Visiting Pakistani Army Chief Gen. Asim Munir meets with Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Maged Saqar and Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Ahmed Khalifa Fatehi Pakistan and Egypt on Thursday discussed bilateral defense cooperation and regional security, said an official statement. Visiting Pakistani Army Chief Gen. Asim Munir met with Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Maged Saqar and […]

Both want to “save face” after Israel’s attack on Qatar and remind fellow Muslims about the importance of more intra-Ummah military-technical cooperation, not set the stage for an Israeli-Pakistani nuclear standoff or Saudi Arabia imposing an oil embargo on India like some suspect. Saudi Arabia and Pakistan just signed a “Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement” (SMDA). According to their joint statement, […]

Islamic Nato in the making? Turkey is seeking to join a defence alliance between nuclear-armed Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, this can be seen as an effort in direction to reshape security alignments in the Middle East region and beyond, as Bloomberg reported.The pact, initially signed by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in September, reportedly states that “any aggression” against one member […]

Decades of covert ops have led to this tense moment in the Islamic Republic. If the regime is toppled, India will be strategically strained on more than one front What began as protests against soaring inflation and currency collapse across Iranian cities on December 28 quickly evolved into broader political demands, including calls for reform and, in some quarters, regime […]

Pakistan’s federal minister for parliamentary affairs has said the Taliban have not denied that militant groups operate from Afghanistan’s territory against Pakistan, but have instead claimed they lack full control over the Pakistani Taliban, or TTP. Tariq Fazal Chaudhry said talks with the Taliban in Doha and Istanbul showed that Taliban officials acknowledged the presence of militant activity, while disputing […]

Western politicians and journalists often claim that China is doing “colonialism” in Africa. This narrative has roots in US government discourse going back nearly two decades, and is exemplified by a US Congressional hearing that was held under the headline “China in Africa: The New Colonialism?” In the same year, the US business magazine Forbes claimed the purpose of China’s […]

Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan has been rocked by a spate of deadly attacks targeting security forces in recent months. The attacks have been claimed by Jaish al-Adl, a Baluch separatist militant group that is believed to be operating out of neighboring Pakistan. On April 3, over a dozen militants attacked military and police installations in two separate cities in […]

A Taliban-appointed diplomat has arrived in India and is expected to take charge of Afghanistan’s embassy in New Delhi, Indian media reported, marking the first such move since the Taliban returned to power in 2021 and signalling a further warming of their ties with India. Indian media said Noor Ahmad Noor, a senior official at the Taliban foreign ministry, arrived […]

On January 7, 2026, President Trump endorsed a bipartisan sanctions bill aimed at imposing hefty tariffs on countries like India, China, and Brazil that purchase Russian oil and uranium. On January 7, 2026, US President Donald Trump endorsed a bipartisan sanctions bill proposed by Senators Lindsey Graham (R–South Carolina) and Richard Blumenthal (D–Connecticut). The bill threatens tariffs of up to […]

Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has seen an exponential increase in drug use in recent years. During the first week of 2026, a number of narcotics-related arrests and recoveries in the Union Territory (UT) included: On January 7, Police recovered 4.5 kilograms of charas during routine patrolling in the Kulpora area of Pulwama District and arrested one peddler, Parvez Ahmed Dar. […]