Orchestrating their first act of violence in the current year, on January 10, 2024, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres shot dead their former comrade Nelson Bhengra near his house in West Singhbhum District, accusing him of being a ‘police informer’. Bhengra, a resident of Samtha village in Jeraikela, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Saranda Forest Division, was […]

The United States has led the international economic order for the last seventy-eight years, with only the Soviet Union posing a serious challenge. However, China is starting to pose a severe threat to the United States by trying to replace the US dollar as the world reserve currency. According to the International Monetary Fund, the Chinese yuan is the third-largest […]

If Foreign Minister Abdollahian can at least convince his hosts to seriously explore creating a joint security mechanism as the first step towards restoring mutual trust with a view towards eventually benefiting from the North-South Transport Corridor, then his trip could help alleviate the broader regional security dilemma. Pakistan announced on Monday that Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian will […]

India’s entry into the ranks of the world’s surviving theocracies — Iran, Afghanistan, the Vatican City — arrived bathetically. When the history of the nation’s descent from secularism to Hindu nationalism is written, it might end in Ayodhya. Just after noon yesterday, the Ram Temple was consecrated, a stone’s throw from the ruins of Babur’s Mosque, which was demolished three […]

Après l’Ukraine, les «sept fronts» d’Israël (Gallant dixit, ministre de la défense) ont atteint de nouveaux sommets lorsque les Gardiens de la révolution islamique d’Iran (CGRI) ont lancé de manière inattendue des missiles balistiques de représailles sur des cibles situées dans la capitale provinciale kurde d’Erbil, dans le nord de l’Irak, où le centre d’espionnage offshore du Mossad israélien a […]

Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan are preparing for a meeting on Afghanistan, which could take place by the end of this month, Russia’s presidential envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, told TASS. “The meeting is being prepared. It will take place,” he said. Kabulov remarked, “there is hope” that the event might take place before the end of January. No details […]

These neighboring countries’ fates couldn’t be more different: Pakistan is descending into instability, abject poverty, and isolation while India is rising as a beacon of stability in the hemisphere, continues lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and is the center of global attention. The most geostrategically consequential outcome of the last G20 Summit was the “Memorandum of […]

Issue 425 of the Islamic State’s (ISIS) weekly Al-Naba’, published[1] on January 12, 2024, contained a one-page article detailing the group’s operations against Christian civilians in Mozambique over the past two weeks. According to the article, ISIS operatives killed 10 Christians and burned over 200 houses in eight operations centered on Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province. All the operations were […]

While the TTP has been conducting terror attacks for a long time in Pakistan, the year 2021 was significant. In mid-August that year, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban) came to power after a two-decade jihad against the United States and NATO forces in Afghanistan. After August 2021, TTP attacks in Pakistan rose sharply. In June […]

Interview with Hai Phong Haifog: I’m glad to have you here because there’s a lot of economic novelties. But your specialty is to highlight, and this channel is trying to highlight, the relationship between geopolitics and the economy, such as Radhika [Desai, and Ben Norton, and other great journalists have tried to do so.The defeat in Ukraine Let us talk […]