By Dure Akram, from Lahore / Pakistan The latest UN sanctions-monitoring report puts a hard edge on a question the region has tried to keep diplomatic: whether Taliban-ruled Afghanistan is merely unstable, or functionally permissive for the kind of cross-border militancy that turns trade maps into casualty lists. In its most recent assessment, the UN … Continue reading Corridors Under Fire: Pakistan’s Central Asia Gamble in the Shadow of Afghan Militancy