Articles By Aparna Rawal
US Sanctions and Pakistan’s Strategic Indisposition
By: Aparna Rawal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Apr , 2024
On 19th April 2024, the United States imposed sanctions on three China based companies- Xi’an Longde Technology Development Company Limited, Tianjin Creative Source International Trade Co Ltd...
Pakistan’s Security Quandary: Juxtaposed activities of TTP, Taliban and...
By: Aparna Rawal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Apr , 2024
With the drastically evolving militant landscape of Pakistan, several small militant groups have begun to emerge. Operating in the shadows, they are proving to be highly efficient in their attacks...
Surviving its Own Game Play: Rise in Anti Pak Insurgencies- The BLA and others
By: Aparna Rawal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Apr , 2024
On 26th March 2024, the Balochistan Liberation Army’s (BLA’s) Majeed Brigade attacked PNS Siddique, which is the second largest Naval base in Pakistan after the PNS Mehran. PNS Siddique is...
Pakistan’s Afghan refoulement: Phase 2
By: Aparna Rawal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Mar , 2024
As of 25th March 2024, Pakistan’s preparations have commenced to initiate the second phase of the repatriation of the Afghan refugees. Despite the ambiguity on the precise number of the...
Pakistan boosts Telecommunication towers in POJK to aid terrorists
By: Aparna Rawal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Feb , 2024
Recently, reports of an increase in telecom Towers along the Line of Control in Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir have been surfacing. It is believed the increment in the number of towers along...
Pakistan's Cross-Border Terrorism
By: Aparna Rawal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Feb , 2024
On 14thFebruary 2024, the Pakistani Rangers violated ceasefire agreement with India, which resulted in crossfire from the Indian Border security Force (BSF) post along the international border...
China and the Question of Tibet
By: Aparna Rawal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Feb , 2024
Since China’s invasion of Tibet in 1951, Beijing’s propaganda machinery has been striving to maintain its precipitancy inproving the legitimacy of its claims on Tibet. In the process, China...
Pakistan-ISK reciprocity in countering Taliban
By: Aparna Rawal | Date: 01 Feb , 2024
On January 20th,2024, a violent conflagration between the Afghan armed forces and Pakistani military broke out along the Durand line in Sirkanay district in Afghanistan. Heavy artillery exchange...
JeM: The resurgence of Pakistan’s Hydra
By: Aparna Rawal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Nov , 2023
On November 15th 2023, it was reported, Dilawar Iqbal an important aide of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief, Maulana Masood Azhar and another individual, Mohammed Ubaid Malik were charge sheeted by...
Pakistan’s Albatross, its growing insurgency
By: Aparna Rawal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Nov , 2023
On 7th November, two policemen were killedwhile three others were severely injured in an attack which targeted an Oil and Gas Exploration Company’s camp in Dera IsmailKhan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
Pakistan’s blasphemy laws: strengthened and weaponised against the minorities
By: Aparna Rawal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Oct , 2023
“They have been burned to death, hanged by mobs, shot dead in courtrooms and hacked to death on the side of the road, among other forms of extrajudicial executions”, reported Al Jazeera in...
India flags US envoy's visit to POK
By: Aparna Rawal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2023
“Respect our sovereignty”, as New Delhi recapitulated and reiterated these words post the US Ambassador Blome’s visit to Gilgit-Baltistan in POK recently. This was the second visit of Blome to...
Hypocrisy of Pakistan at UNGA
By: Aparna Rawal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Sep , 2023
For years, Pakistan has been tumultuous at raking issues with regards to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) before the world leaders. On September 22nd 2023, the present interim Prime Minister of Pakistan...
Operation Chitral: Pakistan’s TTP Threat
By: Aparna Rawal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Sep , 2023
On September 6th 2023, Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) launched an extensive operation in Chitral district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).The operation commenced on the day, when Pakistan was celebrating its...
Baloch Liberation Army Revs up its Activities
By: Aparna Rawal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Aug , 2023
Post the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) attack on a convoy of Chinese engineers in Gwadar on August 13th, the rebel outfit has issued a 90 days ultimatum to the Chinese citizens. The BLA has asked...
Baloch resentment against Chinese 'colonisation' runs deep
By: Aparna Rawal | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 25 Jan , 2019
The continual subjugation and marginalization of the Baloch people by the Pakistani government has left the province of Balochistan in a chaotic milieu. The Baloch strife for self-determination...