durand Line between Afghanistan and Pakistan marked one of the deadliest confrontations in recent years, resulting in several deaths and reigniting
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A significant escalation in regional tensions occurred on October 9, 2025, when Pakistan conducted an airstrike in Kabul near Abdul Haq Square, targeting Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Noor Wali Mehsud. While the
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On October 7, 2025, the seventh Moscow Format meeting convened in Moscow, marking a significant step in regional diplomacy on Afghanistan. Attended by representatives from Russia, China, India, Iran, Pakistan, and Central
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The violent unrest that gripped Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) in late September and early October 2025 has once again exposed the deep fissures between the region’s population and the Pakistani state.
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On September 24, 2025, Leh District in the Union Territory (UT) of Ladakh witnessed its deadliest day of unrest in decades, as protests demanding Statehood and constitutional safeguards for Ladakh escalated into
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On the intervening night of April 4 and April 5, 2025, the Border Security Force (BSF) killed an unidentified Pakistani infiltrator along the International Border (IB) in the Abdullian area of the
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“The bickering nation”. This one sentence aptly describes the current state of Pakistan, where the two major terrorist/insurgent formations – the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an umbrella group of 56 terrorist outfits, and
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The ‘political landscape’ of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan is in increasing turmoil. A deep divide has emerged between the Kandahari group led by Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and the Haqqani Group led by
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On November 21, 2024, terrorists opened fire on a passenger convoy in the Kurram District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) killing at least 38 persons and injuring 11. At the time of writing,
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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
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Puncturing the euphoria created a by section of experts that Taliban 2.0 would be strikingly different from the Taliban regime of 1996-2001, and that things would change for the better in war-ravaged
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At the time of writing, Pakistan’s political landscape is full of chaos. The General Election 2024 results have not only thrown up a hung National Assembly, but have done so after a
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