With the completion of the first decade of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and its flagship project, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), there has been a significant surge in terrorism within its member countries, notably Pakistan. This surge underscores emerging socio-economic, geopolitical, and geostrategic tensions in the region and beyond.

Moreover, hangover of the war lord’s mentality of interim set-up of Taliban, regrouping of TTP, TTA, BLA, MB, US-China trade/economic war, decoupling, delinking, China’s Collapse/Peak, China’s Overcapacity hypes, the US constant & continued national narrative about China’s Containment and complex geopolitics of the South China Sea, Asia NATO, expansion of the AUKUS, reactivation of QUAD, disruptions in the Red Sea, volatility in greater Eurasian region and, last but not the least, Japan militarization and geostrategic of missiles in Asia-Pacific also act like a supplemental pushing factors of increasing terrorist activities in Pakistan. Thus the journey of trans-regional connectivity, immense socio-economic prosperity, infrastructure development and green transformation has been somehow compromised and compressed in the member countries and, of course, in Pakistan.

The recent surge in terrorist attacks in Pakistan has prompted urgent discussions on enhancing security measures to safeguard Chinese workers and CPEC projects. The emergence of a Shadow Province in Balochistan, attributed to groups like TTP, BLA, and MB, poses a significant threat. Additionally, Al-Qaeda infiltration in Gilgit Baltistan and the reactivation of Sleeper Cells in urban areas highlight serious security concerns for policymakers and security agencies. These developments jeopardize both national security........

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