Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations: From Shared Brotherhood to Conflict and Betrayal – Part Five

By Asif Haroon Raja Water Terrorism by India as the 2nd Exploitative Front India has been indulging in water terrorism against Pakistan for a long time. Its strategy has been to control the flow of the rivers governed by the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) of 1960 by constructing a large number of dams and hydroelectric projects in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). The Treaty allocates the thre ...

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Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations: From Shared Brotherhood to Conflict and Betrayal – Part Three & Four

By Asif Haroon Rajandia's Military Adventure Against the backdrop of its expanding strategic partnerships with the United States and other Western powers, India's growing defence capabilities, and its increasing international stature as a counterweight to China in the Indo-Pacific, the Modi government appeared to conclude that the regional strategic environment was favourable for adopting a more assertive m ...

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Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations: From Shared Brotherhood to Conflict and Betrayal Part – Two

By Asif Haroon Raja 9/11 and the Post-9/11 Era The events of 11 September 2001in the USA fundamentally transformed Pakistan's security environment. Although Pakistan joined the US-led coalition against terrorism and served as the principal frontline state throughout the two-decade-long War on Terror, it simultaneously found itself under sustained pressure from multiple directions. While facilitating coaliti ...

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Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations: From Shared Brotherhood to Conflict and Betrayal Part one

By Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan's Geopolitical and Security Environment at the Time of Its Birth Pakistan came into existence on 14 August 1947 under extraordinarily difficult circumstances. The controversial Radcliffe Award, widely regarded in Pakistan as unjust and influenced by the combined interests of the British administration and the Hindu-dominated Congress leadership, partitioned the Muslim-majority p ...

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The Persistent Threat of Terrorism from Afghan Soil

By Asif Haroon Raja  On 27 June 2026, at 8:10 p.m., a suicide attack was carried out on the Karachi Transport Company of the Sindh Rangers. Immediately after the explosion, five armed terrorists stormed the premises. According to reports, all five terrorists were killed, while the identities of six other terrorists have not yet been established. The attack resulted in the martyrdom of two security personnel ...

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Yasin Malik’s New Prosecution:Justice Delayed or Judicial Harassment?

By The filing of a 737-page chargesheet by Kashmir's State Investigation Agency (SIA) before a Special Court in Srinagar against Yasin Malik and four others in connection with the 1990 abduction and murder of nurse Sarla Bhat raises profound legal and political questions. Coming more than three decades after the incident, the prosecution has inevitably reignited debate over justice, accountability and the u ...

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The Afghan Taliban and Pakistan: From Strategic Allies to Strategic Rivals

By Asif Haroon Raja Pakistan's Role During Afghan Jihad in the 1980s During the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan from December 1979 till February 1989, an estimated 1.8 million Afghans, including nearly 300,000 children, lost their lives. In stark contrast, Pakistan opened its doors to more than five million Afghan refugees over several decades. It not only provided them with shelter and securi ...

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The OIC Reiterates Its Support to the Cause of Kashmir

By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai Today’s meeting in New York between Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Chairman of the World Forum for Peace & Justice, Sardar Taj Khan, Senior Vice Chairman of the Kashmir Mission USA, and Ambassador Hameed Ajibaiye Opeloyeru, the Permanent Observer of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to the United Nations, serves as an important reminder that the question of Kashmir remains unres ...

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