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Strategic Brief - April 9, 2025
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Of Diversions and Lines

   Indian Hybrid-Warfare Tactics Against Pakistan, a Likely Recipe of Regional Destabilization       India has launched another blitzkrieg of propaganda against Pakistan, this time, opening a near-dormant front of LoC, to kill several birds with one stone, only that it is in for a surprise by Pakistan’s Security Forces Tariq Lodhi It was already anticipated […]

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Strategic Brief - April 4, 2025
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A VIEW FROM THE OTHER END OF THE TUNNEL ZERO-EIGHT

Tariq Lodhi The failed Jaffar Express hijack episode—engineered by cross-border Indian surrogates and HIAs, and executed by the BLA—continues to produce ripple effects, gradually unraveling a broader conspiracy. In our previous article,[1] we had already detailed two major follow-up events, Jandola and Nushki, both of which were thwarted by the prompt countermeasures of the Pakistan […]

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Strategic Brief - March 19, 2025
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In Between The Lines of Hybrid Warfare

Tariq Lodhi Contents THE AMBUSH.. 3 TERROR CONFEDERATES & INDIAN ROLE.. 16 AN ACT OF WAR AMIDST HYBRID WARFARE. 23 LEFT BEHIND AMERICAN WEAPONS IN AFGHANISTAN.. 25 SUGGESTIONS. 29 EPLIOGUE.. 35 THE AMBUSH TERROR CONFEDERATES & INDIAN ROLE AN ACT OF WAR AMIDST HYBRID WARFARE LEFT BEHIND AMERICAN WEAPONS IN AFGHANISTAN SUGGESTIONS EPLIOGUE [1] “‘Intense’ […]

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Strategic Brief - February 26, 2025
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Blazing Hybrid-Warfare

TARIQ LODHI [1] “Explosions on three Israeli buses in ‘militant attack’, police say”, Video Clip on PA Media: Video, 21-Feb-2025, https://uk.news.yahoo.com/explosions-three-israeli-buses-militant-024721088.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACoA9_mwrFfPmyrEEDTr5pWj4z4q0xkEG_bBRT_PC2tUbxgm3StQXKang6poxEkz_dbPnUlzN98uFUPcorWMhcjtM0NoUmOl7KEIuta5Y9pWIiE6gWCL1wugSbzrlCHplpniQZtKkkEQg69tmL4talkSxPc6RX-meZaxzDaCQAa- [2] “Iran believed to be behind central Israel bus bombings, initial security assessment finds”, by James Genn, Keshet Neev, Amichai Stein and Amir Bohbot, 20-Feb-2025, Jerusalem Post, < https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-843086> [3] “Security forces arrest nine […]

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Strategic Brief - February 20, 2025
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 THE DAY THE PAGERS EXPLODED How Intelligence Failure Led to Collapse of Axis of Resistance

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Strategic Brief - October 1, 2024
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Iran Missile Attacks on Israel

Iran, that was straining on the leash to respond Israel’s attack on Hezbollah in Beirut, has launched scores of ballistic missiles on Israel. The missiles pierced through the Israeli air defence system and landed at Tel Aviv. Israeli Army Radio says Iran fired more than 200 missiles on Israeli territory. The losses are being assessed. […]

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Strategic Brief - September 11, 2024
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TTP-Afghan Taliban Nexus: Irrefutable Dossier

Dr. Naveed Elahi Over the past two years Pakistan has frequently asked the Afghan Taliban government to bridle the TTP terrorists operating against Pakistan from Afghanistan. Pakistan has continually conveyed its serious concerns that hundreds of Pakistani citizens and security forces’ personnel have perished in forays by the Afghan backed TTP terrorists. Sadly, all jeremiads […]

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Strategic Brief - September 2, 2024
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SECURITY AT A GLANCE 16-31 August

Part-1 Domestic BALOCHISTAN Deadly Attacks in Balochistan on 26th August Comments:While condemning these incidents, both the federal and provincial governments of Balochistan resolved not only to punish the responsible terrorists but also to eliminate the menace threatening the state, innocent citizens, and the CPEC project and its land routes. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, along with […]

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Strategic Brief - August 11, 2024
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IMPLOSION IN BAGLADESH

Tariq Lodhi [1]  “Intelligence and Imperial Defence, Intelligence and the Defence of the Indian Empire” by Richard J. Popplewell, published by Frank Cass, London, 1996. Page 113 [2] “Sikhs of The Punjab, A Study of Confrontation and Political Mobilization” by Dr. Sarfraz Khwaja, published in 1985 by Modern Book Depot, Islamabad. [3] “Bangladesh may drop […]

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Strategic Brief - July 7, 2024
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Noises from a Boneyard

Lt. Gen ® Asad Durrani Indeed, rattling of bones is scarier than the silence of the graveyard. But that’s what I experienced on a holy Friday. It was like a Grand Jirga. Many of the star-studded names from our so-called strategic community were assembled in a five-star hotel, to jumpstart their brains and break the […]

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