On November 17, the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, was sentenced to death in absentia for crimes against humanity for her active role in ordering a brutal crackdown on the student uprising of 2024. In early 2025, the United Nations Human Rights Office found that Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League party systematically engaged in a series of human rights violations during the student-led protests which toppled her government and led to the deaths of at least 1400 people.
Rarely has any government in Bangladesh’s fractious political life been so roundly condemned so early,...
Begum Khaleda Zia, the Chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and a three-time Prime...
While Pakistan has historically been using coercive diplomacy against various regimes in Kabul, the new...
The global resurgence of religion among young people (especially young men) stands as one of...
When Kathmandu’s skyline turned red with fire on the evening of September 10, 2025, few...
In September 2024, addressing a jubilant rally of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters, Indian Prime...
Retaliating to India’s coercive measures following the massacre of 26 tourists in Pahalgam, Kashmir, responsibility...
Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus has repeatedly emphasized the importance of regional cooperation for the...
We, the people of knowledge and vision, have intellect and abilities to distinguish right from...
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat broke the mould of Middle Eastern geopolitics when he made a...
The military-ruled Myanmar (earlier known as Burma and Brahmadesh) staged the first phase of general...
On 15 December, at a press conference in Yangon, Myanmar’s deputy minister for information, Major...
Three warships from Russia’s Pacific Fleet arrived in Yangon in the middle of last month...
Thailand and India joins China, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and more in...
Climate change has increasingly become a defining factor in global security debates, not merely as...
The global resurgence of religion among young people (especially young men) stands as one of...
Bangladesh has once again become the place where South Asia’s unease gathers. The protests are...
I cannot write about Begum Khaleda Zia in the past tense. She was my class,...
B.H. Khasru’s Hasina, Yunus and the United States: The Power Struggle for Bangladesh arrives at...
