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Islamabad's defiance may complicate Trump's Abraham Accords ambitions: Difficult Strategic Choices for South Asian Nations and Muslim World

New Delhi, May 29 -- South Asia may soon become the next major battleground in President Donald Trump's campaign to expand the Abraham Accords and normalize relations between Muslim-majority nations a... Read More


Amid Geopolitical Realignment, Russia's Outreach to Islamic World: Putin Underscores Importance of Islam in Russian Society

New Delhi, May 28 -- Russian Federation's prosperous Muslim majority Republic of Tatarstan - rich in oil with advanced industry - has become Moscow's pivot to the Islamic world as Western Europe throu... Read More


Aurat March is About Women's Identity: Movement for Gender Justice in Pakistan and Across the Region

New Delhi, May 28 -- For the organisers of the annual women's rights demonstration known as Aurat (Women) March, it had been a stressful few days leading up to the event, held this year to coincide wi... Read More


The Reality Behind Putin-Xi Ties: A No-Limits Relationship has its Limits

New Delhi, May 28 -- The Putin-Xi meeting in Beijing, held against the backdrop of Donald Trump's recent China visit, was carefully choreographed geopolitical theatre. It sought to convey that China c... Read More


Rubio's India Visit: Convergence of Strategic Interests and Shared Concerns over China

New Delhi, May 27 -- The four-day visit of U.S. Secretary of State (also officiating NSA) Marco Rubio was significant in many ways. Apart from participating in the QUAD Foreign Ministers' meeting, Rub... Read More


Two May Deaths That Left Deep Political Imprint on India and Sri Lanka

New Delhi, May 26 -- Two commemorations of death anniversaries took place in India and Sri Lanka in the third week of May 2026 - one of a political leader and prime minister and the other of a militan... Read More


Anti-Taliban Front Growing: Former Afghan National Army Soldiers Mount Armed Resistance to Repressive Rule

New Delhi, May 26 -- In the evening of May 24, 2026, an assault on Taliban logistics vehicles was launched in the Surobi district of capital Kabul. One Taliban fighter died, and three sustained injuri... Read More


China's Soft Power Test in South Asia: It has Growing Influence and Dependency, but can it Build Trust?

New Delhi, May 25 -- China's rise is no longer measured only by the size of its economy, army, or exports. It is also measured by roads, ports, bridges, power plants, scholarships, digital platforms, ... Read More


India's Gen Z Cockroach Revolt: Ignoring Youthspeak can be at Democracy's Own Peril

New Delhi, May 25 -- When Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Oslo recently, it was not an Indian reporter who put him on the spot. It was a Norwegian journalist. The question itself was direct and u... Read More


India's Balance-of-Payments Challenge: Need for Structural Transformation in Uncertain Times

New Delhi, May 25 -- A balance-of-payments problem arises when a country consistently spends more foreign exchange than it earns through exports, services, remittances, and investments. The resulting ... Read More