A nuclear-armed South Asian republic of 251 million, Pakistan is the pivot between India, China, Afghanistan, and the Gulf, and one of the world's most acutely distressed sovereign-debt cases.
Pakistan's simultaneous Islamist TTP and Baloch BLA insurgencies killed 3,400-plus in 2025, threatening nuclear-state stability and Chinese CPEC infrastructure across Balochistan.
BLA's 'Herof 2.0' hit nine Balochistan districts while the army battled the TTP in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; a May suicide truck bombing of a Quetta train killed 30+ as the internal insurgencies escalate