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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicUS Defense Intelligence Agency

Topic: US Defense Intelligence Agency

LAC tensions, China aiding Pakistan’s WMD ambitions—what US flagged in annual worldwide threat report

In an unclassified threat assessment paper, US' DIA says Islamabad sees New Delhi as an ‘existential threat’ & will push its development of nuclear weapons to offset India.

Pakistan could become fifth largest nuclear weapons state by 2025, says report

The country's current stockpile of 140-150 nuclear weapons far exceeds US's 1999 prediction of Pakistan having 60-80 warheads by 2020. 

On Camera

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

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.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

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.