Opinion

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...

Two powerful earthquakes hit the northern coastal state of La Guairá in Venezuela a few hours before sunset on June 24, 2026. Caracas seismic centre recorded the first tremor of 7.2 magnitude on the...

On Thursday, 2nd July, India and Japan officially launched their very first joint defence project together. Both countries will now work side by side to build a special naval technology called the UNICORN mast....

After successfully organising the G-20, India set out some non-negotiables, emphasising that despite headwinds in the global order, there is an urgent and strong need for strategic partnerships and de-hyphenations to rise above narrow...