Weigh prudence over bravado: Why US–Pakistan campaign of retaking Bagram could trigger wider war

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury | October 9, 2025 8:15 PM

Dhaka: The United States looks poised to return to the very theatre it once abandoned: Bagram. What Washington calls a tactical correction could quickly become a strategic rupture for South Asia. A renewed US push - now reportedly coordinated with Pakistan's security establishment - to retake Bagram Air Base and re-establish a foothold in Afghanistan risks detonating a broader regional conflagration, reigniting refugee flows, empowering jihadist networks and drawing Pakistan deeper into an unwinnable security quagmire. The question is not whether the dust will settle - it is how many countries, communities and lives will be buried beneath it.

'SAKSHAM': India's new eye in the sky to neutralise aerial threats

Saurabh Sharma | October 9, 2025 3:56 PM

New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Nearly five months after Operation Sindoor showed the prowess of the Indian security apparatus, including in the domain of neutralising nearly 400 drones fired by Pakistan to target Indian defence structures and civilian areas, the Indian Army has now initiated the procurement of an indigenously developed ‘SAKSHAM’ Counter Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Grid System.