Global Policy & Analysis Think Tank
Yesterday, four heavily armed BLA terrorists dressed in uniforms of security service personnel broke into a five-star hotel in Gwadar with the intent of slaughtering civilian gusts including foreigners - Chinese guests in particular. After a heroic security guard was martyred in his valiant attempted to prevent the terrorists from […]
Most of the international media is referring to Saturday’s attack on the Pearl Continental hotel in Gwadar as being committed by either “gunmen” or “militants” instead of the actual terrorists that the perpetrators are after the BBC reported that they chose their target in order to kill Chinese and other […]
Just as the PKK and its sister organisation PJAK are a mutual threat to both Turkey and Iran’s western frontier, so too are terror groups active on the Iran-Pakistan border a mutual threat to both countries that are best neutralised through joint efforts. This was proved beyond a shadow of […]
Pakistan filed an official complaint against Iran just two days before Prime Minister Khan’s first visit to the Islamic Republic for its unwillingness to take action against Baloch terrorist groups like the one that claimed credit for the recent terror attack along the Makran Coastal Highway despite being informed by […]
Posted here with the author’s agreement from its initial publication on the author’s website Pakistan’s tone toward Iran when it comes to inimical elements operating on both sides of the border has continuously been a polite and cooperative one. Assurances of not allowing Pakistani territory to be used by the […]
According to initial reports; Mohsin Hassan Butt, inspector-general of the Baluchistan police, said around 15 to 20 gunmen wearing camouflage uniforms stopped up to six passenger buses travelling between Gwadar and Karachi and shot 14 passengers dead. A local named Jahangir Dashti told Associate Press; “They identified non-Baloch by checking their identity cards […]
For Israel, the failure to oust the Iran and Hezbollah-aligned Syrian government has arguably marked the last nail in the coffin for the hyper-aggressive ‘Yinon Plan’ style geostrategic strategy it employed from the early 80s. However, Israel’s new path forward toward its unachieved goals – mainly, bringing down Iran is […]
Due to its location between hostile neighbours, Pakistan has faced the threat of terrorism on its soil since its inception as a state. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, India helped to foment separatist extremism in what was then East Pakistan. After India fought against Pakistan in 1971 which resulted in […]
Cooperation against a common threat Turkey’s Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has just announced that Turkish and Iranian troops will jointly participate in anti-terror operations against the PKK. This is welcome news, not least because Iran has often been slow to act against a PKK whose Iranian branch PJAK represents a […]
A thorough misreading of present regional geopolitical circumstances, an ignorance of current shifts in alliances and quite possibly an encouragement from India produced an angry tirade of accusations against Pakistan by Iranian generals days after the bombing that murdered 27 Iranian soldiers on 13 February. The crisis created by the […]
