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In today’s shifting global landscape, a new possibility is emerging in South and Central Asia: a new bloc comprising China, Russia, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. If realised, such a coalition could not only bring peace to o...
Few people, only a few months ago, may have imagined the state of relations between President Donald Trump of the United States and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India today. Of course, in international relations, there are no...
As global power dynamics continue to shift, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is positioning itself as a serious counterweight to traditional Western-dominated institutions. With 10 member states, two observer states, and 15...
Once again, monsoon rains have inundated vast stretches of Pakistan. Villages lie submerged, farmland ruined and families displaced. Such calamities are often described as “acts of God.” However, evidence increasingly shows ...
It apparently began with disagreement over a perk. Lawmakers in Jakarta, already widely distrusted, had approved a new monthly housing allowance — a sum nearly ten times the minimum wage in the capital. In a country where mill...
Floods are not new to Pakistan. Since the catastrophic deluge of 2010 that inundated a fifth of the nation to the record monsoon flood of 2022 that displaced 33 million people, the country has witnessed time and again how rising...
Shabana’s day begins long before sunrise in Thatta. By four in the morning she is walking to fetch water. She cooks for her children, cleans for her in-laws, tends to her husband and then stitches clothes to earn a few rupees....
Pakistan’s military has been a pivotal force in shaping national policymaking. This is a reality mirrored in numerous developing nations – Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Philippines, Egypt, Iraq, Brazil, Nigeria, Mexico, E...
On September 7, 2025, nearly two years into Israel’s war on Gaza, the human ledger is staggering. According to the UN’s humanitarian office (OCHA), 63,746 Palestinians have been killed and 161,245 wounded in Gaza since 7 Oct...
What a tough time this is to make a credible and coherent assessment of what is happening around us – and in the world at large. Even if our focus remains on the floods that have roared across the plains of this country for an...