Opinion

The long-awaited deal, on the horizon, has finally been agreed upon by the US and Iran, with the final MoU due to be signed in Geneva. While the deal ends …

India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, recently concluded a four-country tour of Europe, with visits to the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Italy. The tour was aimed partly at consolidating political and …

As Washington deepens tactical engagement with Pakistan, Islamabad is simultaneously aligning itself more closely with China on Taiwan, the South China Sea, CPEC and Beijing’s broader strategic vision. This growing …

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 …

In May this year, three sets of news dominated headlines about India-Nepal ties. The first, Nepal’s new Prime Minister Balendra Shah-led government, objected to the India-China agreement on the Kailash …

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 …

The first serious backchannel talks, or Track-1.5 dialogues, between two countries began in 1987, when India was engaged in Operation Brasstacks, a massive war exercise by the Indian armed forces …

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 …

The unrest in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) has entered a far more dangerous phase than earlier reported. What began as a ban on the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action …

For two and a half centuries, the story of great powers has been written in conquest, ideology, or coercion. Britain built its dominance on the backs of colonized peoples. America …

When Nigerians think of India, many do not think first of diplomacy, trade figures or official communiqués. They think of the Indian teachers who shaped their classrooms, the doctors who …

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 …

A common sentiment across media commentary surrounding Marco Rubio’s recent visit to India was whether the QUAD had lost momentum and if Washington still viewed India as central to Indo-Pacific …

A senior Indian Armed Forces official once told me that citations are what make the world run. He did not simply mean footnotes. He was talking about the scholarship that …

In an unprecedented situation, ceasefire prospects have been further complicated, and the risks and regional anxiety of a complete collapse of the ceasefire or of the deal on the table …

The current US foreign policy is widely perceived as assaulting the USA’s global alliance system, adhering to President Donald Trump’s unhinged and vacuous distaste for alliance politics. The Trump administration’s …

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 …

In the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held in New Delhi in May 2026, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar strongly criticised unilateral sanctions, describing them as “unjustifiable” and inconsistent with international …

Guns have fallen silent at the Af-Pak border after deadly clashes between the Taliban and Pakistan, with only limited skirmishes. The ceasefire maintaining this silence at the border is fragile, …

In 2002, the Indian government under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee embarked upon an ambitious National River Linking Project (NRLP) to interlink around 30 major rivers. The idea behind this …

For centuries, the dream of a navigable Arctic passage was the preserve of explorers willing to risk frostbite and oblivion. Today, that dream has become a geopolitical strategy. As climate …