Opinion

On July 13, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will formally launch India's campaign in New York for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the 2028-29 term. It is, on paper, a...

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...

"Peace is not merely the absence of violence, but the presence of justice." — Martin Luther King Jr. More than three years after ethnic violence engulfed Manipur in May 2023, the state remains politically fragile,...

The death knell for the idea of Pakistan may be sounded not from areas outside its borders, but from the occupied part of Jammu and Kashmir and Balochistan - a reality that now appears...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visits to Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand are best understood not as three separate bilateral engagements but as a carefully sequenced strategic mission across the Indo-Pacific. Coming immediately after the...

Indonesia’s Signal to the World: In international affairs, seemingly technical decisions often carry profound strategic significance. Indonesia's decision to build its own sovereign digital ecosystem inspired by India's Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), while integrating...

Since the early Cold War, the United States has maintained a complex, often transactional relationship with Pakistan. Pakistan joined US-led alliances like SEATO and CENTO in the 1950s, providing bases and intelligence against Soviet...

The Pakistan Express Tribune published a column last week, mentioning that India and Pakistan had engaged in a Track 1.5 dialogue involving former diplomats, retired military officials and politicians. It was claimed that talks...

There is a certain type of strategic danger that emerges quietly—not through the mobilisation of armies or the issuance of diplomatic ultimatums, but through the gradual accumulation of engineering contracts, party-to-party memoranda and river-management...

every few months, a big and shiny number floats around in the news. People are being told that the space industry will soon be worth around two and a half trillion dollars ($2.5 trillion)....

The defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is no longer a binary rivalry between the United States and China. It has evolved into a far more intricate strategic triangle in which an increasingly...

As of July 1, 2026 Operation Sheruwali entered its 40th day, with security forces continuing an extensive search operation in the forested areas of Dorimal in the Gambir Mughlan area of the Manjakote sector...

For centuries, nations measured power through territory, military strength and economic resources. In the 20th century, oil became the strategic commodity that shaped geopolitics. In the 21st century, data has emerged as the new...