Asad Mirza

For military planners, the most dangerous gap is often not a lack of information but the time required to turn information into understanding. A satellite may capture an image of a border crossing, a...

Trump’s latest warnings mark a sharp escalation in language during a conflict already stretching across the Middle East. In an interview with Fox News, he reportedly described himself as being in “deciding mode,” weighing...

The United States has moved closer to turning its Russia policy into a broad instrument of economic coercion. The US House of Representatives has approved the “Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act...

India’s most important achievement at BRICS 2026 was not a single agreement but the creation of diplomatic space among adversaries. New Delhi hosted Russia, China, Iran, the UAE and other major developing powers at...

Friday, September 11, was technically the “pre-summit” day of BRICS 2026 - the leaders’ sessions proper begin Saturday - but it did more to set the tone of this year's gathering than any single...

New Delhi is hosting the 18th BRICS Summit at a combustible moment - Xi Jinping’s first India visit in seven years, Putin’s fresh arrival, a Congress spat over BRICS’s worth, and an unresolved Iran...

The Makkah Pact’s early significance lies less in the institutions it has already created than in the strategic questions it has raised. Is it a collective-defence arrangement, a platform for regional crisis management, an...

India’s emerging space companies took centre stage at Bengaluru Space Expo (BSX) 2026, presenting technologies aimed at improving satellite imaging, secure communications, Earth observation and access to space. The event brought together startups, established...

Bengaluru Space Expo 2026 placed India’s rapidly expanding private space sector at the centre of a broad international conversation, bringing together governments, space agencies, manufacturers, startups, investors and research institutions. The event’s central message was...

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) was founded in 2001, evolving out of the "Shanghai Five" security dialogue among China, Russia and three Central Asian states formed after the Soviet collapse. The SCO gives India...

In late August 2026, China's J-16s dogfought Egyptian Rafales in a first-of-its-kind exercise, Russia revived its Su-57 pitch to India even as New Delhi signalled the deal was dead, and Turkish and Chinese transport...

On August 20, 2026, India and Japan signed their first-ever defence-only joint statement and a landmark maritime security pact. It's not just paperwork - it's a signal that two of Asia's biggest democracies are...

Words matter in diplomacy, and Bangladesh's foreign affairs adviser Humayun Kabir chose his carefully. Asked whether Dhaka would join the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement - the pact Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed on...