On January 31, 2025, the Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN-IM) asserted that, if Indians respect Naga history, the Nagas would reciprocate tenfold. Speaking at the NSCN-IM’s 46th Raising Day celebrations, ‘vice chairman’ Tongmeth Wangnao highlighted two key official recognitions of Naga sovereignty – first in 2002 at an Amsterdam meeting and later in the 2015 […]

On February 9, 2025, inflicting significant losses on the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), a joint team of Security Forces (SFs) comprising District Reserve Guard (DRG) and Special Task Force (STF) personnel, shot dead at least 31 Maoists in an encounter in a forest area between the Maddeda-Farsegarh border in the Indravati National Park area in the Bijapur District of […]

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in the US on February 12 and 13 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting the United States from February 12 to 13 at the invitation of US President Donald Trump. The visit is very important in as much as it has to address certain key issues which will define India’s place […]

Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s working visit to four countries in Europe and the World Economic Forum participation in January remains a mission to deepen the economic framework and a strategic initiative to strengthen the capacity for economic and diplomatic friendshoring, in boosting Malaysia’s fallback options. This effort aims to expand the nation’s economic interdependence and market networks, in […]

Russia’s grand geo-economic plans in this part of Eurasia are dependent on the resolution of these tensions, while China’s will continue being advanced regardless of whatever happens with them. Russian Ambassador to Pakistan Albert Khorev told TASS over the weekend that his country supports Pakistan and Afghanistan’s respective counter-terrorism efforts. He then added that it encourages both of them to […]

Data Cutoff: February 4, 2025 The China–Taiwan Weekly Update is a joint product from the Institute for the Study of War and the American Enterprise Institute. The update supports the ISW–AEI Coalition Defense of Taiwan project, which assesses Chinese campaigns against Taiwan, examines alternative strategies for the United States and its allies to deter the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) aggression, […]

The 2024 Bangladesh crisis has marked the re-defining of national identity in Bangladesh, a final break away from Mujibur’s legacy of the secular imagination of the Bangladeshi nation. Even as the Nobel laureate, Muhammad Yunus, leads the nation following Sheikh Hasina’s resignation and flight, Bangladesh’s interim government has moved to lift the ban on the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) party that had […]

Pakistan reported Thursday that one soldier and 12 insurgents were killed in intense predawn clashes in a volatile northwestern district bordering Afghanistan. A military statement said the deadly shootout in North Waziristan occurred after security forces conducted an “intelligence-based” raid against a “khawarij” hideout, a term officially used to describe militants affiliated with the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP. Insurgent […]

According to a report published by Tolo News, Suhail Shaheen, the ambassador of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban) in Doha, has praised Qatar’s “significant role” in expanding the Taliban’s relations with different countries. “The Islamic Emirate’s Embassy in Qatar is active, and the interim government of Afghanistan has been able to establish connections with various […]

OCCRP reported in 2023 on allegations that Shibli Rubayat ul Islam was involved in a scheme that defrauded a Hong Kong company out of $13 million. A court in Bangladesh denied bail on Thursday to the former head of the country’s capital markets regulator, who is accused of money laundering and receiving $361,000 in bribes. Police arrested Shibli Rubayat ul […]