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の「ヘロフ2.0」がバローチスターン9地区を攻撃し、軍はカイバル・パクトゥンクワ州でTTPと交戦。5月のクエッタ旅客列車への自殺爆弾攻撃で30人超が死亡し、国内叛乱が激化