Regions

What 2024 Holds For Pakistan

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.

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Security Situation in Afghanistan

Syed Khalid Muhammad, Executive Director – CommandEleven, joined Syed Shabahat Ali’s FaultLines program on PTV World to discuss the security situation in Afghanistan & the challenges to the region from the Taliban, and ISKP over the next few months. He also be discussed the emerging security conflict facing the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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The Emerging Security Situation in Afghanistan

In this episode of The Insiders, Syed Khalid Muhammad talks about the emerging security situation in Afghanistan with a weakening Taliban, a rising Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP), the changing alliances of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and other groups, and the security implications for Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, China, and the Central Asian Republics (CARs).

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India’s Journey: Traversing from Crisis to Controversy

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.

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Security Challenges for the New Government

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).

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Who Cries for Pakistan

I see chaos before me and confusion all around – the future is dark and hope illusive. People have become irrelevant – their needs immaterial, the judiciary an accessory to crime, the government an accomplice to anarchy; it is why I am reminded of the famous saying when, ‘one party is shameless the other cannot afford to be spineless’.

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ISKP Escalation in Afghanistan

Syed Khalid Muhammad, CommandEleven Executive Director, joined Syed Shabahat Ali on PTV World’s Fault Lines to discuss the escalation of violence in Afghanistan by Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP) in recent months and indications of what the future of the conflict holds for both Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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TTP’s Re-Emergence in Swat

Syed Khalid Muhammad, CommandEleven Executive Director, spoke with Russia Today about the re-emergence of the Tehrek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the settled region of Swat.

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