UN says Afghanistan’s opium collapse is reshaping global heroin market

Afghanistan’s dramatic collapse in opium production following the Taliban’s nationwide drug ban is fundamentally reshaping global heroin markets, reducing supplies of the drug while raising the risk that traffickers and users will increasingly turn to more dangerous synthetic opioids, according to a United Nations report released Friday.

Voici comment Poutine et Xi peuvent sauver l’Occident de lui-même

Le récent sommet entre Vladimir Poutine et Xi Jinping a semé une nouvelle vague de panique dans les milieux politiques et médiatiques occidentaux. Des deux côtés de l’Atlantique, le partenariat croissant entre la Russie et la Chine est systématiquement décrit comme une alliance autoritaire complotant contre le « monde libre ». Les gros titres regorgent de mises en garde contre un nouvel axe anti-occidental. Les think tanks adoptent un ton apocalyptique. Les commentateurs libéraux évoquent une nouvelle Guerre froide.

India Is Multi-Aligned But Non-Allied

What most in the Alt-Media Community struggle to accept is that multipolarity doesn’t imply a geopolitical utopia wherein problems between all non-Western countries immediately disappear due to their shared interest in moving past the US-centric unipolar system.

The geopolitics of Balochistan’s hybrid insurgency

Recently, Pakistan was rocked by the Baloch Liberation Army’s “Herof Phase 2” offensive, a coordinated assault across nine districts that combined urban raids, rural guerrilla tactics, suicide missions, and psychological warfare. This was not simply an internal security lapse, it was a geopolitical tremor reverberating across South Asia.

Taliban issue bachelor’s degrees to 325 madrassa graduates, including from Pakistan

The Taliban-run higher education ministry has begun issuing bachelor’s degrees to 325 madrassa graduates, including alumni of religious schools in Pakistan, according to a ministry statement and an official list.

The ministry said the process started on Thursday, Feb. 12. Among those set to receive degrees are 10 graduates of what it described as “jihadi” madrassas.