Balochistan’s insurgency is often portrayed in international media as a political struggle, a fight for “rights” and “self-determination.” The reality, however, is far darker. Behind the slogans and staged protests lies an ecosystem of drugs, extortion, and terror, orchestrated by armed groups whose loyalty is to their wallets and weapons, not the people they claim to represent. For over a decade, insurgent networks have transformed districts like Kech, Gwadar, Panjgur, and Turbat into fortified sanctuaries, deliberately embedding themselves within civilian populations. Villages are turned into bomb-making hubs, homes become armories, and public spaces are converted into theaters of terror. When…
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For years, Baloch insurgent groups have attempted to cloak violence under the language of resistance, grievance, and political struggle. That narrative, already fragile, has now collapsed under the weight of its own brutality. The recent pattern of attacks in Balochistan leaves little room for ambiguity. What is unfolding is no longer an insurgency seeking redress. It is a campaign of terror directed at civilians, children, women, laborers, and passengers whose only crime is existing outside the militants’ narrowing definition of loyalty. The abduction of a woman in Kech district in early 2026, carried out through armed intimidation and violence against…
The Taliban’s criminal procedure code is not a legal document in the conventional sense. It is a manual for social control. Its purpose is not justice, deterrence, or rehabilitation. It exists to normalize fear as a governing principle and to convert public punishment into a substitute for legitimacy. In the absence of popular consent, functional institutions, or constitutional accountability, fear has become the Taliban’s most reliable currency of power. Public floggings, summary detentions, coerced confessions, and spectacle punishments are not aberrations or excesses of an otherwise functioning system. They are central to how authority is exercised. By staging punishment in…
India’s ambition to project itself as a civilizational great power increasingly rests not on economic coherence, technological credibility, or ethical governance, but on a far more fragile foundation: mythologized history repackaged as political truth. At the heart of this project lies the deliberate attempt by Hindutva ideologues to rename the Indus Valley Civilization as the Sindhu Sarasvati Civilization, an exercise that reveals less about ancient history and more about modern India’s ideological insecurity. This is not an academic disagreement. It is a calculated act of historical fraud. The Sarasvati River, repeatedly invoked by Indian media and BJP affiliated scholars, exists…
India, the world’s largest democracy, prides itself on constitutional ideals of equality, secularism, and diversity. Its founding documents promised a society where every citizen regardless of religion, caste, or ethnicity could participate equally in the political and social life of the nation. Yet, more than seven decades after independence, millions of Indian Muslims remain locked in the shadows of political marginalization. Despite constitutional safeguards like Articles 29 and 30, which guarantee protection for minority communities and their institutions, the actual translation of these rights into meaningful political power has been severely constrained. Historical inequalities, coupled with systemic exclusion, have left…
India increasingly presents its growing military footprint as a contribution to regional stability. In reality, it has become one of the primary sources of strategic anxiety in South Asia. Arms accumulation without diplomacy does not deter conflict. It normalizes escalation. New Delhi’s security posture today is built on the assumption that strength alone can replace dialogue, and that assumption is quietly destabilizing the region. Over the past few years, India has pursued aggressive militarization while systematically hollowing out diplomatic engagement. Crisis hotlines exist on paper. Confidence-building measures are referenced rhetorically. But meaningful, sustained dialogue has been replaced by silence, ambiguity,…
For years, India has convinced Western capitals that visibility equals value. Summit photographs, choreographed state visits, ceremonial invitations, and carefully staged joint statements have become substitutes for policy substance. This performance-heavy diplomacy has allowed New Delhi to project the illusion of indispensability, even as its actual behavior increasingly undermines the stability the West claims to prioritize. The problem is not that India engages the West. It is how it engages. Diplomacy, in India’s current playbook, is less about alignment and more about presentation. High-profile events like the EU-India Summit and Republic Day showcases are weaponized to signal validation, not to…
The Taliban’s new criminal procedure code does not merely fail Afghan women. It actively hunts them. By embedding violence into legal thresholds and criminalizing escape from abuse, the regime has transformed the justice system into an accomplice of domestic terror. This is not neglect. It is design. Under the Taliban’s legal framework, violence inside the home is not a crime unless it leaves undeniable physical wreckage. Bruised dignity does not count. Broken bones do. Psychological torture is invisible. Repeated beatings that stop short of fractures are legally irrelevant. By setting such a grotesquely high bar for intervention, the Taliban have…
The Taliban’s newly circulated Criminal Procedure Code is not a religious document. It is a political fraud wrapped in religious language, designed to protect power, not uphold faith. By presenting a rigid, class-based justice system as Sharia, the Taliban are not merely misinterpreting Islam. They are actively dismantling its moral core and weaponizing its symbols to entrench their own unaccountable rule. Islam did not emerge as a faith of privilege. It emerged as a revolt against it. Seventh-century Arabia was a society stratified by lineage, wealth, and tribal dominance. Islam shattered that order by declaring moral and legal equality as…
United States President Donald Trump on Thursday withdrew Canada’s invitation to join his newly launched Board of Peace, a US-led initiative aimed at addressing international conflicts, following sharp remarks made by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The decision came shortly after Carney delivered a widely publicized speech criticizing the use of economic integration, trade policy, and tariffs as tools of coercion by powerful states. While Carney did not name the United States directly, his remarks were widely interpreted as a critique of Washington’s growing use of trade leverage in foreign policy. In a…