Nepal’s geographical and topographical attributes have endowed it with a newfound significance in the foreign policy realm, where nations strategically pursue power and influence. This significance is particularly pronounced in hydropower development, where the confluence of ambitions between China and India has transformed Nepal into a focal point of their intricate power play. Regarding geography and geopolitics, Nepal occupies a […]

Robust growth in 2nd quarter GDP of 2023-24 (July -September) re-stablished that India is resilient to global sanctions, projecting its strong economic fundamentals. India pinned continuous growth in GDP in all quarters since January 2023, despite global sanctions imposed on Russia in December 2022. However, the noteworthy feature of 2nd quarter growth growth was that a new era of structural […]

From India’s perspective, these anti-state forces have exploited Western liberalism to live cozy lives and fund their separatist activities back home through illegal activity, all the while the host governments fail to crack down on their interconnected domestic-international crimes due to “political correctness”. Reuters’ recent report about how “India PM Modi’s Sikh Separatist Fight Driven by Security, Politics” completely misses […]

His rhetoric should be interpreted as a hollow attempt to divert the Indian public’s attention from his country’s latest charges against one of its officials. American Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti declared on Wednesday while visiting a World War II museum in Arunachal Pradesh that “Today how can we not but step up to be a great friend to India, […]

Without realizing it, Sharma convincingly made the argument that modern-day America is as much of a rogue state as pre-9/11 Afghanistan was, which is a damning observation for everyone to dwell upon. Bloomberg’s Mihir Sharma published a piece on Monday about how “India’s Denials on Sikh Separatist Plots Are Sounding Hollow”. After strongly implying that there’s credence to Canada’s claim […]

What is special about China-Pakistan maritime exercises in the Northern Arabian Sea? Not much, one might plausibly argue. The two countries regularly perform naval drills in the Indian Ocean, with the Sea Guardian exercises now an annual feature. Normally, the exercises are held in waters close to Pakistan and rarely in ways that directly challenge Indian interests. Whatever the rhetoric […]

On November 25, 2023, Police arrested one active cadre of People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) on charges of extortion from Imphal West District. On November 22, 2023, two cadres of PREPAK-Progressive (PREPAK-Pro), Laisram Prem and Khumukcham Biren, were arrested in possession of arms and ammunition at Pishum road under the Singjamei Police station in Imphal West District. Two Light […]

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Bannu Division: Rising Storm On November 22, 2023, a polio worker, Hassan Tawab, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in the Miranshah area of the North Waziristan District. Police said that Hassan was called out of his house and shot dead. On November 21, 2023, two soldiers were killed after an improvised explosive device (IED) hit a Security […]

The closure of the embassy that represented the Ashraf Ghani regime paves the way for engagement With the closure of the Afghan embassy in New Delhi that had represented the ousted Ashraf Ghani government, India is now giving “de facto” if not “de jure” recognition to the Taliban regime in Kabul, says Talmiz Ahmad, retired Indian Ambassador and expert on […]

The inevitable is finally, inexorably, happening as the government’s 9-year old strategy to isolate, demonise and brand Pakistan as a state sponsoring terrorism collapses in front of the global community. Pakistan just showed the middle finger at New Delhi by formally applying for BRICS membership. One would presume that Islamabad’s able diplomats did the necessary legwork and tested the waters […]