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As Pakistan remains in flux over the rising menace along its western frontier, Pak army chief General Asim Munir has recently communicated to the political leaders in Peshawar that Pakistan had “exhausted all options” to persuade Afghanistan to curb cross-border militant attacks.

As Pakistan remains clueless in battling the ongoing insecurity, 16 labourers, who were working on a uranium and plutonium mining site were abducted by TTP militants in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

India’s Afghanistan policy is witnessing a massive reset. A few days back, India backed the Taliban regime by condemning Pakistani airstrikes on civilians in Afghanistan, and now Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met with the acting Afghan Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi in Dubai.

India is ready for some pathbreaking reforms this year as Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has declared 2025 as the “Year of Reforms”.

The geopolitics of energy is in full play in Europe. For years, Russia has been the biggest gas supplier in Europe. This even continued after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the year 2022.

But now, Ukraine has stopped the transport of Russian gas to Europe through its territory after its oil giant Naftogaz refused to renew the five-year transit deal with Russia’s Gazprom.

Is the Military-Mullah regime of Bangladesh slowly transforming the country back to East Pakistan? We are saying this as after being humiliated and thrown out of Bangladesh in 1971 by the Indian Army, the Pakistani Army is set to make its entry into Bangladesh once again.

The Tal-Parachchanar road has been closed for the past 80 days in Kurma district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on the border with Afghanistan, due to continuous clashes in the area.

As Pakistan battles prolonged militancy, the Pak army’s media wing ISPR informed that its major rank officer was killed in an anti-terror operation in the Northern Waziristan region of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Pakistan chose to climb the escalation ladder as it conducted air strikes in eastern Afghanistan killing at least 46 people, mostly women and children.

With the outlawed TTP gaining a foothold in several areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Governor Faisal Karim Kundi while speaking to the press said that several districts of the province are now under the direct control of the terror outfit.