From Jihad to Hybrid Warfare: How the Taliban, ISIS, and Pakistan’s Deep State Redefined South Asia’s Shadow Wars
Prelude: A new tremor on the Durand Line. The strike you didn’t see on the evening news. They say geography is frozen politics — but on the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier, the lines are still molten, shifting with every strike, every whispered alliance, every ideological recalibration. In early October 2025, a string of violent clashes erupted along … Read more