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The latest Chinese media disclosure gives fresh weight to those Indian concerns. While the public remarks from Chinese engineers do not by themselves confirm every Indian claim about real-time intelligence or battlefield data sharing, they do establish that Chinese technical personnel were physically involved in supporting Pakistan’s Chinese-origin combat systems during the conflict. That is a major shift from the earlier perception of China as only a weapons supplier.

Tehran has shifted from its older pattern of calibrated, deniable responses toward a broader multidomain punishment campaign across missiles, drones, proxies, maritime pressure, cyber pressure, and attacks on economically sensitive targets.

Pakistan has been ranked the country most affected by terrorism in the Global Terrorism Index

Israel joins Saudi Arabia and Oman in naval exercise for the first time amid heightened Gulf tensions.

In the report ‘Kashmir Inc: a conflict Industry; beneficiaries across generations and continents’ Disinfo Lab states that for the Pak establishment, Kashmir conflict has become “a goose that lays golden eggs”.