Khar Qamar Seven Years On and the Unresolved Pashtun Rights Crisis
By Shinwari The seventh anniversary of the Khar Qamar incident on 26 May 2019 once again draws attention to one...
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Tribal Leaders in Bajaur and Kunar Reach a Community Peace Deal
By Dawood Jabarkhail PESHAWAR / KUNAR — After months of tension along the Durand Line, tribal elders from Pakistan’s Bajaur...
A Century‑Old Line, a New Digital Battlefield: Durand Line Tensions Resurface in the Afghan Diaspora
By A. Shafaq The Afghan diaspora has once again plunged into a heated and emotionally charged debate over the Durand...
Power Struggle and Political Rifts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
By Shinwari Khyber Pakhtunkhwa faces a deepening political confrontation between Chief Minister Muhammad Sohail Afridi and Governor Faisal Karim Kundi,...
Escalating Violence and Investor Risk in KP and Balochistan Amid Afghan Border Closure
By Nasir Khattak The latest CRSS data, reported by Arab News, underscores a fundamental contradiction of a tactical decline in...
Istanbul Talks Reveal Growing Rift Between Pakistan and the Taliban
By Kazim Jafari The two-day negotiations between Pakistan and the Taliban government in Istanbul, held on November 6–7 and mediated by...
Pakistan’s Strategic Anxiety: A Regional Reckoning
By SS Ahmad An analysis based on insights by Rahmatullah Nabil, former Afghan intelligence chief. In a recent post on X,...
Pakistan–Afghanistan Escalation: When the Creator Faces Its Own Creation
By Rahmatullah Achakzai The volatile relationship between Pakistan and Taliban-controlled Afghanistan has entered its most dangerous phase since the Taliban’s...
From Retaliation to Routine: Pakistan’s Militarism Along the Durand Line
By Rahmatullah Achakzai For decades, Pakistan has invoked the rhetoric of “national security” to justify military adventurism across its western...
Afghan Villages Bear the Human Cost of Pakistan’s Border Policy
By Rahmatullah Achakzai KHOST/NANGARHAR — Along the jagged ridges that trace Afghanistan’s eastern frontier, the stakes of border control are not abstract....
