On July 9, 2026, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif convened Balochistan’s Provincial Apex Committee in Quetta, Field Marshal Asim Munir at his side, after a wave of attacks that had killed …
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Between 2014 and 2024, India added more internet users than live in the United States today, and its citizens now make up the largest national user base anywhere (DataReportal 2024) …
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Opinion
From Ukraine’s Drones to Russia’s Fuel Crisis: How India Became the Strategic Refiner of a Changing World
Russia was the world’s second-largest crude oil exporter as recently as 2023, trailing only Saudi Arabia (EIA 2025). In July 2026 it also became, for the first time in its …
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When Iranian forces effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz on 28 February 2026, global oil markets braced for catastrophe. Roughly one-fifth of the world’s seaborne oil and a comparable share …
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Opinion
PoK’s Moment of Reckoning: Popular Resistance, Governance Failure and the Crisis of State Legitimacy
On June 23, 2026, a deadline issued by Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir’s Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) expired without resolution, pressing a question Islamabad has long preferred to defer: when does persistent …
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After calling it the worst agreement in American history, Trump’s administration has rebuilt Obama’s Iran framework, just at a much higher price. Three Indian sailors killed by American strikes in …
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Opinion
From Moral Lectures to Strategic Realities: Normative Decline, Structural Multipolarity and the End of Uncontested Western Legitimacy
When India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar responded to a Finnish interlocutor’s criticism of Indian oil purchases from Russia — ‘I buy oil based on cost and availability’ — the …
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Three Indian merchant mariners died in the Strait of Hormuz in late 2023 and early 2024 as drone attacks struck vessels they crewed. India’s diplomatic protest was duly registered and …
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Opinion
From Economic Grievances to Political Resistance: The Evolving Crisis in Pakistan-Occupied Jammu & Kashmir
Pakistan has administered the territory it calls Azad Jammu and Kashmir for more than seven decades under a governance model whose central contradiction has now become inescapable: Islamabad presents the …
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Russia’s war in Ukraine has transformed North Korea from China’s dependent buffer into a more autonomous strategic actor—weakening Beijing’s exclusive leverage and generating cascading security dilemmas across Northeast Asia. INTRODUCTION …
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Opinion
Pakistan’s Abraham Accords Trap: Caught Between Washington’s Demands and the Monsters of Its Own Making
When Donald Trump urged Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan to join the Abraham Accords on a May 2026 conference call, the silence on the line was revealing. Pakistan’s …
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India did not merely reject a communiqué. It rejected a pattern — and the world should pay attention. In June 2026, the European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas flew …
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India’s Energy Diplomacy in an Age of War, Sanctions and Strategic Fragmentation Introduction: The Puzzle of the Non-Aligned Buyer In February 2026, under a framework agreement that cut American tariffs …
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When rivals need each other, the rules of power change. The Iran crisis is rewriting them in real time. There is a moment in every great crisis when the map …
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On 17–18 May 2026, Drop Site News published Cable I-0678 in full — the classified Pakistani diplomatic cipher that Imran Khan had cited since April 2022 as evidence of American …
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Opinion
From Strait to Systemic Shock: How the US–Iran Conflict is Reshaping the Global Economic Order
The escalation of the U.S.–Iran conflict in early 2026 has transitioned from a localized security crisis to a systemic reset of the international economic order. This paper provides a comprehensive, …
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How the US–Iran Confrontation Is Transmitting an Oil Shock Through Pakistan’s Economy — and Why the Region Cannot Afford to Look Away The escalating military and diplomatic confrontation between the …
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On April 29, 2026, the United Arab Emirates formally terminated its 59-year membership in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The announcement, made in Abu Dhabi, was measured …