The best-case scenario is that Russian aid helps the Tatmadaw win enough gains on the ground for anti-government armed groups to agree to a comprehensive Chinese-mediated peace deal which culminates in fair political reforms that ultimately neutralize pernicious Western influence that risks “Balkanizing” the country. This month marks three years since the latest phase of Myanmar’s (formerly Burma’s) civil war […]

Here’s how everything unfolded from the start of this summer’s initially peaceful student-led protests against the judiciary’s reimposition of a contentious government job quota system to the spree of urban terrorism that ultimately forced the country’s long-serving leader to flee for her life to India. Casual news consumers don’t know much about Bangladesh apart from it being a South Asian […]

Global Terror: Failure to Launch On August 22, 2024, the Delhi Police Special Cell uncovered a terrorist network linked to Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), arresting 11 suspects and detaining three others, in raids at 15 locations across three states, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh. Six suspects – Hasan Ansari, Enamul Ansari, Altaf Ansari, Arshad Khan, Umar Farooq, and […]

Meanwhile, Mirdef Alqashouti, the advisor of the Qatar Embassy in Kabul, said that he will work for the launch of direct flights between Kabul and Doha. Mawlawi Abdul Kabir, the political deputy prime minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), said on Sunday that Qatar has an important place in the foreign policy of the Islamic Emirate and that […]

Terror organization: Al Qaeda. Status: A key leader. Role: Hamza al-Ghamdi is a native of Saudi Arabia and a senior leader of the terrorist group Al Qaeda. Before September 11 terror attack, Al-Ghamdi was one of Usama bin Laden’s most trusted associates and head of bin Laden’s security detail. Al-Ghamdi fought invading Soviet troops alongside bin Laden in Afghanistan in […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Ukraine on August 23-24 has brought to light the dual-faced nature of India’s foreign policy. While the visit was presented as a show of support for Ukraine amidst its ongoing conflict with Russia, a closer examination reveals a strategy that is far more self-serving and deeply rooted in India’s long-standing ties with Russia. Modi’s […]

Less than two weeks after the May 9 protests in which military assets and facilities in Pakistan were targeted by incensed mobs, Pakistan army’s media wing Inter Services Public Relations [ISPR] issued a press release stating that army chief Gen Syed Asim Munir had said that “legal process of trial against planners, instigators, abettors and perpetrators involved in 9 May […]

In April 2022, less than a year after it took power in Kabul, the Taliban announced it would prohibit the cultivation, production, trafficking, trade and consumption of all narcotics in Afghanistan. At the time, many observers were skeptical of both the group’s sincerity, due to the revenues it had long generated from the drugs industry, and its ability to enforce […]

A greater proportion of Muslims migrate from India as compared to Hindus. Art 14 and other human rights institutions tell us why. Only 15% of India’s population is Muslim but 33% of all India-born migrants in the world are Muslims. About 80% of the people in India are Hindus, but Hindus are only 41% of emigrants from India, according to […]

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s visit to India is long overdue and timely, in elevating a new way forward of a strengthened Kuala Lumpur-New Delhi ties, which forms one of the most strategic and critical bilateral relationships in the region for both economic and geopolitical domains. Anwar’s three-day visit is also a chance to reset Malaysia’s relations with India, following […]