Pakistan’s neutrality in the US-Israel War against Iran highlights its rise as a middle power, leveraging diplomacy, mediation, and multi-vector foreign policy to shape regional stability in a changing global order.
Analyze how the perception of Iran as a regional menace is a strategically constructed narrative by the US and Israel. Explore the impact of the US security architecture in the Gulf, the collapse of the JCPOA nuclear framework, and how these policies foster enduring instability and militarization in the Middle East.
Read Saba Ghulam Nabi’s review of Muhammad Yousaf Malik’s book, Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Kashmir. The book details the Kashmir conflict and human rights violations through the lens of international law.
A hard-hitting analysis of how the idea of the Ummah is weaponized in geopolitics, and why Pakistan continues to bear the human, economic, and strategic costs of conflicts that are not its own.
![A view of Islamabad, as evolving regional dynamics reshape Pakistan’s security environment. [Image via Wikimedia].](https://southasiatimes.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Islamabad_top_view.webp "A view of Islamabad, as evolving regional dynamics reshape Pakistan’s security environment. [Image via Wikimedia].")
A single day revealed how strategic signaling, media narratives, and ideological currents are beginning to overlap in ways that complicate Pakistan’s security calculus.
Analyze PM Modi’s diplomatic reset and growing relationship with Israel. Explore India’s expanding defense and trade ties with Tel Aviv, its continued support for the two-state solution, and its strategic hedging to balance its relationship across West Asia
Explore how the 2025 Saudi-Pakistan Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement (SMDA) signals a return to “organized ambiguity” in the Gulf, challenging India’s diplomatic assumptions and reshaping South Asian geopolitics.
Netanyahu’s press conference merged military triumphs with religious rhetoric, signaling a dangerous escalation across the Middle East.
Explore how classical and structural realism explain the Iran-Israel rivalry. Discover how the pursuit of power and the “security dilemma” shape the volatile Middle East.
![US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, amid heightened regional tensions following the Iran crisis. [Image via AFP].](https://southasiatimes.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/image-3-3-scaled-1.webp "US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, amid heightened regional tensions following the Iran crisis. [Image via AFP].")
The 2026 Iran crisis reveals deeper geopolitical ambitions behind US escalation and its impact on Middle Eastern power dynamics.