Infrastructure that carries a nation’s data, finance and emergency communications is strategic infrastructure. We would not hand over a port, a power grid or a strategic petroleum reserve on the strength of
Pakistan is about to witness a transformative moment in its football history with the launch of its first-ever International Football Training Camp in Quetta. Set to take place from January 26 to
More
Bangladesh today languishes beneath a medieval pall, a republic dimmed by regression after more than sixteen months of rule under the Yunus interregnum, installed by the American deep state for its geopolitical
More
Nearly three years after ethnic violence tore through Manipur, the death of a young Kuki-Zo woman named Grace has come to symbolise a conflict that never truly ended. Her passing on January
More
On the islands dotting the Krishna river in Telangana, there are no roads, no phone networks, and no easy way out. It was in these isolated fishing camps that Erukala Raju, a
More
For more than four decades, the flatlands west of Zaragoza have lived by the rhythm of car production. Now, the same territory that once welcomed General Motors as a symbol of American
More
In early January, several currency trackers briefly displayed the Iranian rial’s value as “$0.00,” unable to process the speed and scale of the depreciation, making it unexchangeable on important international trading platforms. The fallout
More
Xi Jinping has spent three years gutting his own military leadership. Five of the seven members of the Central Military Commission – China’s supreme military authority – have been purged since 2023,
More
Even invoking international law has become awkward. Institutions look increasingly irrelevant as political and economic processes unfold demonstrably outside them. This reaction is understandable. The latest targets of actions that violate the
More
By Farwa Imtiaz Growing up in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), I learned early that politics was more than just a headline, it was a reality that shaped everyday life. In 2025, public opinion
More
Khaled Abu Jarrar, a 58-year-old Palestinian from Beit Hanoon, now shelters in Gaza City’s former Legislative Council building—one of thousands of structures repurposed as displacement camps after Israel’s genocidal assault reduced entire
More
Western Power and the Persistence of Colonial Structures There are moments in global politics when the mask slips—not because power suddenly discovers morality, but because maintaining the performance becomes too expensive. Recently
More
California Governor Gavin Newsom has spent 2025 setting himself up as Donald Trump’s leading opponent and the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential nominee. While the Trump-Newsom rivalry has captivated some voters to pick sides,
More
Imperial deceit now stands starkly exposed in Bangladesh: the calculated rehabilitation of the executioners of 1971, ushered back toward power with chilling audacity. There is an irony so stark, so unembarrassed, that
More
The Dalai Lama’s unfulfilled wish to visit Sri Lanka lays bare how Beijing’s shadow constrains smaller Asian nations from making sovereign foreign policy choices. At 90, Tenzin Gyatso—the 14th Dalai Lama and
More
On 25 January 2026, the Government of Bangladesh issued the July Mass Uprising (Protection and Determination of Liability) Ordinance, 2026, a presidential decree that grants sweeping immunity to all participants in the July 2024
More