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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Security Situation & Assessment – Expanding Militancy, Institutional Gaps & Community Trust.

- Security - August 22, 2026

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 […]

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SECURITY AT A GLANCE

- Counter Terrorism - August 22, 2026

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 […]

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MAKKAH JOINT DEFENCE AGREEMENT (MJDP) / PART-I

- Defence - August 14, 2026

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“, […]

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Three Years of Silence and Fire: What Manipur Reveals About India’s Fractured Union

- Terrorism - August 9, 2026

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 […]

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Makkah Pact: Can it become Muslim NATO?

- Defence - August 8, 2026

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 […]

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Rcalibration of CT Strategy in Balochistan

- Counter Terrorism - August 8, 2026

The author is former Addl. Inspector General of Police.

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 SECURITY AT A GLANCE — 16–31 July 2026 

- Counter Terrorism - August 2, 2026

DOMESTIC AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR (AJK) AJK Police spokesperson SSP Khawar Ali Shaukat alleged in Rawalakot that the proscribed Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) was attempting to destabilise the region, and accused its members of using automatic weapons against security forces during recent clashes. He said one Rangers official had been killed, around 15 law-enforcement […]

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Policy Percolations: Pakistaan’s Wheat Supply Chain

- Uncategorized - July 28, 2026

Azhar Rashid Khan, PSP

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Implications for Pakistan of a Resurgent Iran

- Region - July 19, 2026

Khurram Khan Ultimate outcome of on-going brinkmanship between Iran and the US and its allies in the Middle East that is still evolving will become clearer in the next couple of months.  It is evident that Iran denied US and Israel their objective of dislodging the regime in Iran. Analysts believe that Iran exhibited resilience […]

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