The Iranian Foreign Minister’s Trip To Islamabad Is An Opportunity To Patch Up Their Problems By Andrew Korybko If Foreign Minister Abdollahian can at least convince his hosts to seriously explore creating a joint security mechanism as the first step towards… Read More ›
Pakistan
Debunking The Theory That Iran And Pakistan Secretly Coordinated Their Strikes Against One Another
Debunking The Theory That Iran And Pakistan Secretly Coordinated Their Strikes Against One Another By Andrew Korybko Many among the Alt-Media Community have an over-simplistic view of International Relations whereby they tend to imagine that all countries that support multipolarity are… Read More ›
Here’s How The Pakistani Establishment Benefits From The Latest Tensions With Iran
Here’s How The Pakistani Establishment Benefits From The Latest Tensions With Iran By Andrew Korybko Observers might expect that the exacerbation of long-running Iranian-Pakistani tensions would be against Islamabad’s interests, just like they might think the same about closer Indian-Iranian relations… Read More ›
Worsening Iranian-Pakistani Tensions Could Threaten Eurasian Integration Processes
Worsening Iranian-Pakistani Tensions Could Threaten Eurasian Integration Processes By Andrew Korybko Unless there’s an all-out conventional war between Iran and Pakistan, which isn’t expected unless their newly exacerbated but long-running security dilemma spirals out of control into one by miscalculation (perhaps… Read More ›
Pakistan’s Retaliation Against Iran Debunks The Theory That They’re Secretly Cooperating
Pakistan’s Retaliation Against Iran Debunks The Theory That They’re Secretly Cooperating By Andrew Korybko Iran absolutely wouldn’t have authorized any retaliatory Pakistani strikes on its territory like Mohammad Marandi and Pepe Escobar’s explicitly stated and strongly implied theories would respectively suggest… Read More ›
The Optics And Timing Of Iran’s Strikes In Pakistan Are More Important Than The Military Impact
The Optics And Timing Of Iran’s Strikes In Pakistan Are More Important Than The Military Impact By Andrew Korybko The impression that Iran regards Pakistan as a serious security threat on par with the Israeli spy base in Iraq and ISIS… Read More ›
The Re-Establishment Of American Drone Bases In Pakistan Would Be Mutually Detrimental
The Re-Establishment Of American Drone Bases In Pakistan Would Be Mutually Detrimental By Andrew Korybko The speculation prompted by Balochistan interim Information Minister Jan Achakzai’s now-deleted tweet is probably just a tempest in a teapot. Balochistan’s interim Information Minister Jan Achakzai… Read More ›
India’s Endgame In Kashmir: Consummation Of Settler-Colonial Occupation
India’s Endgame In Kashmir: Consummation Of Settler-Colonial Occupation By Tariq Ahmed India’s endgame in Kashmir is the consummation of settler-colonial occupation; Kashmiris’ goal is to uproot it. Kashmir and India have been in a state of political turmoil for a… Read More ›
Russia Will Only Extend Perfunctory Support For Pakistan’s Membership In BRICS
Russia Will Only Extend Perfunctory Support For Pakistan’s Membership In BRICS By Andrew Korybko This assessment will remain even in the far-fetched scenario that Pakistan’s de facto US-aligned military leadership approves the clinching of their long-awaited strategic energy deal and bilateral… Read More ›
The New Pakistani Ambassador To Russia Hopes For More Mutually Beneficial Cooperation
The New Pakistani Ambassador To Russia Hopes For More Mutually Beneficial Cooperation By Andrew Korybko Ambassador Jamali is truly committed to implementing the ambitious vision for bilateral ties that he described to TASS, but he’ll remain unable to make tangible progress… Read More ›