A debate on relations between India with Pakistan that is familiar has emerged a year after Operation Sindoor 1. The Operation is continuing per se. Concomitantly, a debate over dialogue with Pakistan is doing the rounds in India, while some voices have gone to the opposite end of the spectrum talking of ‘dismemberment'

TRAC WATCH the Weekly Analyst Review by TRAC Terrorism of 14 May 2026 has highlighted a series of attacks by the Balochistan Republican Guards. These reports have been confirmed from other open sources.

Perspectives on the entire gamut of India Pakistan engagement from people to people, Track Two to official dialogue and crisis management.

What’s changed between Op Sindoor 1 and a projected Operation Sindoor 2 – here is a review of nine variables - strategic, diplomatic, military and terrorism which are likely to change and one constant.

India’s conflict with Pakistan in May 2025—which involved the use of combat aircraft, drones and missiles— pushed up military spending during the year. Pakistan’s military spending grew by 11 per cent to $11.9 billion in 2025.

Despite multiple mediation multilateral, bilateral at the diplomatic and political level, Afghanistan Pakistan cross border conflict continues with occasional spurge and a breakthrough appears unlikely given entrenched positions by both sides.

Here is how countries in South Asia - India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are preparing for a medium to long term crisis replicating recent disruptions such as COVID 19 as of March 22.

Ports, naval facilities, energy infrastructure, and waterfront tourist districts would be particularly vulnerable due to their visibility and limited shoreline defences.

As the United States and Israel strikes on Iran enters the fifth day with no signs of any pull back by either side, the defining trends is the decapitating attack on Iran’s Supreme Authority Ayatollah Ali Khamanei. The strike was supposed to cripple the regime but Iran retaliated spraying missiles and drones across multiple locations in West Asia [Middle East]. With a war escalating in time and space, there is a noticeable alarm in South Asia. This is understandable given the

Taliban MLRS Source Bakhtar New Agency What a fall there has been for Pakistan from the former ISI Chief presently incarcerated Lt Gen Faiz Hameed landing in Kabul sipping tea in the Serena Hotel in August 2021 to the Air Force bombing the Afghan capital. This was inevitable given a misreading of Afghan political psyche or history. The Afghans seek self respect particularly the Pashtuns and subsumes other proclivities, that of national independence perhaps all ethnicities.