Opinion

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...

more than a year after the guns fell silent following Operation Sindoor, India and Pakistan are apparently talking again. London, Muscat, Bangkok, Doha, and now reportedly Colombo, a quiet circuit of Track 1.5 and...

The concept of a war economy typically evokes images of total mobilisation during World War II, when the US converted civilian industry to produce armaments on a massive scale. In the contemporary era, however,...

When NSA Ajit Doval invoked "zero tolerance" for terrorism at the 16th BRICS National Security Advisers' Meeting in New Delhi, the phrase landed with the cadence of doctrine rather than diplomacy. India has been...