BLF’s KAAD Female Unit: Balochistan’s New Combat Force
Key Takeaways The Balochistan Liberation Front has fielded the KAAD female unit — its first all-women combat formation — and claims its fighters killed nine…
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Powerus’s Pakistan Bet: The Same Drone Firm Already Sells to India
On 30 June 2026, Paras Defence and Space Technologies told India’s stock exchanges that a little-known American drone company had handed it the exclusive right…
Rajnath Singh’s Strategic Autonomy Pledge Echoes Modi at SCO
Defence · Geopolitics The Eastern Strategist · 27 September 2026 · By Abhishek Kumar Defence ministers rarely need to clarify that their country isn’t planning…
Pakistan’s Three-Front Crisis: Kabul, Balochistan, IMF
Pakistan’s three-front crisis crested in a single week of September 2026: air strikes into Afghanistan, an intensifying two-insurgency war in Balochistan, and an IMF review…
Mecca Pact Fails First Test: Saudi Sirens, Silent Allies
Sirens over Mecca, a fully closed Bab al-Mandeb, and a defence pact that answered with statements instead of support — inside Saudi Arabia’s widening September…
Houthi Red Sea Escalation: Oil Prices, the Mecca Pact, and India’s Vulnerability
The conventional premise of maritime deterrence held that overwhelming blue-water naval power could reliably cordon regional conflicts away from global shipping lanes. That calculation unravelled…
Three Nations Signed a Defence Pact in Mecca. Only One Brought Nuclear Weapons to the Table.
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement on 7 August 2026. Behind the NATO-style rhetoric lies an old, unresolved question —…
Why Turkey Supports Pakistan: Strategy Over Religion, and What It Means for India
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Pakistan’s Westward Pivot: Implications for India’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
Pakistan’s growing focus on Central and Southwest Asia could create new strategic space for India. This analysis examines how credible nuclear deterrence, maritime modernization, and…
India J-35 Counter Strategy: Neutralizing Pakistan’s Stealth Threat
Executive Briefing The Strategic Shift: The accelerated timeline of the Pakistan stealth fighter threat alters the South Asian air-power balance by compressing detection windows, forcing…
Iran Hormuz Toll Dispute Undercuts Progress in U.S.-Iran Talks
The Iran Hormuz toll dispute is emerging as one of the biggest obstacles in ongoing U.S.-Iran negotiations, widening disagreements that already include uranium enrichment, sanctions…
Trump Welcomed Pakistan’s Army Chief. Then Washington Learned About the Iran Allegations.
Pakistan Iran Aircraft Allegations Raise New Questions for Trump and Washington Just weeks after Pakistan positioned itself as a key intermediary between Washington and Tehran…
From Teesta to the Border: How India’s Eastern Strategy Is Changing
Teesta Strategic Geopolitics The changes unfolding along India’s eastern frontier are no longer limited to state politics or border administration. In West Bengal, growing coordination…
How Pakistan Helped Iran’s Nuclear Rise — and Why It Is Now Mediating U.S.-Iran Talks
Key fact: Pakistan is tied to two documented phases of Iran’s nuclear story. First, the A.Q. Khan network helped Iran acquire uranium-enrichment technology. Now, Pakistan…