In a weekly analysis of terorist threats across the World TRAC has provided an Insight into the Arrest of Islamic State Khurasan (ISK) Spokesman Sultan Aziz Azzam by Pakistan authorities as outlined below   On 16 May 2025, Pakistani authorities conducted a high-profile counterterrorism operation that resulted in the arrest of Sultan Aziz Azzam, the official spokesperson of Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISK). The operation was led by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence

Representative Image Wix AI 22 November The Trump Peace Plan for Ending Ukraine War Risks The basic flaw of the Plan as it is a sweeping attempt to equate the aggressor and the victim while emasculating not just Ukraine but also European Union and NATO – which has held peace on the Continent so far through the powerful shield of deterrence. Yet NATO or the EU members have not been consulted with the US possibly acting as an arbitrator on their behalf without their knowing. I

Representative Image of Afghanistan's Building of National Defence Capability   Demonstrating the irony of Pakistan’s belief of establishing a regime in Kabul that could be controlled from Islamabad, Taliban asserted autonomy highlighting territorial sovereignty which shocked the Establishment of the Eastern Neighbour which is now searching for answers from a two front dilemma – India and Afghanistan. Here is a detailed forecast for November and beyond-   International Relati

Map Courtesy National Geographic Society After the most intense clashes over the past four years, Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to a cease fire, central to the same is the Durand Line, unrecognized by the Taliban which splits the Pashtun homeland. While the clashes are an outcome of  Pakistan’s allegations of Taliban support to the TTP, central to the same is the Durand dilemma a large question. A current perspective on likely status of the Cease Fire and Stability thr

Afghan Taliban on the Durand Line Source Bakhtar News Agency After recent Taliban Pakistan clashes on the Durand Line and beyond here is a simulation of the drivers and the possible way ahead. A week is a long time in the regional politics of the Western half of South Asia – Afghanistan Pakistan and India. Just as Afghanistan Taliban’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi was in Delhi on the first visit by a Taliban minister to India, escalation on the Pakistan and Afghanistan

Representative Image Wix AI of Kunar EQ Taliban’s policy of isolation from the World in all vectors from universal human rights to...

Representative Image by Wix AI Afghanistan under the Taliban's fourth year of rule continues to face complex ordeals in the humanitarian,...

TRAC Terrorism Weekly Report indicates that Afghanistan has entered the cyber warfare era with the first major attack by the Afghan...

As India appears to be caught in the conflict dyad with Pakistan’s heinous terrorist strategy, China is making inroads in the...

After four and a half decades of violent turmoil, people of Afghanistan in the past three and a half years have experienced greater...