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 Security Council’s Analytical Support and ...
By Dure Akram, from Lahore / Pakistan The suicide blast that ripped through Islamabad’s district courts on a November morning, killing ordinary citizens on their way to routine hearings, was a brutal reminder that Pakistan’s long war with militancy is again bleeding into its major cities. Only hours earlier, a far deadlier plot in Wana, where militants linked to the ...