SURGING cross-border terrorism in Pakistan should not be viewed in a narrower bi-lateral or tri-lateral issue between Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. Indian-sponsored anti-Pakistan proxies directly undermine the strategic interests of regional and global players by destabilizing the Afghan transit route, disrupting Central Asian energy corridors and increasing the risk of a nuclear escalation. Dirty game of proxies and cross-border terrorism patronized by state actors from New Delhi is equally denting the strategic interests of her ally USA.

To many sane minds, the USA is undermining its own strategic and economic goals in Eurasia by overlooking terrorist networks using Afghan territory to destabilize western parts of Pakistan, a trend that simultaneously cedes influence to China. Crucially, this instability impacts Balochistan, a region holding over 55% of Pakistan’s mineral resources, including the massive Reko Diq copper-gold deposit. To secure critical minerals........

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