The Kashmir Reset
Editorial Desk
May 20, 2026
India spent a decade trying to remove Kashmir from the world’s agenda; in four days of May 2025, that project collapsed.
- June 7, 2026
India spent a decade trying to remove Kashmir from the world’s agenda; in four days of May 2025, that project collapsed.
In just 24 days, Karachi processed more containers than it did in all of 2025; two months later, Gwadar broke that record too.
Before May 2025, Pakistan was a marginal arms exporter; after that, procurement officials across three continents changed their assessments.
If Pakistan were merely relaying externally crafted messaging, direct appreciation from Iran would be difficult to explain.
Pakistan’s successful response to multiple serious challenges in 2025 helped significantly raise its geopolitical profile.
Conflicting reports, geolocation data, and footage raise doubts over Taliban claims of targeting rehab center after Kabul strikes.
The Iran conflict is shattering the UAE’s three-decade-long image of peace and impacting Dubai’s expat-driven economy.
Modern conflict is turning territories into apocalyptic wastelands by dismantling the systems that sustain human life.
The Kech abduction highlights a trend of militant groups targeting women for high-impact operations through coercion.
The story of 2026 is one of balance, where new technology is helping to push the world forward even as trade arguments try to slow it down.
