The suicide bombing in North Waziristan, claimed by the Hafiz Gul Bahadur faction of TTP, is the latest manifestation of a fatal logic that has long guided Pakistan’s suicidal statecraft and self-delusion.
Publicly, Indians pretend to be conservative, modest, and get deeply offended by any reference to sex. Privately, the same people consume sexual content, through cinema, music or pornography.
The latest World Economic Forum outlook for the year shows a modest improvement in confidence, but mounting concerns over debt, AI-driven volatility and a fractured trade order.
Pakistan lacks capacity to deliver aircraft at pace suggested by its claimed contracts as it depends on China for avionics, electronic warfare, weapons, and on Russia for engines.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
May they continue to suffer. So long as the violence doesn’t reach us, I’m good with a certain neighbour vanishing into oblivion.