Former Thai diplomat. UN reporting officer on peace, conflict and security, focusing on LAC/APAC regions. Views=my own. Claremont McKenna '13 / Georgetown '15
According to the @BBC, Fazal Qadir Mandokhail, a member of the Balochistan Assembly, has claimed that the #Pakistan Army has brought 1000s of former Afghan soldiers to #Balochistan and deployed them along the Durand Line near #Afghanistan. Is this credible? If it is true what is Pakistan's game plan? How will #Afghanistan respond?
https://t.co/YN6lLpdd2k
During a session of the Balochistan Assembly, Fazal Qadir Mandokhail, a member of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F), claimed that thousands of former Afghan soldiers had been brought to areas of Pakistan near the Durand Line.
During the discussion, Fazal Qadir Mandokhail said that the security situation in the province was deteriorating day by day. He alleged that thousands of soldiers from the former Afghan republican government had been transferred to his area.
He asked the government why these individuals had been settled there.
منابع: مقر ولسوالی سنگین هلمند هدف حمله راکتی قرار گرفته است.
منابع محلی در ولایت هلمند میگویند که شام سهشنبه، ۱۰ سنبله ۱۴۰۵، مقر ولسوالی سنگین هدف چند فیر راکت قرار گرفته است.
به گفته منابع، این حمله حوالی ساعت ۹ شب رخ داده است.
تا کنون جزئیات دقیقی رویداد مشخص نشد است.
A major conference in Islamabad brought together policy experts, diplomats, Afghanistan affairs specialists, researchers and international observers to review the state of Afghanistan five years after the Taliban returned to power, with participants expressing concerns over governance, human rights, economic challenges and regional security.
The conference was organized jointly by the Institute of Regional Studies (IRS) and South Asia Times and focused on assessing the achievements, challenges and future trajectory of Afghanistan under Taliban rule.
https://t.co/r5QpxpBhuS
Op-Ed: "The state must learn its lesson from the eruption of public discontent and not repeat its mistakes in Azad Kashmir. Local autonomy must be respected so that the Kashmiris can decide their own future, without being subjected to arrangements that have been shaped from the outside."
https://t.co/gw4VN5SyBx
Colombia urgently needs a more effective military strategy. But the new president should take care not to repeat the errors of the past, when military deployments spurred cycles of bloodshed and undermined public trust in state forces.
https://t.co/7IHSSCfYdJ
Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said the tripartite agreement between Ankara, Islamabad and Riyadh will be known as “Makkah Defence Alliance”, with its first secretary general to be from Pakistan.
https://t.co/k3vJRGIw7T
Thousands of miles from Afghanistan, prescriptions are being written by Afghans for the country’s future – a future without Taliban rule.
https://t.co/Ma1u4vvuTy
Written by Balochistan-based researcher Syeda Anisa Abuzar , this opinion piece examines how geography continues to shape access to services and development outcomes across the province.
https://t.co/y5v8KzQMrO
Further evidence of joint facilitation between the banned BLA and TTP has emerged after Sajjad, son of Ahmad Ali, revealed in a press conference in Panjgur that key TTP commander Matlab, son of Abdul Qadir, who was killed in a recent operation used to store weapons at his premises.
#BannedBLA #TTP #Panjgur #Balochistan #WeaponsStorage #TerrorNetwork
#Iran’s use of criminal proxies abroad isn’t new – but the scale and reach of the threat are evolving.
Against the backdrop of ongoing conflict, The @NewYorker examines Iran’s growing reliance on foreign criminal networks to target dissidents and journalists overseas.