Pakistan Struggles to Protect Chinese Interests Amidst Consistent Attacks

Over the night of October 6, a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) attack took place outside Karachi airport, targeting a Chinese convoy. Two Chinese citizens were killed in the attack on a convoy carrying Chine...

TKD EXCLUSIVE: Pakistani Officials Believe Pakistani Taliban Have Developed 'Nascent' Drone Technology

There have been at least 6 suspected attacks in the last two months in North Waziristan tribal district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which officials believe were “Quadcopter Borne IEDs” targeting security facilities and transport.“Alt...

Dozens Killed, Roads Paralyzed as Balochistan Faces Wave of Attacks

A coordinated wave of attacks swept across Balochistan on August 25, resulting in the loss of at least 53 lives, including civilians and 14 security personnel. In the ensuing counteroperations, security forces killed 21 milit...

Ismail Haniyeh’s Assassination: Iranian Leadership Assessing Scenarios of Retaliation Against Israel

The inauguration of Iran’s new President, Masoud Pezeshkian, on July 30 was the occasion for the arrival of many foreign dignitaries in the Iranian capital of Tehran. After a busy day, with the delegations moving around the c...

Economic Cost of Conflict: Trade Suffers Amid Pak-Afghan Border Tension

Cross-border tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan have escalated into a recurring pattern of confrontations between the two countries in recent years. The latest incident on August 12, 2024, involved an intense bord...

Iran Recruiting from Pakistan and Elsewhere, Maintain Pakistani Officials

The United States Justice Department announced on Tuesday that it had charged Asif Raza Merchant, a 46-year-old Pakistani national, for attempting to hire a hitman and assassinate a politician or government official on US soi...

Pakistan-Iran Trade; Challenges and Opportunities

On July 8 and 9, 2024, a meeting of the 11th Joint Border Trade Committee (JBTC) – a body of officials and the business community from Pakistan and Iran – was held in Zahedan, the capital city of the Iranian Sistan and Baluch...

Fluid Identities: Abdul Rahim – From a Soldier to a Taliban Commander

The fringes of Peshawar City have historically sheltered the most lethal Taliban factions. Hassankhel, situated on the outskirts of Peshawar and previously a part of the semi-autonomous Frontier Region (FR) of ex-FATA, has lo...

Countries Move to Crack Down on Islamic State Khorasan Globally

Within the first weeks of June, several countries conducted a number of operations against Islamic State’s networks with links to the organization’s branch in the Khorasan region – Islamic State Khorasan (ISKP) –, namely Afgh...