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
In March 2008, Colombian jets crossed into Ecuadorian airspace and destroyed a Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) encampment a mile past the border, killing the group’s second-in-command. Ecuador called it a
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Last year, in 2025, 354 civilians were killed in terrorist attacks across Pakistan, while overall terrorist violence rose by about a third. In Balochistan alone, terrorists carried out 254 attacks. In March
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Sky News published a video this month that opens on a rigged explosive device and a pickax under a stark title card, “Inside the Taliban’s Museum of Death.” Three seconds pass before
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On Aug. 18, a three-judge bench of Pakistan’s Supreme Court, Justice Shahid Waheed, Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan, and Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim, ordered the transfer of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan from
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Honey Trehan’s “Satluj” lasted 48 hours online. ZEE5 released the film uncut on July 3 and pulled it two days later, citing only vague current developments as an explanation. The platform still
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In 1965, Herman Kahn drew his famous escalation ladder, a 44-rung scale ranging from ostensible crisis to spasm war. It accounted for surgical strikes, nuclear signaling and targeting of cities. It did
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Pakistan’s Ambassador to Russia, Faisal Niaz Tirmizi, on June 4, 2026, at St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), declared an emerging geopolitical reality, stating that Pakistan would be a natural connector between Belt and Road
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There is a version of Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s (AJK) story that goes untold amid the noise of strikes, long marches and shutdown calls. It is the story of a federal government
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The Abraham Accords have been celebrated as a diplomatic triumph, a necessary step toward a peaceful and integrated Middle East. The proclaimed goals are seductive in their simplicity, including formal ties between
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In the evening of May 24, 2026, an assault on Taliban logistics vehicles was launched in the Afghan district of Surobi, Kabul. One Taliban fighter died, and three others sustained injuries. An organization
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In a development on Monday morning,Iran attacked the UAE through cruise missiles and armed drones targeting the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone, which wounded employees, destroyed the fuel infrastructure, and tore apart the
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There is a number that stopped me mid-sentence when I first read it. In April 2026, Gwadar Port processed around 11,000 standard shipping containers in a single month. For context, the same
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I just woke up in Islamabad in the middle of the night, around 2 AM, and could not go back to sleep. I picked up my phone, started scrolling through the news,
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Islamabad does not feel ordinary these days. There is a quiet tension in the air, not the kind that comes from crisis, but the kind that signals something is actively unfolding behind
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I sat glued to my screen through the long, tense night of April 8, 2026, in Peshawar, watching history unfold in real time. The world held its breath as a U.S. deadline
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