16–31.8.26 Domestic BALOCHISTAN KHYBER PAKHTOONKHAWA (KP) PUNJAB SINDH DEFENCE SECURITY The federal government has authorised the deployment of three companies of the Pakistan Army in Rawalpindi for six months on the request of the Punjab Home Department to perform sensitive security duties and respond to any unforeseen situation, under Article 245 of the Constitution, according […]
Azhar Rashid Khan, PSP Introduction Pakistan’s recurring economic crises are usually diagnosed the same way: too little national savings, too little exported output, too much consumption, and too much debt. The prescribed remedy, repeated across successive IMF programmes, is a familiar cycle — borrow, stabilise, impose austerity, recover briefly, and borrow again. By March 2026, […]
CHALLENGES FROM THE EAST Tariq Lodhi Recap Preamble Hasina Wajid’s Ouster The Mystery of St. Martin’s Island Undermining Islamic Identity MJDP, an Accelerator Dirty Tricks Case of Hamraz Worshid Shaikh Red Fort Bomb Explosion Case of Asaful Mallick Misinformation About TTP SBN Case Arresting Minors India’s Good JMB, Bad JMB INDO-ISRAELI EFFORTS TO ENFORCE HEGEMONY […]
Kashif Bangash OVERALL SECURITY ENVIRONMENT. The security environment across Khyber KP remains highly fragile, fluid and unpredictable, with militant networks demonstrating an expanding geographical footprint. While southern districts such as Bannu, Lakki Marwat, Tank, D.I. Khan and the former tribal districts remain major pressure points, recent incidents indicate continued attempts by militants to probe relatively […]
1–15 August 2026 Domestic BALOCHISTAN1. Security forces killed seven alleged BLA terrorists, including a suicide bomber, during an operation in Nushki, Balochistan, destroying their hideout, ammunition and explosives (30-31.7.26).2. Eight people were killed in separate incidents across Balochistan, including a bus driver Shamadoodul Haq in Kachhi and two others in Khuzdar district (1.8.26).3. Local journalist […]
Tariq Lodhi The Pact Challenges [1] “Security experts offer a road map for NATO’s future in MENA region“, The Arab News, 10-May-2021, https://www.arabnews.com/node/1856841/middle-east; [2] “Ukraine Seals Billion-Dollar Defense Partnerships with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE“, by Dmytro Shumlianskyi, The Militarnyi, 29-Mar-2026, https://militarnyi.com/en/news/ukraine-seals-billion-dollar-defense-partnerships-with-saudi-arabia-qatar-and-the-uae/; [3] “Turkish President Erdogan warns against ‘new Sykes-Picot order’ in Middle East“, […]
Asif Iqbal “The state is not a neutral arbiter. It is the organised power of one class to suppress another – and when the class is a community, the suppression wears the face of order.” ~ Arundhati Roy, The Doctor and the Saint, 2017 On the morning of May 5, 2026, a blast rocked […]
Naveed Elahi On Friday, 7 August 2026, the leaders of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey signed a trilateral mutual-defence agreement in Islam’s holiest city Makkah, that binds three of the Muslim world’s heaviest strategic actors into a single security compact. Known as the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement (MJDA), the pact commits each state to treat […]
