Alright, when most folks think about Pakistan and its fight against terrorism, that one big event – Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad – usually comes to mind, right? And no doubt, that moment put Pakistan under a huge global microscope. But here’s the thing: if that’s all we focus on, we’re missing a much bigger, more tangled story of how […]

On May 10, India and Pakistan agreed to a US-mediated ceasefire following the Pahalgam terror attack in India and consequent military escalation from both sides. India’s Operation Sindoor, a retaliatory measure against cross-border terror groups following the terror attack, indicates the swiftly altered nature of New Delhi’s response: a nuanced, calibrated, and multi-dimensional punitive response to the state-sponsored terrorism. The […]

On May 10, 2025, the Special Task Force (STF) arrested an operative of the transborder Islamist group, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), identified as Abbas Uddin Mollah, from Pathra village in the Diamond Harbour of South 24-Parganas District in West Bengal. On May 9, 2025, the STF arrested two JMB operatives, Ajmol Hossain (28) and Saheb Ali Khan (28), from Birbhum District, […]

On 7 May 2025, exercising its “right to respond”, Indian armed forces launched Operation Sindoor, under which they carried out precision strikes to destroy a network of terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir. [1] The operation was undertaken in the wake of a terror attack in Pahalgam in which 26 tourists were murdered in cold blood. Defence Minister Rajnath […]

While references to a “ceasefire” between India and Pakistan have emerged, India has not officially declared the end of Operation Sindoor. Military activity has merely been paused, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasizing that India maintains the prerogative to respond further if necessary. Meanwhile, Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has expressed support for the de-escalation and reaffirmed Sri Lanka’s […]

The ceasefire declared on May 10, 2025, between India and Pakistan represents a momentous yet tenuous lull in a protracted and volatile bilateral conflict that has defined South Asian geopolitics for decades. Orchestrated largely through behind-the-scenes diplomatic efforts by the United States, Russia, and many more states this fragile accord emerges in the aftermath of a grave provocation: a devastating […]

Escape forward For decades, the performance of Germany’s economy—Europe’s largest—has been fuelled by selling goods to China. This export-orientated approach was essential to the German industrial-led economic model. But those times are over and Berlin now faces a dilemma. The world has been hit by two “China shocks” since the turn of the millennium. The first followed China’s accession to […]

Operation Sindoor marked a bold and meticulously executed military response by India to one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in recent years. Carried out between the night of May 6 and the early hours of May 10, 2025, the operation was launched in retaliation for the brutal massacre in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, on April 22. In that incident, heavily […]

China, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Myanmar, has historically been a home for various insurgent factions advocating for autonomy or secession over many decades. In 2015, India expressed growing apprehension regarding escalating violence in the Northeast, particularly after the unsuccessful attempt to renew a ceasefire with the Khaplang faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-K), predominantly based in Myanmar. On […]