Pakistan’s targeted airstrikes inside Afghanistan have triggered more than cross-border tension. According to sources, a high-level Taliban conference in Kabul exposed rare and deepening fractures within the regime, with disagreements over Pakistan policy, militant sanctuaries, and even leadership succession.
After being presented as combat-tested during Pakistan’s confrontation with India, the JF-17 Thunder is drawing new global interest. Somalia’s potential 24-jet deal would mark the Horn of Africa nation’s largest air force modernisation in decades.
According to ISPR Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir held meetings with senior US and German officials and counterparts from Brazil and Lebanon at the Munich Security Conference, with counterterrorism and defence cooperation at the centre of discussions.
Prince Khalid bin Salman met Pakistan’s COAS Field Marshal Asim Munir in Riyadh as the World Defence Show convenes global defence leaders, reinforcing strategic ties that were formalised in a mutual defence agreement last year.
The JF-17 arrives in Riyadh with momentum after the May clash reignited scrutiny of air power, and Pakistan is using the spotlight to pitch an export package built around training, sustainment and reliability.
Operation Radd-ul-Fitna-1 has been successfully completed in Balochistan, with ISPR saying intelligence-based operations dismantled terrorist networks and dealt a major blow to their leadership and operational capacity.
ISPR says security forces killed 133 terrorists linked to Indian-sponsored Fitna al Hindustan after coordinated attacks across Balochistan, adding that sanitisation operations remain under way.
Pakistan has ruled out any move against Palestinian interests, rejected participation in any mission to disarm Hamas, and clarified that no decision has yet been taken on joining an international stabilisation force, according to a high-level security briefing.
US and Pakistani troops concluded the thirteenth Inspired Gambit exercise this week, highlighting enduring military cooperation and shared counterterrorism priorities.
US and Pakistani soldiers concluded Exercise Inspired Gambit this week, focusing on infantry coordination and counterterrorism tactics in a sign of sustained defence engagement between the two countries.
