An anti-Taliban group briefly seized control of Yaftal-e-Paeen district in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province early Friday before withdrawing several hours later, local sources told Amu TV. Two local sources said dozens of anti-Taliban fighters attacked the district headquarters at around 2 a.m., disarmed Taliban forces and temporarily took control of the district administration. According to the sources, the fighters identified […]

L’Union européenne persiste à qualifier la Chine de partenaire, de concurrent et de rival systémique—souvent au sein des mêmes cadres politiques. Cette ambiguïté conceptuelle chronique a engendré une approche fragmentée et incohérente, incapable de servir réellement les intérêts économiques fondamentaux de l’Europe ni de répondre de manière adéquate à la nouvelle donne géopolitique. Dérive stratégique et crise de la gouvernance […]

Who has the constitutional authority to decide when childhood ends in Pakistan? That question lies at the heart of one of the country’s most significant constitutional challenges, now before the Federal Shariat Court. Yet from its inception, the legislation contained an important limitation. Although it criminalised the conduct of those responsible for child marriages, it did not expressly declare such […]

Four Taliban cabinet ministers have visited India over the past nine months, highlighting growing engagement between New Delhi and the Taliban as their relations with neighboring Pakistan remain strained. The latest visit came last week, when Ataullah Omari, the Taliban’s acting minister of agriculture, traveled to New Delhi at the head of a delegation. His trip follows earlier visits by […]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry said it will continue expanding relations with the Taliban regardless of whether Tehran formally recognizes their rule, describing recognition as a separate political and legal process. The comments come as Iran maintains close diplomatic and economic ties with the Taliban while stopping short of officially recognizing their rule. Speaking at a news conference, Esmail Baghaei, spokesman for […]

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Quadcopter Proliferation On July 11, 2026, a school teacher, Shaukat Armani, was killed while two of his nephews sustained injuries following a suspected Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) quadcopter drone strike on his residence in the Ladha area of South Waziristan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). On July 7, 2026, one civilian was killed and four were injured after terrorists […]

Forecasts that oil could reach $200 a barrel spread rapidly at the start of the US-Iran war and experts pondered whether the Strait of Hormuz could remain closed for a prolonged period. But these dire predictions never materialised. The highest level the global benchmark price, Brent crude futures, reached was $126. Even that spike was brief. Before the recent escalation […]

It’s been 10 years since the arbitral tribunal constituted under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) issued the so-called South China Sea “arbitral award” on July 12, 2016, but some scholars — particularly those from claimant states — continue to celebrate it as a decisive clarification that reshaped the maritime claims and long-standing disputes in […]

Documents on the secret negotiations between Russia and China, which were at the disposal of The Insider (and verified by the publication), confirm that military cooperation between the countries has gone deeper than it was publicly known. Among other things, China has involved Russia in the program to combat the Starlink satellite system Elon Musk, which includes both legal and […]

Many jihadists, building on the Palestinian model, increasingly see Kashmir as prime land to conquer: the next great cause for global jihad. Pakistan has actively enabled and amplified this jihadist narrative by positioning itself as the foremost protector of Muslims, effectively asserting ownership over Kashmir. In June 2026, Pakistani paramilitary forces opened fire on protesters in… Kashmir. The protesters were […]