
Can BIMSTEC Replace SAARC? The Illusion of Exclusionary Integration
With SAARC paralyzed by India-Pakistan tensions, New Delhi turns to BIMSTEC, while Islamabad, backed by China, is trying to keep SAARC alive.

With SAARC paralyzed by India-Pakistan tensions, New Delhi turns to BIMSTEC, while Islamabad, backed by China, is trying to keep SAARC alive.

Qingdao 2025 brings India and Pakistan’s defense chiefs face-to-face after May’s clashes, a pivotal SCO moment that could shift the balance from tension to dialogue, or deepen divides in an evolving multipolar order.

India, often celebrated as a vibrant and colorful tourism hub, is facing a crisis that tarnishes its global image, a crisis that disproportionately affects women,

Four years after the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul, the world seems fatigued. Donor aid is drying up, media coverage has moved on, and

India’s recent announcement to suspend the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), followed by inflammatory remarks from senior ministers including Amit Shah’s conceited statement about never restoring

In an era defined by nuclear anxieties, great power recalibrations, and regional arms races, the global discourse on nonproliferation must be rooted in nuance, history,

Punjab’s push for solar-powered tube wells, though intended to boost agriculture, is accelerating groundwater depletion and posing serious risks to food security and public health.

At a time when the global order is increasingly defined by unpredictability and polarization, the meeting between Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, Field Marshal Syed

As Pakistan’s Army Chief General Asim Munir met former U.S. President Donald Trump at the height of the Iran-Israel crisis, a quiet but telling shift

India’s muted response to Israel’s preemptive military action against Iran in June 2025, and its recent decision to abstain from endorsing the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s