HONG KONG: In one fell swoop, Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has forced a momentous change in thinking for Western leaders and strategists. Putin's willingness to go to war demonstrates how other authoritarian leaders - like Xi Jinping in China - could also act in ways the...
NEW DELHI: On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW), the United Nations in Afghanistan has called for concrete actions to end violence against women.
Gender-based violence continues to be a serious threat to women and girls and a major obstacle to achieving lasting sustainable development...
Hamayun Khan
With the Taliban returning to power, the volume of Afghanistan's trade with Pakistan has surged, with Kabul exporting less and importing more. On the other hand, the volume of Afghanistan's trade with India has decreased, resulting in a sharp decline in exports to India, which include mostly dried...
Col. Anil Bhat (Retd)
Terrorism exported by Pakistan’s military to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) did not end with the abrogation of Article 370 - which had given limited autonomy to the then state - of the Indian constitution by the Modi government on August 5, 2019. But the decisive step...
Pradeep S. Mehta
The US is getting back its mojo after President Joe Biden’s recent Europe trip. At the G-7 summit in UK’s Cornwall, Biden proudly declared that “America is back at the table”. It will also serve as a warning to the ambitious Chinese Communist Party that things will...
Dr Amjad Ayub Mirza
The President of the United Nation General Assembly, Volkan Bozkir, has said that Pakistan needs to ‘work harder to raise the issue (of Kashmir) internationally, specifically to bring it to the United Nations platform more forcefully.
The statement was issued on his arrival in Islamabad on May...
Harsh Mahaseth and Ananya Shukla
In recent years, the Kashmir area straddling India and Pakistan has seen nearly 2,000 violations of the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) between the two countries in 2003. These violations have the potential not only to spark a bilateral military, diplomatic, and political crisis but can also...
KOLKATA: Though the BJP has increased its tally in the West Bengal Assembly from three in 2016 to 77 in 2021 - a substantial increase of 74 seats, but down from 121, as indicated by the 2019 Lok Sabha election results.
The BJP's success in the last Lok Sabha elections...
Asad Mirza
The recent announcement by the White House sources that US President Joe Biden has proposed that he and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin hold a summit in a third country in the coming months, has increased hopes of a rapprochement between the two old rivals.
This personal invitation was...
Dr. Indu Saxena
India and Bangladesh's "360-degree partnership" could be a potent power diplomacy to change the South Asian security dynamics with economic boost by cornering the extremists and expansionists in the region. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Bangladesh on March 26-27 is a key pillar in India's...