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Rashane Jude Pintoe

K. Rashane Jude Pintoe is a Fellow at the Global Peace Institute UK. An irregular warfare analyst, he specialises in the Islamic State Khurasan Province and writes on geopolitics, modern warfare, counterterrorism and global security. He holds an MSc in Security, Peacebuilding and Diplomacy in the UK.

    September 29, 2026
    Sri Lanka

    What Sri Lanka’s Easter Judgment Finally Reveals

    Sri Lanka’s September 22, 2026 Easter Sunday judgment marks a decisive legal reckoning with one of the country’s deadliest terrorist attacks, convicting 15 of 24 defendants after an extensive examination of thousands

    Geopolitics/Human Rights/Judiciary

    Exclusive: Inside Sri Lanka’s Easter Plot — Read the Full TAB Judgment

    The 22 September 2026 Trial-at-Bar judgment provides a detailed account of the alleged network behind Sri Lanka’s 2019 Easter Sunday attacks, tracing the prosecution’s case from ideological indoctrination and recruitment to weapons, explosives, logistical support and the coordinated suicide bombings

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    Bluffing Is Not Diplomacy

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    Sri Lanka has every right to speak forcefully on Palestine and international justice. But moral authority abroad cannot substitute for diplomatic precision at home.

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    The Pathfinder Foundation and the China Center for South Asian Studies (CCSAS) at Sichuan University launched the Colombo Maritime Dialogue 2026 Report at a

    Funeral as a Battlefield: How ISKP Is Poised to Exploit Iran’s Moment of Weakness

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    Columns/Geopolitics

    On 6 July 2026, as millions of black-clad mourners pour into the streets of Tehran to bid farewell to the Islamic Republic’s former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, they will not be looking

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    When the Rains Arrived, the State Was Already Underwater: Some Lessons of Cyclone Ditwah

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    Editor's Choice/Sri Lanka

    When the rains finally stopped, what remained was not just devastation but disbelief. Entire neighbourhoods had turned into brown, swirling lakes. Heartbreaking images and videos flow of families stood on the upper

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    The Great Gold Grab: Panic Under Tariffs

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    Columns/Geopolitics

    Gold is on fire. Not literally, of course, but judging by its price chart, you’d think it had been doused in gasoline and set ablaze. The price of gold has skyrocketed in

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    Syria’s Shifting Sands: The Global Repercussions of al-Julani’s Rise to Power

    December 23, 2024
    Columns/Geopolitics

    Syria has fallen, but not into the arms of liberation – it has tumbled headlong into the clenched fists of extremism. The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad by Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the jihadist

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    Defending the Flame: The Threat Landscape Surrounding the 2024 Paris Olympics

    July 24, 2024
    Columns

    The 2024 Paris Olympics, scheduled from 26 July to 11 August, promise to be a global carnival of athleticism and culture. Yet, this grand festival also casts long shadows as it draws

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    Wake up Call: ISKP likely to attack Indian and Jewish Targets

    July 1, 2024
    Columns

    The tentacles of terrorism have stroked the hearts of peace-loving people since time immemorial. The South Asian region alone has witnessed brutal chapters of terror and insurgency by multiple threat actors and

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    Dictator Biden’s Double Standard

    September 18, 2022
    United States

    As blood-red lighting stained the backdrop, the dark black sky rendered an eerie aura of despotism. Members of the military stood guard clutching their weapons in a show of power. Like a

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    War on Terror: 9/11 in Retrospect

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    United States

    As the hands of the great chronograph of time strike to symbolise twenty-one years since that day of sheer terror in downtown New York, the world reflects upon the new type of

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    The Legacy of Gorbachev: International Peacemaker or National Resentment?

    September 5, 2022
    Diplomacy/Russia

    Another influential figure passes from the genus of the living and into the memories of the lost. As the month of August completed its timely lapse, the final leader of the Soviet

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    Hunting Down al-Zawahiri – A Step towards Peace or a Move towards War?

    August 29, 2022
    Defence

    As two raging hellfire missiles fired from a US military drone slammed into the balcony of a compound in Kabul, the world grew less dark – another terrorist was slain. The death

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    Future of Islamist Terrorism in South Asia

    August 24, 2022
    Defence/Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

    Time turns a page to mark a year since the re-emergence of the Taliban in Afghanistan through the colossal failure of the Biden administration’s botched military withdrawal. The threat that the Taliban

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