Experts caution that despite acquiring new weapons and forging defense alliances, India’s troops remain ill-prepared for a potential confrontation in the face of escalating tensions, despite the country’s rapid military upgrade since its 2019 conflict with Pakistan, The News reported. According to an article by reporters Mujib Mashal and Suhasini Raj for The New York Times, Indian officials faced an uncomfortable truth the last time tensions between India and Pakistan escalated into a standoff. It revealed that India’s massive military was bloated, outdated, and ill-equipped to handle potential threats at its borders. India’s modernization initiatives gained new urgency in…
Author: Raja Zahid Khanzada
Security forces successfully thwarted an attempt to infiltrate the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and killed at least 54 terrorists in the Hassan Khel area of North Waziristan district, the military’s media wing reported on Sunday. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), security forces detected the movement of a group of militants attempting to infiltrate through the Pak-Afghanistan border in the general area of Hassan Khel, North Waziristan district, during the night between April 25, 26, and 27. “Own troops effectively engaged and thwarted their attempt to infiltrate. As a result of precise and skillful engagement, all 54 khawarij have been sent…
Amidst the ongoing tensions between Islamabad and New Delhi following the Pahalgam attack, Pakistan and China on Sunday reiterated their firm resolve to uphold regional peace and stability. This development occurred as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar held a telephone conversation with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, briefing him on the current regional situation. The two top diplomats also emphasized the importance of promoting mutual respect and understanding, and expressed their opposition to unilateralism and hegemonic policies. Besides China, Pakistan has reached out to friendly countries including Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Egypt to…
Pakistan has strongly criticized India for exploiting the Pahalgam attack, which tragically claimed the lives of 26 tourists, to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty for domestic political gains, warning that New Delhi is attempting to “unleash a hydro war” without any evidence or investigation. New Delhi has linked Islamabad to the attack without providing any substantial evidence and has taken a series of punitive measures to downgrade bilateral ties, including suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, revoking visas of Pakistani citizens, and closing the Wagah-Attari border crossing. Pakistan has responded in kind to India’s actions and has warned of…
An unconventional Pakistani-origin candidate, Rana Aslam, has announced that he is taking a one-day leave from his government job to contest the elections in Canada. Aslam stated that if he wins, he will resign from his job. If he does not win, he will return to work the very next day. Running from the Hamilton constituency under the banner of the Liberal Party of Canada, Aslam has received strong support from party leader Mark Carney, the Canadian Prime Minister, who has visited Hamilton twice to campaign for him. Interestingly, Aslam also serves as a government-employed engineer in Hamilton. As…
The sit-in at Khairpur Baberlo bypass against the controversial canal project entered its 11th day on Monday, resulting in the continued suspension of traffic between Sindh and Punjab. Simultaneously, the protest at Mangrio Pump near Daharki on the National Highway has persisted into its 9th consecutive day. Sit-ins are also being staged at Kamo Shaheed in Obaro and Gola Mor in Kandhkot, causing severe disruption to traffic flow between Sindh and Balochistan, with long queues of vehicles reported on key routes. The Cholistan Canals issue has become a central point of contention between the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)-led Sindh government…
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has convened a meeting of the Council of Common Interests (CCI) today, as requested by the Sindh government, according to Sindh Senior Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon. The meeting, originally scheduled for May 2, has been moved forward following the Sindh government’s urgent request. In a statement, Memon confirmed that the meeting, to be chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz, is set to take place this evening in Islamabad. He further disclosed that the critical issue of canal projects will be discussed, with a decision expected to be reached today. Speaking on Geo News’ program “Geo…
Amidst escalating tensions with Pakistan following a deadly gun attack in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), India is actively pursuing global backing — not to de-escalate the situation, but to reinforce its justification for possible military intervention. Despite limited concrete evidence directly linking Pakistan to the attack, the prospect of a volatile confrontation between the two nuclear-armed neighbors is becoming increasingly concerning, the New York Times reported. The NYT report details that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urgently contacted over a dozen world leaders in a flurry of diplomatic calls in the aftermath of last week’s…
Pakistani security forces neutralized 71 terrorists near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in a series of successful operations conducted from April 25 to 27, safeguarding national security and thwarting potential threats, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) stated on Monday. The military’s media wing reported that on the night of April 27-28, security forces carried out a deliberate sanitization operation in the areas surrounding Hassan Khel, North Waziristan District (NWD), along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. This significant terrorist death toll follows successful engagements by the security forces in NWD between April 25 and 27, during which 54 “khwarij” were eliminated. In these earlier…
In the Wana area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) South Waziristan district, a powerful explosion near the office of a peace committee resulted in the deaths of at least seven individuals and left several others wounded. According to Deputy Commissioner Nasir Khan, the blast occurred in close proximity to the peace committee’s office, leading to the immediate deaths of seven people and injuries to sixteen others. He further stated that the injured individuals were being promptly transferred to the District Headquarters Hospital in Wana. Meanwhile, police officials reported that the explosion caused the complete destruction of the peace committee’s…
