On March 26, a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a convoy of Chinese engineers near Besham in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The convoy was en route from Islamabad to the site of the Dasu hydropower project, a 4,320-megawatt power project on the Indus River. The attack left five Chinese engineers and their driver … Read more
On his maiden visit to the United States in December 2023, General Syed Asim Munir, Pakistan’s chief of Army Staff (COAS), was greeted with red-carpet treatment from key government and defense officials, from Secretary of State Antony Blinken to General Michael Erik Kurilla, chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), among others. These high-level visits reaffirmed … Read more
The recent attack on a bus on the Karakoram Highway has raised concerns about the security of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) routes. The attack resulted in the tragic loss of at least nine people, prompting Pakistan to label it as an “act of terrorism.” Pakistan’s interim Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar denounced the incident and … Read more