Pakistan’s Emergent Pole
Pakistan’s Emergent Pole What distinguishes Pakistan’s role from other emerging poles is the narrative through which it is being perceived. International politics often shifts through moments of crisis rather than gradual adjustment, and for Pakistan, the brief but consequential war with India in May 2025 proved to be such a moment. That confrontation did more […]
BLA violence signals weakening, not rise
Recent operational record, the shift in tactics, regional politics around it point to something most coverage misses The terrorism in Balochistan shows how an armed separatist movement comes apart over time. For more than twenty years, Pakistan’s largest province has lived with low-intensity conflict: scattered violence, a steady separatist message, and long stretches of uneasy […]