Geopolitics
Saudi-backed Yemeni forces have launched an offensive to reverse the Houthi capture of Yemen’s Red Sea coast, and the Mecca defence pact has been formally activated. Pakistan already has troops, aircraft and weapons in the theatre. How far Islamabad goes next will be set by the credibility of its defence pacts, the depth of its relationship with Riyadh and a war still running on its western border.
Military and Security
A former Pakistan Air Force pilot argues that cheap drones have lowered the cost of striking from the air while leaving the cost of air power intact, and that the contest will be decided by integration, industrial depth and the speed of adaptation.
Geopolitics
Pakistan brokered the pause in the Iran war, sits on the Board of Peace alongside Israel, and holds a defence commitment to Turkey. An explainer on which of those the vote reaches.
Geopolitics
Two convictions are keeping him in prison, both under appeal. Two more stand with their sentences suspended and their appeals undecided. Two were set aside on acquittal, and a United Nations body has found his detention arbitrary.
Geopolitics
The new instrument covers training, capacity building and border management, and carries no collective defence clause.
In August 2021, days after taking Kabul, the Taliban set out a series of public commitments to Afghans and to the international community. The Kabul Assurances takes eleven of…
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