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Israel has learned few lessons from its campaign in Lebanon. War in Gaza has no strategic end.
An agreement to keep AI out of nuclear weapons control systems will be a solid step forward, even if months of discussions are needed to agree on how...
The seeds of war sowed by the ISI in 1973 have yielded a long, bitter harvest, which now threatens to overrun Pakistan itself.
India is testing a smart fence in Kashmir, using sensors from Magal that developed the systems in Gaza and US. But what does Israel experience tell us...
Elegantly written on yellow silk, sewn into the waistcoat of a new convert to Islam, Shaikh Abdul Haq, the words were to be carried across the Khyber...
There’s no reason to believe that any other kind of war in Gaza might have been more humane. The idea that war can be civilised by law has...
Islamist pop preachers like Tahir-ul-Qadri and Zakir Naik popularised this anti-science posture—largely relying on pseudoscientific arguments—and...
The Nithari killings is just the latest in a long series of high-profile cases that demand thorough reinvestigation to establish what went wrong.
Antisemitic incidents have quadrupled in the United Kingdom, and Germany has banned the pro-Hamas organisation Samidoun,
Hamas has battled Palestinian nationalism, allied itself with Israeli intelligence, and capitalised on regional geopolitics. It's skilled at not just...
There’s little doubt the tactically skilled IDF will succeed in crushing Hamas incursions in the next few days. Like the 1973 war, the crisis holds...
The Taliban were once pushed back into Afghanistan by the Army. For a time, the Generals congratulated themselves, imagining their Taliban clients...
From RAW assets convicted of espionage in Germany, to former naval officers facing trial for spying on Qatar, India’s efforts to expand its global...
For all the talk of cyber-espionage by China or Russia, the Five Eyes are the largest intelligence-gathering organisation in the world, with the...
In 1984, Parmar succeeded in turning his low-grade marketing campaign into a movement due to political missteps in Punjab, which empowered...
For centuries, dictators have used arbitrary terror, so no one knows for certain which actions might be punished, to what extent, and when.
There is no way of telling how the courts will deal with the issue, but the requirement of piety goes to the heart of Pakistan’s dysfunctions.
Hejaz railway to the new train race—will the G20 project be any different?
In a world where encrypted digital communications enable leaders to speak instantly and securely, there is no purpose for the summit except pageantry.
No amount of cash can buy a liberal culture where individuals respect each other. To imagine that billionaires can shape the course of history is pure...
Lacking even the meagre comfort of an after-dinner cognac to calm their nerves, the assembled billionaires listened silently as their guest’s rage...
Throughout Putin's political career, dozens of powerful rivals have died—in circumstances far too opaque for Russian authorities to even trouble...
Even though the new laws have generated criticism, analysis suggests much of their content is similar to the colonial-era legislation they replace.
Saudi Arabia will now need to form alliances with Iran, China, and the US. And for that the country will need to do more than just sell oil.
The lowering of aggressive polemic in both Beijing and New Delhi shows politicians in both countries realise that the crisis of the Gates of Hell...
To some, the MC Saxena report is evidence that Muslims were responsible for the riot—but that isn’t the full story. It casts new light on the...
Even though Pakistan’s PMs keep ending up in prison cells, Imran Khan has shown that civilian leaders aren’t giving up fighting for control of the...
This story warns us that the incendiary politics that led to Gurugram—an icon of India’s economic ambitions—could easily set off larger fires.
From the time of before Aurangzeb and EIC to the Dogras and now. Shias have been sidelined and systematically targeted. This procession is a step...
As India intended to end the Nagaland insurgency forever 8 years ago, it announced the construction of a statue and memorial to Gaidinliu—the...
Fifteen years ago, the man now alleged to have indoctrinated 5 Karnataka jihadists, Kannur-born Tadiyantavide Naseer, had recruited the Kerala men to...
The Generals know Pakistan’s political parties are important, or they wouldn’t spend so much time attempting to control their leadership and...
Few places in India have seen a sustained women’s movement of the kind seen in Manipur—but the grinding ethnic war tearing the state apart has...
The Organisation of the Islamic Conference have periodically lobbied for blasphemy to be made a global offence. But they have been soft on violations...
‘No day goes’, the chronicler Shihabuddin al-Umari recorded during Alauddin Khalji’s rule from 1296-1316, ‘without the sale of thousands of...
Killings of Khalistanis in recent weeks raise the obvious questions about possible Indian state involvement.
Faced with escalating ethnic violence in Manipur—and a stalled peace process in Nagaland—New Delhi faces impossible choices.
Putin’s failures in Ukraine — material shortage, incompetent leadership, deserting soldiers — are the same as the tsar during World War I. The...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan’s Generals can’t risk opening a fourth front. Their surrender to the Tehreek-e-Labbaik last week...
Learning all the wrong lessons from the British empire, independent India chose to rule the northeast through cash and coercion.
There’s no will in Pakistan to engage in the fraught debate that the Quran has 'no notion of blasphemy'. The blasphemy laws show that real power...
The inability of Indians to have a conversation about the past—the bombing of Air India, 1984 riots, storming of the Golden Temple—has poisoned...
The chokehold of the Pakistani military on ideas has created a republic of fear. For Indians, the crisis ought to remind just how fragile democratic...
For all the talk of jihad-without-end over Kashmir, leaders of Pakistan knew the country needed to reduce military expenditures. That meant seeking...
Finding resolutions to identity conflict needs genuine democratic institution building, which will allow communities to meaningfully exercise power...
Like their colonial-era ancestors, smugglers are the economic backbone of impoverished communities in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Five nation-states' absence from the meeting might not seem a lot. But with China supporting it, Pakistan may resume nurturing jihadists, even risk...
The real story of the Mumbai attack remains how terrorists—and a national state which backed them—got away with mass killing.