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Asad Mirza

-The writer is a New Delhi-based senior commentator on international and strategic affairs, environmental issues, an interfaith practitioner, and a media consultant. The views expressed are personal and do not necessarily carry the views of Raksha Anirveda

Bangladesh’s Indication to Join Makkah Pact, Cause of Concern for India

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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...

“US Territory” by Tweet: Trump’s Hormuz Fantasy Meets Iran’s Hard No

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Nearly six months into the US-Israel war on Iran, the Strait of Hormuz has become less a shipping lane than a rhetorical battlefield. This week that theatre reached a new pitch: Donald Trump posted...

India’s Ascent Story Continues

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Adecade ago, India was grouped among the "Fragile Five" emerging markets, battered by inflation and a weak rupee. That narrative has been rewritten. India's nominal GDP has roughly tripled from ₹106.57 lakh crore in...

At 80, India is Loved, Feared and Doubted – Often by the Same Neighbourhood

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Eighty years ago, on August 15, 1947, India woke up to a freedom it had to build almost from scratch - a fractured economy, a freshly drawn and bloody border, and a place in...

China’s Polar Silk Road: Why Being First Matters

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Every great trade route in history has rewarded whoever mapped, secured and normalised it first - Venice on the spice routes, Britain on Suez and the United States on the post-war Pacific. China now...

Makkah Pact to Reshape the Middle East

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On August 7, in the holy city of Makkah, three men who lead very different countries stood together and signed a document that many in the region had been quietly expecting, and dreading, for...

What The US-Saudi Nuclear Deal Means

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The latest US-Saudi Arabia nuclear agreement, formalised under Section 123 of the US Atomic Energy Act, gives American firms legal access to build out Saudi Arabia's civilian nuclear programme, alongside separate bilateral safeguards accord...

Nepal’s Second Gen-Z Reckoning

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Nepal is witnessing an uncomfortable rerun. Less than a year after a youth uprising burned down Singha Durbar and forced KP Sharma Oli from office, the generation that engineered that upheaval is back on...

How NATO Survived Its Bipolar Summit with Donald Trump

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When Donald Trump landed in Ankara this week for NATO's annual summit, the alliance's carefully choreographed script survived roughly as long as his motorcade took to reach the venue. What followed was, by multiple...

UK’s £300 Billion Defence Gamble, An Opportunity for India

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Aresignation two years in the making: Starmer's fall was less an event than a slow puncture. Labour's landslide 2024 victory gave way, within eighteen months, to collapsing approval ratings, a dismal set of local...

General Upendra Dwivedi Rewired the Indian Army for the Age of Autonomous War

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When General Upendra Dwivedi took over as the 30th Chief of the Army Staff on June 30, 2024, the Indian Army was an institution in transition - strong in tradition, capable in combat, yet...

The Precarious US-Iran Ceasefire

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When US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed the Islamabad Memorandum on June 17, 2026 - Trump at the Palace of Versailles following the G7 summit, Pezeshkian in Tehran - the...

Force Multiplier on the Frontline: Redefining the Military Engineer

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Featuring an authoritative foreword by former Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal NC Suri, the book moves past standard military historiography. It reframes the role of the military engineer not as a...
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