Aimal Wali Khan, the leader of the Awami National Party, has long spoken out against the cross-border tensions between the Taliban and Islamabad, and Pakistan's support for the regime in Kabul.
With China now being deflected to watching a war unfold with bigger stakes, this little neighbourhood skirmish may teach Pakistan a much-needed lesson in geostrategic warfare.
Some Pakistanis expressed their anger against the Pakistani military, with one user saying that ‘the generals have failed at everything they have done since 2022 and they will continue to fail’.
Women comprise less than a fifth of specialised physicians in the country, new decree risks shutting Afghan women out of professions & access to healthcare.
New ‘criminal code’ in Afghanistan also legalises ‘Caste-like slavery’, prescribes flog-at-sight for ‘sinners’ & proposes 3 months’ jail for wife visiting kin without ‘permission’.
Public flogging & executions have become increasingly common under the Taliban regime. In 2025 alone, 1,000 people, including over 150 women, were punished likewise, Afghanistan's top court has stated.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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