Bannu & The Operation

Things were difficult for the Pakistan Army to begin with, to say the least, but with the wave that is sweeping across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa now, things have gotten tremendously more difficult. To be honest, for the people who were planning to cause unrest in Pakistan, they couldn’t have imagined things getting this bad, this quickly.
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Beyond Borders Supremacy: The New AI Arms Race

With implications spanning military, economic, and strategic domains, the race for AI dominance has captured the attention of global stakeholders and raised profound questions about the future of warfare, governance, human society and geopolitics. The battle for dominance in shaping crucial technologies has been a hallmark of the tech industry since its inception. Today, the geopolitical struggle for control over emerging AI, includes both the software and hardware, indispensable for advancing these capabilities.
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Rawalpindi, Aabpara & Bani Gala – The Washington Factor

The reasons of split between Rawalpindi and Banigala, leading to Imran Khan’s ouster from power remain a mystery to many while it is an established fact that Rawalpindi and Aabpara, jointly, paved Imran Khan’s way to the power in the first place. Before explaining the genesis of the split, it is imperative to note that Rawalpindi and Aabpara are two different entities with usual professional rivalry that, occasionally, reaches to conformation.
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Understanding the Taliban

The Kandahari Faction of the Taliban has often been overshadowed by other factions and militant groups, but its relevance in shaping the Afghan insurgency and regional geopolitics cannot be understated. While most focus on the Taliban as a monolithic entity, or pay particular attention to the Haqqani Network due to its operational audacity, the Kandahari Faction represents a unique amalgam of ideological resilience, military capability, and strategic diplomacy that has long-lasting implications for peace and security in Afghanistan and beyond.
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