Defining Display of National Leadership
SECURITY AT A GLANCE (16–31.3.26)
THE HYDRA HEADED FITNA-AL HIND AND BALOCHISTAN
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“Stone Age” — Strategic Messaging Behind President Donald Trump’s
Kashif Bangash
While the ceasefire is in place, retrospectively looking at the “stone age” warning issued by President Donald Trump in his address to the nation, it carried a far deeper strategic message than a simple threat directed at Iran. While on the surface it appeared as a warning of overwhelming military force, in reality it reflected frustration, signaling, and pressure directed.
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Defining Display of National Leadership
“Stone Age” — Strategic Messaging Behind President
SECURITY AT A GLANCE (16–31.3.26)
THE HYDRA HEADED FITNA-AL HIND AND BALOCHISTAN
CounterTerrorism
Regional Security Implications & Strategic Response Options
Dr. Naveed Elahi
Kabul under the Taliban group has entrenched itself as a sanctuary and ideological hub for transnational terrorist organisations — most critically, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), al-Qaeda, and the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP/Daesh). There are some other smaller groups like ETIM, IMU etc.
The recent provocative statements by Afghanistan’s Acting Defence Minister Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, son of former Taliban leader Mullah Omer— openly threatening Islamabad with attacks and refusing to designate the TTP as a terrorist organisation — lay bare a strategic posture that conflates governance with militant patronage.
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Defining Display of National Leadership
“Stone Age” — Strategic Messaging Behind President
SECURITY AT A GLANCE (16–31.3.26)
