Kautilya, when ousted by the Nanda dynasty helped in buttressing the Mauryan empire through his academic and worldly teachings. Theoretical perspectives and reminiscent of his commandment established the significance of a peaceful neighborhood for Arthashastra. Although the states always looks for alliance beyond the first Mandala (circle of states), peace and influence in the immediate neighborhood remains the topmost priority. […]

The EU and India have launched a Trade and Technology Council (TTC), a bilateral forum to prioritise their partnership through cooperation in digital governance, green and clean energy technologies, and resilient value chains, trade and investment. The Council is a response to increasing great-power competition and a desire on both sides to bolster their respective strategic autonomies, with the potential […]

The South Asian neighbourhood is in flux. Sri Lanka and Pakistan are facing economic headwinds, with the former having gone through a full-blown economic collapse and the latter facing huge external debts, power shortages, and extreme inflation. Both are awaiting a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF has also sanctioned a precautionary loan of US $4.7 billion […]

China has become a global leader in the electric vehicles (EVs) sector, and Western governments are worried that its comparative advantage will become entrenched. Once again, mainstream pundits blame China’s success on government subsidies and unfair competition. This is just a pretext to argue for more government support in a sector which, from the very beginning, has not been driven […]

Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and police killed six ‘terrorists’ in a joint operation in the Lakki Marwat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. According to details, the CTD and police in a joint operation in Lakki Marwat’s Daddiwala area met an encounter with the terrorists. The terrorists were planning to carry out an attack at police station Abbasa, the police said. […]

The counter-terrorism department killed a militant and arrested five others in an operation in Tela Band area, some 20 kilometres south of the provincial capital, early on Wednesday. A senior police official told Dawn on condition of anonymity that the operation was carried out after receiving intelligence about the presence of militants in the area. He said the militants both […]

Pakistan’s defence minister and spy chief held talks with Taliban government officials in Kabul Wednesday on ways to counter the “threat of terrorism,” days after Islamabad blamed Afghanistan-based militants for deadly recent attacks. Pakistan accuses the Afghan Taliban of harbouring militants from its own home-grown version of the Islamist group, a charge Kabul denies. Afghan officials led by deputy Prime […]

The Taliban-led interim government in Afghanistan has assured the Pakistani delegation of an action against sanctuaries of the banned TTP on its soil as Islamabad took up the matter of terrorism incidents with Kabul. The promise was made as a high-level delegation led by Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif visited the neighbouring country. Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen Nadeem […]

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) administration has set up a consortium of companies, including some in Russia, Iran and Pakistan, to create an investment plan focusing on power, mining and infrastructure, the commerce minister said on Wednesday. The consortium included 14 Afghan businessmen and foreign companies who would send delegates to Kabul to look into projects worth up to […]

S’il est aujourd’hui peu intéressant de se focaliser sur les prétendus spécialistes occidentaux qui il y a encore récemment espéraient voir l’économie de la Russie à genoux et aujourd’hui se retrouvent à admettre « le miracle économique russe », il est au contraire très important d’entendre l’opinion d’experts issus de la principale économie du monde – la Chine. Xu Poling, […]