Pakistan’s defense and security landscape faces a complex array of multilateral challenges, including both kinetic and non-kinetic threats, technological disruptions, and newly emerging threats.
Salman Lali, a Contributing Fellow at CommandEleven, joined Yasmeen Ali to discuss the implications and complications that will arise from deporting Afghan refugees back to Afghanistan. Salman spoke in detail about the security and humanitarian concerns that will develop as a result of the Government of Pakistan’s decision to re-start the deportment of Afghans from Pakistan, even if they have a valid Afghan Refugee card.
Expert analysis of Pakistan’s judicial crisis: Ahad Cheema case and the controversial letter from 6 Supreme Court judges. Insights on governance breakdown.
From the January 17th missile attack from Iran on Jaish-ul-Adl camps to the significant uptick in insurgent and terrorist violence in the province, 93 attacks in January alone, 2024 proves to be a bloody year for the Baluchistan province. In response to Iran’s missile attack, Pakistan launches 7 strikes inside Iran on Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA) camps, which brought a short-term diplomatic freeze in relations and an escalation on both sides that required international players to step in to cool tension before another escalation took place in the region.
Despite encountering a written death threat, purportedly from the Indian intelligence agency, Research & Analysis Wing (RAW), I ensured that the Indian government omitted the name “Pakistan” as an alleged exporter of terrorism, along with excluding mentions of the “Mumbai and Pathankot attacks” from crucial joint statements.
No nation achieves greatness without aligning its citizens towards a common vision. Unfortunately, Pakistan currently faces a stark reality: societal fragmentation stands at its peak. Among the contributing factors, one of the most crucial is the absence of clearly defined, short- and long-term national goals.
In the early ’90s, India found itself on the brink of bankruptcy, grappling with one crisis after another. The nation was reeling from a series of traumas, notably the recent assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, marking the second Prime Minister to be murdered in a short period. The economic landscape was precarious, with the longstanding Nehruvian socialist policies proving ineffective. The collapse of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union shattered the euphoria and socialist romanticism of the left that had influenced India for decades.
Syed Khalid Muhammad, CommandEleven Executive Director, discussed in detail the security challenges that Pakistan’s new government faces in both Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from insurgency and terrorism from Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA) and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
CommandEleven examines how regional powers — Japan, India, South Korea, ASEAN — would position themselves in a China-Taiwan military conflict, and the geopolitical ripple effects across the Indo-Pacific.
Analyzing the export of regional insecurity from Afghan soil. Focus on TTP, ISKP, and the failure of border management protocols.
