Ecuadorian Catholic priest Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari was killed when a heavy crucifix and a statue of Jesus Christ fell from the wall behind the altar during a livestreamed Mass at the
The UN’s human rights mechanisms are designed to hear from families, governments, NGOs and other stakeholders, not to certify the political legitimacy of those who approach them. That distinction matters in Balochistan,
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There is a particular cruelty in watching a militant group dress exploitation up as liberation. For two decades, the Baloch Liberation Army fought a low-intensity insurgency largely through men ambushes, attacks on
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Just months ago, Sri Lanka’s tourism industry was celebrating. In 2025, the island nation welcomed more than 2.36 million tourists its highest-ever annual total, up 15.1% year-on-year and surpassing the previous 2018
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For a nation still recovering from its 2022 economic collapse, Cyclone Ditwah was not just a weather event. It was a fiscal earthquake. When the cyclone made landfall on the eastern coast
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Two ports, three thousand kilometres apart, are quietly telling the same story about where the Indian Ocean is headed. One is Gwadar, on Pakistan’s Balochistan coast, built and operated with heavy Chinese
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China’s central bank has once again chosen calibration over shock therapy. Following the second-quarter meeting of its monetary policy committee, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said on July 8 it will
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When President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stood before Parliament in March and confirmed that Sri Lanka had twice turned away American warplanes seeking to land at Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport, the applause that
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South Asia is being remade, and Sri Lanka has a smaller margin for error in navigating it than its leaders sometimes admit. The past eighteen months have brought the region closer to
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When President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stood before parliament on 20 March and confirmed that his government had turned down two military requests in a single evening — one from Washington to land
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On May 24, three Bangladeshis died in landmine explosions near Naikhongchhari in Bandarban , farmers and residents killed by a war that is not theirs. Fishermen have been abducted on the Naf
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Islamabad has just set a new record. For the 2026-27 fiscal year, Pakistan’s defence allocation has crossed Rs 3 trillion for the first time, roughly $10.8 billion, and the single sharpest jump
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Three weeks ago, Donald Trump stood before cameras and called his truce with Iran an unconditional surrender. This week, at a NATO summit in Ankara, he declared that same truce dead, telling
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The recent ceasefire announcement and its immediate implementation have been widely viewed as an important diplomatic development for Pakistan. In a region where tensions can rise quickly and where mistrust often shapes
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It is no longer credible to treat Afghanistan’s terrorism problem as a purely internal Afghan matter. Since the Taliban returned to Kabul in August 2021, Afghanistan has increasingly functioned as a permissive
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