The recent duel between India and Pakistan fought from May 6-10, 2025, have damaged beyond repair their interstate relations, and torpedoed prospects of peace. The victims are the peace-loving citizens on both sides of the divide who wanted to see congenial ties take roots, a good neighbourhood ambience set in and the potential of trade…
President Donald Trump took over the White House with the express intent to ‘fix it all’. Apart from his Russian roulette, wherein he is all set to strike a New Deal with the ‘Evil Empire’ of yesteryears, and rewrite a new subjugated protocol with the allied Europe at large, Trump has his eyes on the…
It is commonly assessed that the foreign policy of the United States changed for good after the 9/11 attacks. But that is not the case, per se. America is transforming under the second presidency of Donald Trump, and it seems there isn’t any looking back. The maverick style of governance of the impulsive leader is…
It is rightly said that Bengalis have a tipping point of endurance, especially when it comes to deviation from democratic norms, and beyond that they take a call. That is exactly what Bangladesh experienced as their craving for genuine representation was trampled for 15 years by the Awami League rule under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina…
Al Jazeera, on a lean day, in November 2012 quoted Syrian President Bashar Al Assad as saying, “I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria….” That was a rejoinder from the now fallen Alawite leader to an offer from the then British Prime Minister David…
On the 500th day of his incarceration, former Prime Minister Imran Khan was resilient as he vowed to ‘fight’ on for years to come. He is under detention on the premise of unending case-logs that are conventional pieces of political victimization in our pseudo democratic-hybrid governance. That also marks the synopsis of prevailing political discord…
Donald Trump’s return to the White House is a historic first given to understand the psyche and conventions of American politics. The fact that the impulsive, firebrand and X-obsessed leader stood his ground and continued to campaign on an agenda that irked the powerful US security establishment, and was at odds with many of the…
The Middle East is in a region in flux. Israel is out to carve out new dynamics solely premised on aggression and intimidation, and the timeline of revulsion for the last one year confirms that any hope for a Palestinian statehood stands dashed. Gaza has been completely obliterated and the West Bank is at the…
It was anguish, boil down for revenge and days later, New Normal. That is how one can decipher the post-October 7, 2023, timeline of Gaza and the Middle East. It is pathetic and conscious-chilling to note that more than 50,000 have died so far, as Palestinians keep their fingers crossed. A year-long trajectory proved that…
Pakistan’s economy is in the woods, and it is impacting national security in the long run. The country’s desperateness to strike a deal once again with the Washington-based lender, the IMF, has come with severe geo-strategic crosscurrents. The Fund is out to fleece a pound of flesh and wants it to be bloodless. Thus, a…
