Editorial Is Bibi going to lose miserably? It is too early to predict, but something unusual is happening in Israel. Voters are turning out in numbers not seen for decades, making this
Asia-Pacific leaders concluded the annual APEC summit in South Korea on Saturday with a joint declaration emphasizing the need for resilient and mutually beneficial trade, amid mounting fractures in the global trading
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On October 29, 2025, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, Mary Lawlor, expressed concern over the inclusion of several Baloch activists on Pakistan’s terrorist Watchlist under Section 11-EE
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As a professor who has spent more than forty years studying questions of war and peace, international law and relations —and above all, the human consequences of armed conflict— I once believed
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Editor’s Note: The following article is based on excerpts adapted from an interview with Professor Jiang Xueqin conducted by Cyrus Janssen. “I see geopolitics as a game among different players,” Professor Jiang
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For decades I have been watching American democracy unravel as it became increasingly dysfunctional. US democracy murdered President John F. Kennedy and followed up by murdering his brother, Robert F. Kennedy. Then President
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In diplomacy, most declarations fade with the ink that seals them. Yet the Joint Declaration in Türkiye stands apart—a moment when Pakistan transitioned from quiet endurance to principled assertion. Under the mediation
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China’s President Xi Jinping and Japan’s newly appointed Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi met on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Gyeongju on Friday, holding their first formal discussions as leaders amid
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Sri Lanka and the Maldives are moving forward with plans to establish a dedicated commercial ferry service, aimed at reducing transport costs and facilitating the export of
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by Our Economic Affairs Editor When Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Western governments unleashed a barrage of unprecedented sanctions aimed at strangling Moscow’s war economy. From semiconductor exports to banking
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The promise of justice that once defined Bangladesh’s post-independence identity has turned into its most bitter irony. In 1971, the country’s founders imagined a republic built upon freedom, equality, and human rights.
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Editor’s Note: The following column is based on excerpts from a speech delivered by Semih Lütfü Turgut, Ambassador of the Republic of Türkiye to Sri Lanka, on the occasion of the National
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India says Indus water will be held back, stored, redirected, weaponized. They says “blood and water cannot flow together” a slogan first sharpened in 2016 and repeated again in 2025 by Prime
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The incident is laden with irony. The United States — a nation built on the fundamental tenets of free trade, well-entrenched with a fairly level playing field — now appears to be
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by Our Correspondent in Seoul Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump began a high-stakes summit in Busan, South Korea, on Thursday, as investors and global observers looked for signs
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Talks between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Istanbul (October 25-28), mediated by Qatar and Turkey, collapsed amidst strident rhetoric. Pakistan issued a 72-hour ultimatum “for Taliban to summon TTP Shura or we act unilaterally.” Taliban
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