The United States has led the international economic order for the last seventy-eight years, with only the Soviet Union posing a serious challenge. However, China is starting to pose a severe threat to the United States by trying to replace the US dollar as the world reserve currency. According to the International Monetary Fund, the Chinese yuan is the third-largest […]

If Foreign Minister Abdollahian can at least convince his hosts to seriously explore creating a joint security mechanism as the first step towards restoring mutual trust with a view towards eventually benefiting from the North-South Transport Corridor, then his trip could help alleviate the broader regional security dilemma. Pakistan announced on Monday that Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian will […]

India’s entry into the ranks of the world’s surviving theocracies — Iran, Afghanistan, the Vatican City — arrived bathetically. When the history of the nation’s descent from secularism to Hindu nationalism is written, it might end in Ayodhya. Just after noon yesterday, the Ram Temple was consecrated, a stone’s throw from the ruins of Babur’s Mosque, which was demolished three […]

Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan are preparing for a meeting on Afghanistan, which could take place by the end of this month, Russia’s presidential envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, told TASS. “The meeting is being prepared. It will take place,” he said. Kabulov remarked, “there is hope” that the event might take place before the end of January. No details […]

These neighboring countries’ fates couldn’t be more different: Pakistan is descending into instability, abject poverty, and isolation while India is rising as a beacon of stability in the hemisphere, continues lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and is the center of global attention. The most geostrategically consequential outcome of the last G20 Summit was the “Memorandum of […]

Issue 425 of the Islamic State’s (ISIS) weekly Al-Naba’, published[1] on January 12, 2024, contained a one-page article detailing the group’s operations against Christian civilians in Mozambique over the past two weeks. According to the article, ISIS operatives killed 10 Christians and burned over 200 houses in eight operations centered on Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province. All the operations were […]

While the TTP has been conducting terror attacks for a long time in Pakistan, the year 2021 was significant. In mid-August that year, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban) came to power after a two-decade jihad against the United States and NATO forces in Afghanistan. After August 2021, TTP attacks in Pakistan rose sharply. In June […]

Interview with Hai Phong Haifog: I’m glad to have you here because there’s a lot of economic novelties. But your specialty is to highlight, and this channel is trying to highlight, the relationship between geopolitics and the economy, such as Radhika [Desai, and Ben Norton, and other great journalists have tried to do so.The defeat in Ukraine Let us talk […]

Pakistan, as one of the large countries that emerged after the collapse of British India, inherited complex relations in both cross-border and transnational politics. The geopolitical situation associated with the intervention of the Anglo-Saxon line in the region only complicated these relations. Meanwhile, Pakistan, as a region located at the junction of South and Central Asia, is very relevant for […]

In an article in the respected British journal, The Economist Pakistan’s ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed doubt about the fairness of the forthcoming General Elections scheduled to be held in January 2024. In his words, Imran Khan is now in jail on charges of exposing state secrets by reading out in the Pakistan National Assembly a secret telegram […]