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By Dr Muhammad Shahid Recent developments across South Asia have laid bare the volatile convergence of geopolitics, energy competition, and cross-border security dynamics. From a high-stakes energy deal inked in…
By Dr Muhammad Shahid KOHAT — In the wreckage of Friday’s massacre at the Old Police Lines mosque, investigators say they have found the first hard thread connecting Pakistan’s latest…
By Dr Muhammad Shahid The German philosopher Jürgen Habermas argued that a functioning “public sphere” depends on spaces — literal and figurative — where citizens can gather, exchange information and…
KABUL — The de facto administration’s move to revoke the operating license and seize control of Khatam al-Nabieen University—alongside the military eviction of its affiliated religious seminary in Kabul—has crystallized…
Reports have confirmed that roughly half of the estimated one million weapons the Taliban inherited in 2021 are now lost, sold, or smuggled — with a documented trail reaching militant…
The ongoing circumstances illustrate the core danger of Afghanistan’s ungoverned frontier space: it is not just militant groups with their own agendas that can exploit it, but, external state rivals…
Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP)—the Afghanistan-based affiliate of the broader extremist movement—has undergone a significant transformation. While conventional metrics show the group has reduced its physical territory and visible infrastructure…
How Afghan girls barred from school by the Taliban are being defrauded by fake online programs — and blamed by officials for trying to study at all By Dr Muhammad…
By Dr Muhammad Shahid Every September, as the anniversary of 9/11 approaches, intelligence analysts brace for a predictable ritual: As-Sahab, al-Qaeda’s media production arm, releases something timed to remind the…
By Dr Muhammad Shahid Every September, the world pauses to remember the smoke over Manhattan, the grief that gripped American cities, the moment the twenty-first century seemed to begin in…