Jan Achakzai is a geopolitical analyst, a party leader in the ruling PML-N party, and advisor to Balochistan Government on media and strategic communication. He remained associated with BBC World Service in London covering South and West Asia.
Balochistan is located on Iran's southern outskirts. To disguise its stealth security dimension, Iran has devised a two-pronged strategy: on the one hand, it has dealt with iron-fisted Sunni Iranian Baloch separatists in Sistan Balochistan, while on the other, it has begun to hedge Pakistani Baloch extremists.
We need to understand what happened in Ukraine to make sense of what is going on in the area. The Russian strategic goal behind its large deployment on Ukraine's borders was to overthrow Kyiv's government and seize the country.
The government of Pakistan has signed yet another agreement with the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) after a two-week-long protest by the group, which killed scores of policemen and caused massive economic losses. This standoff has given important lessons for the future as well.
According to Jan Achakzai, a geopolitical analyst, under Lt Gen Nadeem's leadership, the stature of ISI will be restored to new glory as he is undoubtedly a man with profound sentiment and who has a flair for embracing the bitter realities.
Jan Achakzai, a geopolitical analyst from Balochistan, discusses the massive anti-Taliban and anti-Pakistan sentiments festering in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. In an eye-opening piece, Jan Achakzai narrates that such sentiments can be weaponized against the Taliban and Pakistan easily.
For the first time, in a sign of a breakthrough, Pakistan and the Biden Administration in the United States have expressed readiness for cooperation...
