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• 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
• Tajikistan Reports Five Dead in Cross-Border Attacks From Afghanistan
  December 8, 2025
  Tajikistan has accused armed groups operating from Afghanistan of carrying out two deadly cross-border attacks over the past week, leaving five people dead and five others injured in what officials describe as a
• Drug cultivation in Afghanistan has ‘almost dropped to zero’: deputy interior minister
  December 8, 2025
  Abdul Rahman Munir, the Deputy Minister for Counter-Narcotics at the Ministry of Interior, said on Saturday at the meeting of the Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Centre for Combating Drugs (CARICC)
• Balancing Interests in the India–Russia Equation
  December 8, 2025
  The December 2025 meeting between Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi in Delhi came at a moment when Russia continues to face Western economic pressure and India is navigating a shifting multipolar environment. The visit
• Tajikistan says five killed in shootings from Afghan territory amid rising border tensions
  December 8, 2025
  Tajikistan said on Monday that five people were killed and five others wounded over the past week in two separate shooting incidents originating from inside Afghan territory, marking a further escalation in security
• Taliban, Pakistani forces clash at Spin Boldak
  December 8, 2025
  Taliban and Pakistani border forces exchanged fire at the Spin Boldak crossing in Kandahar province on Friday night, both sides said, marking the latest flare-up along a frontier that has seen repeated clashes over the
• The India Trump Made
  December 8, 2025
  Over the last decade, India has drawn ever closer to the United States, tentatively aligning itself with Washington as it continues to eschew formal alliances. This approach has paid off, securing U.S. investment,
• South Asia Intelligence Review
  December 4, 2025
  Derailing the Lifeline On November 29, 2025, an improvised explosive device (IED) planted on the railway track detonated shortly before a train was expected to arrive in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan.
• Complications of the ‘Cooperative Rivalry’ Between Iran and Pakistan
  December 4, 2025
  Iranian President Masoud Pezhakian’s visit to Islamabad on August 2, which led to the signing of 12 cooperation agreements between Iran and Pakistan, is a reflection of the 12-day Israel-Iran war. Pakistan strongly
• Muslim Question in India after 78 Years of Independence
  December 2, 2025
  Seventy-eight years after India’s independence in 1947, the condition of the country’s Muslim community raises a number of enduring questions—about equity, integration, and justice. The community, which comprises