Why Chinese Thinkers Underestimate the Costs of Complicity in Russia’s Aggression In the weeks following Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the Chinese government struck a tone of cautious support for Moscow. Spokespeople for the Chinese government repeatedly stressed that Russia had the right to conduct its affairs as it saw fit, alleged that the word “invasion” was a Western […]

Since the withdrawal of US and NATO forces from Afghanistan, there has been a 60 per cent increase in terrorism in Pakistan. Following this withdrawal, the ideological kins of the Afghan Taliban, who had fought alongside the United States, redirected their hostility towards Pakistan. Once allies in counter-terrorism efforts, the U.S. policy regarding security assistance to Pakistan now remains nebulous. […]

According to a report by the Russian TASS news agency, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, recently re-elected, made an official visit to Russia in July. This visit marked a departure from the tradition of newly elected leaders first visiting neighboring countries, indicating India’s focus on its relationship with Russia and its commitment to “strategic autonomy”. Raj Kumar Sharma, a senior […]

The contrast couldn’t be more telling. While the people of J&K ushered 2024 with the good news that students of Army Goodwill School in Wuzur, Anantnag had won two gold medals in the prestigious all-India innovative projects development competition, those living across the Line of Control [LoC] were out on the streets in the bitter cold, protesting against the pathetic […]

Anger is arsonist. Below its grip, there is a tendency to provoke a reaction from the adversary, which will serve as fuel to fan the flames, thereby increasing the legitimacy of the angry hell. The method is convenient for practising accusatory reversal and making the one who reacts to aggression the instigator of hell. Today, Washington is angry. The object […]

The need is for measured steps to rescue Indo-Bangla relations from the nadir it has touched, not once but twice in the last 49 years. India’s relationship with Bangladesh touched the nadir this month when its trusted friend in Dhaka, Sheikh Hasina, quit the Prime Ministership and fled to India unable to face the wrath of her people who were […]

The successful 1979 Iranian working-class struggle against the monarchical dictatorship was eventually snatched away from people and hijacked by reactionary religious forces, with the covert support of imperialist and colonial powers led by the CIA. The progressive character of the Iranian people’s struggle for freedom and justice gradually faded, giving way to the rise of reactionary ruling elites who concealed […]

August 26 of this year marks the 18th anniversary of Pakistan’s assassination of Nawab Akbar Bugti – who was neither a terrorist, nor a jihadi commander, nor a secessionist rebel, but a former defense minister of Pakistan, a former chief minister of the country’s largest province of Baluchistan elected by its people, a former governor of the province who stood […]

The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending in August 2021, created favorable conditions for Russia to reassert itself as a regional hegemon in broader Central Asia. Historically, as great powers retrench from a territory, the resulting void can be filled either by rival powers or by friendly successor states responsive to the retrenching power’s agenda. While the United States has lacked […]

“The Commission finds that DoD’s business practices, byzantine research and development and procurement systems, reliance on decades-old military hardware, and culture of risk avoidance reflect an era of uncontested military dominance… Such methods are not suited to today’s strategic environment…. The U.S. public are largely unaware of the dangers the United States faces or the costs (financial and otherwise) required […]