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Taliban’s Selective Counterterrorism Is Exporting Insecurity | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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Five years after returning to power, the Taliban controls Afghanistan more firmly than many expected. Yet territorial control has not translated into the elimination of militant networks operating from Afghan soil. That contradiction is becoming one of the region’s most consequential security problems. A September 2026 Atlantic Council assessment described the Taliban’s inability to deter or prevent terrorist groups from operating inside Afghanistan as the largest counterterrorism challenge faci
Pakistan Has Expanded Minority Protections. Now Comes the Harder Test | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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Pakistan marked National Minorities Day on August 11 with renewed official commitments to equality, religious freedom and protection for non-Muslim citizens. One announcement was especially significant: the government said the National Commission for Minorities Rights, created under the National Commission for Minorities Rights Act, 2025, would soon be formally activated. That announcement reflects both the progress Pakistan has made and the challenge ahead. The country has developed a broader l
Canada-India Rapprochement Confronts a Trust Deficit | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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India and Canada are moving rapidly to rebuild their economic partnership, even as unresolved concerns over organised crime, foreign interference and transnational repression continue to cast a shadow over the diplomatic reset. Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrived in Canada on 25 August for a four-day visit, as bilateral ties gained fresh momentum. During her visit to Toronto, she offered an optimistic assessment of the relationship, describing India and Canada as among the world’s
India’s Indus gamble meets its reckoning in The Hague | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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For more than six decades, the Indus Waters Treaty survived what diplomacy between India and Pakistan often could not: wars, military crises, diplomatic breakdowns and prolonged hostility. On August 31, that resilience faced one of its most consequential legal tests. In an award specifically addressing the status of the treaty following India’s April 2025 decision to hold it “in abeyance,” the Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled unanimously that the move neither terminated nor suspended the
From Ankara to Dhaka: The Mecca Pact’s Emerging South Asian Dimension | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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Bangladesh’s interest in the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement (MJDA) matters beyond whether Dhaka eventually becomes its fourth member. The more consequential question is whether a security arrangement created by Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan can move beyond its founding triangle and acquire the characteristics of a broader regional architecture. Pakistan has publicly opened that possibility. Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Andrabi described the MJDA as an “evolving security architecture” op
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