As eleven BRICS economies adopted the New Delhi Declaration this week, India’s chairship offered a test case for a diplomatic model built less on picking sides than on refusing to …
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SCO, BRICS and the Pursuit of Strategic Autonomy 1. Introduction: The Puzzle of a Country That Refuses to Choose In a world splitting into rival camps, India remains in all …
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I. Introduction No religion appears anywhere in India’s Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026. That has not stopped five months of claims that it amounts to one: a US congressman …
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Opinion
Russia’s India Route, China’s BRI and Pakistan’s Dilemma: A New Battle for Eurasian Connectivity
Moscow rarely floats a rail line toward a country it has, at most, skirted the edges of for a century; since the Great Game, Russian planners have not taken physical …
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Opinion
Can Exile Reverse Regime Change? Sheikh Hasina’s Return and Bangladesh’s Political Reckoning
On August 5, in an audio address organized by New Delhi’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia, Sheikh Hasina told Bangladesh she is coming home (Associated Press 2026). The staging …
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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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