Pakistan News & Analysis

Iran’s national security is no longer defined solely by armies, weapons, or borders—it now hinges on something far more fundamental: water.

The evident growth of terrorist networks and financing in Pakistan since 2022 suggests that the country’s removal from the FATF ‘grey list’ was premature.

The US-Pakistan rare earths deal looks like a win-win: the US diversifies its rare earth supply chain, Pakistan hedges on FDI. But the optics begin to strain when technological, regulatory, and security realities are considered.

Once the backbone of Afghanistan’s rural economy and a pillar of the global heroin trade, the opium sector is now in retreat, reshaping drug markets and security dynamics across the wider region.

Pakistan’s long-cherished notion of strategic depth in Afghanistan has devolved into strategic deadlock, with both parties increasingly viewing each other as threats rather than allies.

After years of diplomatic frost, the US–Pakistan relationship is warming again — not through rhetoric, but through energy, technology, and minerals — the currency of modern geopolitics.

Pakistan has been able to thread the needle between two superpowers despite cascading political and economic crisis at home. Here’s how Islamabad is pulling it off.

Israel’s strike on Doha may have intended to pressure Hamas, but it inadvertently triggered something larger: a reordering of Gulf security.

This week we cover a shocking plan to move Iran’s capital due to water scarcity, a new right-wing prime minister taking over in Japan, further warming in US-Pakistan relations, and new efforts by the Pentagon to shore up US missile stockpiles.

If managed with prudence and transparency, the Saudi–Pakistan defense deal can act as a stabilizer: a practical tool to safeguard trade and prevent adventurism. Poor management, however, risks turning it into another point of regional contention.

Operation Sindoor changed the game for proxy terrorist attacks within India, and Pakistan-based groups are starting to adapt their tactics.

This week we cover the deterioration of US-Venezuela relations in the wake of a US military strike on alleged drug traffickers; Fitch downgrading France sovereign debt to the lowest rating on record; a new government in Nepal after a wave of deadly protests; and signs of destabilization along the Afpak frontier.

The rapid dissemination and targeted nature of disinformation surrounding the recent four-day Kashmir war marks a dangerous new normal in information warfare, and one that will surely reverberate in future conflicts.

Examining the geopolitical stakes and wider ramifications of the latest border war between India and Pakistan.

The KP Mines and Minerals Bill reflects a strategic shift in Pakistan’s economic governance, one where Islamabad deepens involvement in provincial extraction under a banner of modernization. But the policy is not without its risks.