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• Pakistan in Gaza: Jihad on Steroids
  December 26, 2025
  If you want to disarm Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups and promote peace and coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis, Pakistan is the wrong choice. Pakistan, which does not recognize Israel, has already
• The Great Betrayal: The Colonisation of Bharat by India
  December 26, 2025
  It is a long, tongue-twister of a name for a government scheme – ‘Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin)’. It is even more torturous to read if you are not a Hindi speaker. This is the
• Exclusive: Who is Mullah Shirin, the Taliban governor of Kandahar?
  December 26, 2025
  Mullah Shirin, the Taliban governor of Kandahar, has become one of the most powerful figures within the Taliban, wielding influence that in some cases surpasses the authority of their chief minister, multiple sources
• Haqqani met Akhundzada in Kandahar after criticism: Sources
  December 26, 2025
  Taliban Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani met Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada during a visit to the southern city of Kandahar, sources familiar with the matter told Amu TV. Details of the meeting have not been
• UN report says Taliban absorbed former fighters from terrorist groups into security ranks
  December 22, 2025
  Taliban have absorbed former fighters from various terrorist groups into their local security forces to draw on their combat experience, a United Nations sanctions monitoring report says, warning that the practice
• Between History and Strategy: Bangladesh-Pakistan Rapprochement and the Future of South Asian Geopolitics
  December 22, 2025
  The resumption of direct flights between Dhaka and Karachi in December 2025 is more than a matter of convenience. It symbolizes a broader recalibration in South Asian geopolitics following Bangladesh’s student-led
• Iran’s Bahrami invites Afghan FM Muttaqi to Tehran during Kabul meeting
  December 22, 2025
  Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Wednesday that Mohammad Reza Bahrami, Director General for South Asia at Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has invited the Islamic Emirate’s Foreign
• Islamic State is back Jungle jihadis threaten Southeast Asia
  December 22, 2025
  In early November, Sajid Akram, 50, and his bricklayer son Naveed, 24, travelled from Australia to the Philippines. Their destination was Davao, a city in Mindanao, the second-largest of the Philippines’ many
• China and the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
  December 22, 2025
  On 10 December 2025, U.S. forces seized the oil tanker Skipper off the coast of Venezuela, carrying over a million barrels of crude. “Well, we keep [the oil],” President Trump told reporters. Venezuela’s foreign
• Foreign Aid With Chinese Characteristics: Where Beijing Is—and Isn’t—Seeking Influence
  December 15, 2025
  Earlier this year, after U.S. President Donald Trump effectively shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, the world’s largest bilateral aid program, many observers raised fears that China would step in