The Border War Beneath the Border
For years Pakistan and Iran have preferred to describe violence in their Baloch regions as a series of incidents. A convoy is ambushed, a police post attacked, a patrol disappears, a checkpoint is bombed, a border district is sealed, a note of protest
A Frontier That No Longer Behaves Like a Margin
Borders become dangerous not only when armies cross them, but when states stop governing what the border has already become. The Pakistan-Iran frontier has long been described as a remote security belt, a rough edge of sovereignty where smugglers, insurgents, tribes, and underfunded
Faultlines Without Frontlines: Spillover Risks and the Unquiet Pakistan–Iran Border After the 2026 War
In the aftermath of the 2026 conflict involving Iran, the geography of instability has begun to extend beyond the immediate theatre of war, diffusing into adjacent regions through channels that are as much social and ideological as they are territorial. Nowhere is this