Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is in Pakistan on a three-day trip to discuss regional and bilateral relations days after Iran and Israel carried out attacks against each other, risking the Gaza war to expand into a regional conflict. Raisi is scheduled to hold talks with top Pakistani leadership, including Prime …
Read More »The Latest Terrorist Attack In Chabahar Shows That The Iranian-Pakistani Border Still Isn’t Secure
The only way to prevent repeat occurrences is for Iran to finally seal its border with Pakistan and only allow entry via official crossings. That’s of course easier said than done though since this still hasn’t been implemented despite cross-border terrorist attacks having been carried out over the past decade. …
Read More »Editorials In Pakistani Newspapers Examine Moscow Concert Attack, Say Both Islamic State (ISIS) And Afghan Taliban Are Threats To International Peace
Following the March 22, 2024 attack on the Crocus City Hall music venue in Moscow, in which an estimated 137 people were killed and for which the Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility, major Urdu-language and English-language dailies in Pakistan published editorials arguing that both the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, …
Read More »Pakistani Imam Preaches Jew-Hate in Belgian Parliament
Three months to the day after Hamas’s bloodthirsty massacre of Jews, an Islamist preacher from Pakistan comes to the rostrum of the Brussels Regional Parliament, in the capital of the European Union, to chant verses from a sura celebrating the defeat, surrender and massacre of Jews and the enslavement of …
Read More »Pakistan officially restores all ties with Iran after short-lived spat
Pakistani and Iranian officials are working to cool tensions following a series of cross-border strikes between the two states Pakistan officially moved to restore all diplomatic ties with Iran on 19 January after a brief diplomatic row as both sides fired missiles into each other’s lands. “The apex security committee …
Read More »Can Pakistan Ever Be Free From Clutches Of Military – OpEd
In an article in the respected British journal, The Economist Pakistan’s ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed doubt about the fairness of the forthcoming General Elections scheduled to be held in January 2024. In his words, Imran Khan is now in jail on charges of exposing state secrets by …
Read More »Pakistan: Continuing Chaos In Balochistan – Analysis
On December 27, 2023, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) told the Islamabad Federal Capital’s Police not to treat Baloch protesters as “enemies”. Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb’s remarks came as he heard a petition filed on December 21, 2023, challenging the arrest of marchers who arrived in the Federal Capital, Islamabad, …
Read More »Debunking The Theory That Iran & Pakistan Secretly Coordinated Their Strikes Against One Another
Many among the Alt-Media Community have an over-simplistic view of International Relations whereby they tend to imagine that all countries that support multipolarity are on the same side, which is why they chalk up “politically inconvenient” developments like last week’s tit-for-tat strikes between SCO members Iran and Pakistan as being …
Read More »Iran’s attacks on Kurdistan region and Pakistan escalate Tehran’s threats
The overall message of Iran is that it will continue to carry out attacks where it pleases. Iran doubled down on its decision to launch attacks against Iraq and Pakistan over the last few days. Iran’s Ministry of Defense said Iran has a right to protect itself, claiming the attacks …
Read More »Iran And Pakistan: Another Front For An Already Embattled Islamabad – Analysis
The badlands that form the Iran-Pakistan border have for years been notorious for smuggling, human trafficking, narcotics trade, and of course, movement of insurgents and terrorists. It is anything but a tranquil frontier because skirmishes, shallow incursions and raids, and even occasional mortar shelling are fairly routine. But both countries …
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