Bangladeshi Major General (retired) A.L.M. Fazlur Rahman, who serves as chair of the National Independent Commission of Inquiry investigating the 2009 Bangladesh Rifles massacre, posted on Facebook that Bangladesh should occupy India’s Northeastern States if India goes to war with Pakistan. He later explained that preparing for this scenario might deter India, which could in turn prevent Pakistan’s possible defeat, […]

At Semicon India 2025, the India Semiconductor Mission’s (ISM) annual flagship conference, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the first “made-in-India” chip, the Vikram 32 microprocessor. The chip was jointly developed by the Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) at Mohali, in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for use in the operation of space launch vehicles. Amid uncertainty about whether this […]

Réunis à l’occasion du sommet de l’APEC en Corée du Sud, les présidents chinois et sud-coréens se sont rencontrés pour la première fois. À cette occasion, ce dernier a sollicité l’appui de son voisin chinois pour renouer le dialogue avec la Corée du Nord. Le président chinois Xi Jinping a déclaré samedi que la Chine était prête à travailler avec […]

Pékin construit un système où les ressources sont gérées comme des armes – avec précision, délibérément, sans chichis. C’est le contrôle du mécanisme d’accès. Les terres rares passent du statut de marchandise à celui de monnaie de confiance. Le métal qui fait trembler la Silicon Valley La Chine contrôle plus de 80% de l’extraction et de la transformation mondiales des […]

Whether we are talking about the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, the Al-Tanf base in Syria or the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, they all share one undeniable quality: immense strategic importance in shaping today’s world order. Not long ago, US President Donald Trump publicly announced that it was time for the United States to take Bagram back. […]

Nearly two weeks after the Doha truce and three busy days of negotiations in Istanbul, the government of Pakistan and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan have failed to conclusively resolve their differences. The failure of negotiations at a moment when South Asia has entered a new normal of violating the sovereignty of neighboring states signifies the growing strategic instability in […]

Islamabad (TDI): Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar said early Wednesday that the latest round of talks between Islamabad and Kabul in Istanbul had failed to produce a workable solution. He added that Pakistan would continue to take every necessary measure to protect its citizens from terrorism. The discussions followed days of fighting along the Pakistan–Afghanistan border and […]

As President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping prepared for their Thursday meeting in South Korea, trade talks between Washington and Beijing had fallen into a familiar pattern. Trump’s tariff threats pushed China to the negotiating table; Beijing countered with trade restrictions on critical minerals; Washington raised tariffs again, and on and on. It seemed like a tit-for-tat cycle […]

Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is quietly staging a comeback in Bangladesh, leveraging shifting political winds, porous borders, and radical networks to reassert its strategic footprint in India’s eastern flank. Recent developments point to a resurgence of ISI-linked activities aimed at destabilising both Bangladesh and India, under the cover of growing “defence cooperation” between Dhaka and Islamabad.

The rise of Islamist extremism in South Asia is entering a new and troubling phase. Their real goal, however, is far darker than banning a Hindu organization: it is to purge majority-Muslim Bangladesh of its remaining Hindu population and to reshape the country into a theocratic state. In a disturbing development, the government’s response to a court petition demanding a […]