Geopolitics
The Self-Immolation of a State: Pakistan's 2026 Security Catastrophe and the Lessons for the Global South
Balochistan has overtaken Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as Pakistan's most volatile region in 2026, with over 1,100 attacks, exposing the catastrophic failure of Pakistan's statecraft and its addiction to a 'kinetic-heavy' approach that ignores the root causes of terrorism, which are often sown by the very state's own flawed policies and historical support for extremist proxies.
