Opinion

In 1983, perhaps the dangers of the Cuban Missile Crisis resurfaced when two similar events occurred in the same year, but this time not because of deterrence and Cold War …

On September 16-17, 2026, Pakistan and China established a new border commission in Islamabad. India promptly dismissed the initiative as lacking legitimacy. According to Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir …

India’s 2026 BRICS presidency has placed its relationship with China within a revealing paradox. New Delhi and Beijing remain strategic competitors, divided by an unsettled boundary, an asymmetric trade relationship …

In late August, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh approved the transfer of technologies developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for conventional missile systems to qualified Indian defence companies …

The UN General Assembly is a noisy room. Most countries speak once and vanish into the record. What is rarer is to be named, again and again, in other people’s …

The just-concluded 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, held with pomp and ceremony, drew global attention as a gala event of non-Western emerging powers; the interest exhibited by the Association …

The Ministry of Defence’s Annual Report for 2025–26 states that 2025 witnessed a “significant reduction in deployment of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Forces opposite Northern Borders.” It also notes that …

Pakistan is facing challenges on almost every front. The diplomatic depth created by Munir’s Mecca-and-West Asia propaganda diplomacy is now fading. Pakistan’s security establishment is confronting a hard reality, prompting …

The most important number in the latest U.S. sanctions legislation is not 100%. It is 88.7%. That is the approximate share of India’s crude-oil requirement met through imports in 2025-26. …

The first Visegrád Group–India foreign ministers’ meeting, held in New York on 21 September 2026 on the margins of the 81st United Nations General Assembly, produced a sentence that European …

At a time when farmers across the world are facing challenges of climate, environmental crisis, and growing agrarian distress, the BRICS countries are getting ready to reach out to them …

After a year, the Trump Administration’s tariff drama is back on the table, with a more targeted, tougher design. Last year, it was the US’s standard tool of economic coercion …

On Friday, 11 September, Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq flew to New Delhi, posed at an Iranian embassy exhibition, and sat down with President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines …

The new comprehensive strategic partnership gives New Delhi and Tashkent a chance to turn a strong bilateral relationship into a practical platform for regional cooperation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state …

In August 2026, Jiangxi Electric Power Construction, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned company PowerChina, withdrew from the bidding process for the privatisation of Pakistan’s Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO), …

Shocking news came in from the city of Kohat, not far from the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. At least 31 people have died in a terrorist attack so far. …

Japan’s Defence of Japan 2026 marks an important stage in Tokyo’s continuing transformation from a predominantly reactive security actor into a more capable, networked and technologically integrated power. Its central …

In another strategically audacious move, Iran has unleashed its proxy network, especially the Houthis, to launch targeted strikes in Saudi Arabia, damaging key oil pipeline networks and advancing towards the …

Recent developments have underscored for many countries the importance of robust nuclear energy programmes that can power the economy amid rapidly changing geopolitical dynamics. More specifically, there is considerable discussion …

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 …

India’s bilateral meeting with China on the sidelines of the recently concluded BRICS is largely seen as a reset in Indo-China ties. However, this ‘reset’ is not the full picture …