The Durand Dispatch: Pakistan Security Bulletin
January – April 2026 A Force on the Fault Line – How Pakistan’s Provincial Police Became the Deliberate Target
How Pakistan’s Provincial Police Became the Deliberate Target
Open War, Stalled Peace
The Durand Line in 2026
Inside Balochistan’s Escalating Insurgency
Published in The Conversation, 14 May 2026 Decoding Al-Mirsaad, The Afghan Taliban’s Strategic Communications Apparatus (1)
May 2026
Heretics, Adversaries, and Legitimacy: Decoding Al-Mirsaad, The Afghan Taliban’s Strategic Communications Apparatus
May 2026
New ICCT Analysis: Engineering the Virtual Caliphate — Islamic State’s Exploitation of Gen-Z Culture
By Saif Tahir & Amira Jadoon | Published in ICCT, 28 April 2026
Durand Dispatch: Strategic Messaging
April 2026 Volume 1, Issue 3 Analyzing Invade: Islamic State’s New Pakistan-Focused Propaganda Magazine
Islamic State, Afghanistan, Pakistan
From Chitral to Karachi: The Tehrik-i-Taliban’s Year-Long Geographic Expansion in 2025
For much of its existence, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has been understood as a threat emanating from Pakistan’s Pashtun-dominated northwest — a regional insurgency with a bounded geographic logic. The events of 2025 challenge that framing. Across the past twelve months, the TTP has moved with apparent intention to reconstitute itself as a nationwide militant […]