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Nancy Grewal’s Murder in Canada: Khalistan Links and Prior Threats

Nancy had said she was unsafe. She had said her home was targeted. She had gone to police with names.

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Michael Arizanti March 31, 2026March 31, 2026 Bastar insurgency, Chhattisgarh Maoist conflict, counterinsurgency and development, CPI Maoist India, global insurgency studies, India counterinsurgency strategy, India internal security, India Maoist insurgency, insurgency resolution strategies, Left Wing Extremism India, Maoist decline 2025, Maoist surrender India, Naxalite movement, political violence analysis, rehabilitation of insurgents India, rural insurgency India, security and development policy, terrorism trends analysis, trust based governance India, Zahack Tanvir Times of Israel

A Different Ending: India’s Quiet Victory Over Leftwing Extremism

The increasing number of voluntary surrenders suggests that more people now see returning as a viable option. For anyone who

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Michael Arizanti March 30, 2026March 30, 2026 Balochistan human rights, diaspora security Europe, enforced disappearances Pakistan, Freedom House transnational repression, Geneva human rights debate, Geneva UNHRC, global terrorism research, human rights violations Pakistan, Idris Khattak case, international human rights law, journalist harassment Pakistan, Junaid Safdar Gulfstream jet, Karachi police intimidation, Maryam Nawaz controversy, Pakistan activists abroad, Pakistan diaspora intimidation, Pakistan human rights, Pakistan repression, political coercion global trends, Roshaan Khattak, state repression trends, Sweden terrorism research, transnational repression, United Nations Human Rights Council 61st session

Geneva Raises the Alarm on Pakistan’s Transnational Repression

What is unfolding in Pakistan’s case is part of a wider global trend. The line between domestic and international repression

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Omer Waziri March 8, 2026March 8, 2026 Asif Merchant, Asif Merchant conviction 2026, Asif Merchant IRGC case, Brooklyn federal trial Asif Merchant, Donald Trump assassination plot 2024, Farhad Shakeri IRGC case New York, FBI undercover hitman case, foreign intelligence operations United States, geopolitical assassination plots, Iran assassination plot United States, Iran proxy networks intelligence operations, Iran retaliation strategy US officials, Iran revenge campaign against US leaders, Iran US tensions assassination plots, Iranian espionage and covert activities, Iranian intelligence assassination networks, Iranian revenge plot after Qasem Soleimani killing, IRGC assassination plot, IRGC covert operations, IRGC Quds Force operations, IRGC recruitment networks abroad, Majid Dastjani Farahani FBI alert, murder for hire terrorism case US, Pakistani national Asif Merchant, Qasem Soleimani drone strike impact, Shahram Poursafi John Bolton assassination plot, state sponsored assassination plots, terrorism and murder for hire conviction US, transnational covert operations Iran, US national security threats Iran

From Pakistan to Iran’s IRGC: How the Asif Merchant Plot Targeted U.S. Leaders

The Merchant case therefore fits a recognizable pattern: recruitment outside Iran, deployment in third countries, and reliance on criminal intermediaries

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Arun Anand February 25, 2026February 25, 2026 1971 war crimes memory, Afghanistan Pakistan policy comparison, Bangladesh First policy, Bangladesh general election 2025, Bangladesh nationalism, Bengali linguistic nationalism, BNP landslide victory, clerical diplomacy Pakistan, Deobandi politics South Asia, Dhaka verdict, foreign influence in Bangladesh politics, ideological affinity vs national interest, India Pakistan Bangladesh triangle, Islamist electoral failure, Islamist politics in Bangladesh, Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, Khaleda Zia legacy, Khatm-e-Nabuwat conferences, Maulana Fazlur Rehman Bangladesh visit, Muhammad Yunus interim government, Pakistan Bangladesh diplomacy, Pakistan Bangladesh relations, Pakistan foreign policy South Asia, Pakistan Islamist strategy, Pakistan military diplomacy, regional security South Asia, religious politics in South Asia, Sheikh Hasina removal, South Asia geopolitics, Tarique Rahman BNP

Dhaka’s Verdict: Why Pakistan’s Islamist Gamble Backfired

The Yunus-led interim government provided fertile ground for Pakistan to manoeuvre this policy. When Sheikh Hasina was removed from office

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Bhargav Prajapati February 10, 2026 AI driven demand minerals, artificial intelligence and rare earths, Bhargav Prajapati analysis, China rare earth dominance, clean energy supply chains, critical mineral free trade bloc, critical minerals strategy, deep sea mining India, defense technology minerals, emerging technologies and trade, global rare earth supply chain, global supply chain fragmentation, India rare earth reserves, India strategic autonomy, Indo US trade and technology, mineral security policy, rare earth elements, rare earth processing India, rare earth recycling technology, rare earths India, strategic minerals geopolitics, technological sovereignty India, US India critical minerals cooperation

OPINION: How Rare Earths Can Power India’s Strategic Autonomy

Collaborative research funding and institutional support would ensure that innovation translates into deployable solutions. Rare earths have quietly become one

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Omer Waziri February 5, 2026 Baloch activism, Baloch Liberation Army, Baloch nationalism, Baloch resistance, Baloch women movement, Balochistan conflict, Balochistan human rights crisis, enforced disappearances Pakistan, feminist movements Pakistan, gender and conflict South Asia, human rights in Balochistan, Indigenous political movements, Indigenous women leadership, Pakistani state violence, political repression Pakistan, South Asian geopolitics, women and nationalism, women in armed resistance, women in insurgency, women-led protests Balochistan

Indigenous Baloch Women and the New Face of Resistance

By organizing, leading, and, in some cases, fighting, Baloch women are challenging both state power and internal patriarchal constraints. An

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Ashiqur Rahman February 3, 2026February 3, 2026 Aisha Khadijah Shifa bint Abdullah, Bangladesh Islamist politics, feminist readings of Quran, gender and Islam, Islamic governance, Islamic interpretation, Islamic jurisprudence gender, Islamic theology debate, Jamaat-e-Islami, political islam, Queen Bilqis Islam, Quran and women, religion and politics South Asia, Surah An-Nisa 4 34, women and power Islam, women in Islamic history, women leadership in Islam, women political leadership Islam, women representation Islam

OPINION: Islam Didn’t Ban Women Leaders—Jamaat Islami Did

These examples suggest that women’s leadership was neither alien nor unacceptable in early Islamic practice. The discourse surrounding women’s leadership