Prime Minister Tarique Rahman is, by any measure, a fortunate man. Not simply because he has reached the highest elected office in Bangladesh, but because he has arrived there at a moment when history has placed an extraordinary opportunity before him. Few political leaders are given the chance to inherit a country so eager for change, so conscious of its past failures, and so hopeful about its future.
Mohammed bin Salman: Could the Enemy Be From Within? More Than the Houthis
Mohammed Bin Salman faces military losses, Family-Related Risks, economic pressures, and regional allies turning against...
What is Badr Pact Now?
The ink had barely dried in Doha when the label arrived. "Another Muslim NATO," some...
Gwadar Port and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Environmental Security Risks and Geopolitical Contestation in Balochistan
According to a report published in August 2026 by the Business and Human Rights Centre,...
Microcredit, Yunus and the Foul-Mouthing Awami League
In recent years, the Awami League, which governed Bangladesh for more than fifteen years before...
Beneath the Soil, Beyond the Surface: Pakistan’s Mineral Moment
The next chapter of global economic competition may be written not only in factories, financial...
Afghanistan’s Militant Networks Raise Fresh Concerns for Central Asia
The situation in Afghanistan remains a serious security concern for the neighboring states. The very...
Us and Them: State Power and the Unequal Burden of Minority Identity in South Asia
One of the hottest debated topics when it comes to politics in South Asia is...
Beyond Remittances: Evaluating Pakistan’s Potential as a strategic Asian Partner for the Gulf States
The Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement (SMDA) between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, signed in September 2025,...
An ‘All-for-Arakan’ Approach Is Needed to Address the Rohingya Refugee Crisis
As resistance against long-term Rohingya presence in host countries grows, the refugees’ fate is back...
Noakhali 1946: Communal Violence, Colonial Injustice, and the Tragedy of India's Partition
Noakhali is the site of one of the darkest episodes in the Indian subcontinent. There...
The Middle East at a Breaking Point: Can Diplomacy Avert a Crisis with Global Consequences?
In an international environment increasingly shaped by geopolitical rivalry and regional insecurity, diplomacy is not...
Manipur’s Crisis of Silence: How Ethnic Grievances Turned into Prolonging Conflict
The most recent violence in Manipur has revealed the weaknesses of a peace process which...
Matarbari for Whom? Bangladesh Must Not Pay for India’s Strategic Advantage
An offshore deep-sea port can pave the way for a country's prosperity. However, the utility...
Balochistan’s Future Depends on Resisting Extremism and Expanding Opportunity
The future of Balochistan is determined by the development of the region, which is why...
The Battle for India’s Democratic Space
India witnessed one of its most dramatic confrontations between citizens and the state this week...
The Houthi threat that Saudi Arabia couldn’t end
A Houthi missile and drone strike on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on 10 October...
Malaysia’s Rohingya Repatriation Fiasco: A Diplomatic Humiliation and a Betrayal of Human Rights
Malaysia's move to send thousands of refugees and migrants to Burma shows just how hypocritical...
Gwadar Beyond the Port: Putting People First
Gwadar has long occupied a central position in Pakistan’s economic and strategic vision. Its deep-sea...
Kashmir’s Contested Memory: Burhan Wani and the Politics of Dissent
The controversy surrounding Burhan Wani’s legacy has once again brought the Kashmir conflict into the...
The Indian Protest March & Secularism
It is as yet too early to describe Gen Z’s protest against Chief Election Commissioner...
Current Issue
Fall 2026: Issue 44
A Rare Mandate , A Historic Responsibility
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman is, by any measure, a fortunate man. Not simply because he...
- Afghanistan, Twenty-Five Years Later: The War That Refuses to End
- Afghan Soil and the Growing Terrorist Threat to Pakistan
- Analyzing the Critical Dimensions of Militant Convergence in Afghanistan
- The Unresolved Test for Afghanistan: Five Years Under the Taliban Regime
- Atlantic Council Warns Afghanistan a Global Terrorism hub
- Afghanistan’s Terrorism Problem Is No Longer Contained
- Five Years After Kabul’s Fall: The Taliban’s Test of Governance
- Afghanistan: Five Years of Taliban Rule: How Stability Was Achieved Without Freedom
- The fragmentation of resistance in Afghanistan
- Five Years After Taliban Takeover, Young Afghans Learn To Live Under Its Repressive Rule
- Not All Is Well for the Taliban in North Afghanistan
- The Yaftal Raid: A New Anti-Taliban Front and the Shadow of Pakistan
- An Afghan Ally’s Death in ICE Custody Raises Questions of Duty and Justice
- Europe’s Taliban Conundrum: Migration and Recognition Politics
- Why the Taliban’s Drone Claims Don’t Survive the Reality Check
- Understanding the Pakistan and Taliban Security Rift
- Terrorism, Accountability and Regional Stability
- Work on TAPI project in Afghanistan ongoing and accelerating: Mujahid
- Russia’s Taliban Gamble and the Risks of Empowering a Terror Sanctuary
- Fire from Within
- Afghanistan is surrendering its mineral wealth – and its future
- Pakistan Afghanistan Border Security and the Debate Over Safe Havens
- China’s Quiet Mediation in Afghanistan–Pakistan Tensions: Limits and Opportunities
- Beyond Bombing: Pakistan’s Sanctuary Problem in Afghanistan
- Matarbari for Whom? Bangladesh Must Not Pay for India’s Strategic Advantage
- Mujib’s Blunders: Revisiting the Liberator Who Struggled to Govern
- The Harassment of Professor Yunus: Political Vengeance at the Expense of Bangladesh’s Dignity
- Ganges Water Sharing Treaty - Why Bangladesh should take the opportunity when it expires in 2026
- Bangladesh and the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement Question
- The Geopolitical Chessboard: Potential Map Changes and Sovereignty Challenges for Bangladesh
- A Nation’s Amnesia: Jinnah and Bangladesh
- Reclaiming Bangladesh’s Energy Security: A Roadmap for Urgent Reform
- The Jinnah Photograph and Bangladesh’s Battle Over History
- Bangladesh’s Urban Climate Crisis
- A Nation’s Amnesia: Jinnah and Bangladesh
- From Borders to Bridges: Why Economic Diplomacy Will Define the Future of Global Cooperation
- Beyond the Politics of Blocs: BIMSTEC, Bangladesh and the New Architecture of the Global South
- Human Capital and Social Mobility: An Elegy
- Where Is Bangladesh–India Relations Stuck? A Geostrategic Analysis
- When Politics Devours the State: Bangladesh's Bureaucracy at a Crossroads
- ‘The Difficult Bride’ Review: A Bangladeshi Feminist Folk Horror Makes History at Venice
- Collected anecdotes of Maulana Bhashani: Stories that convey a thousand messages
- Battle for the Teesta
- Diplomacy by Design: How Bangladesh Can Unite the Great Powers Behind a Rohingya Solution
- The Politics of Principle: Ashraf Uddin Nizan and the Ethical Meaning of Nationalist Leadership
- Bengal Divided: The Political Legacy of the 1905 Partition
- ACBSP or AACSB? What International Accreditation Really Means for Bangladesh’s Business Schools
- Karishma Manzur’s New Hampshire Senate Bid: A Legacy of Courage and a Campaign for Change
- Kashmir’s Contested Memory: Burhan Wani and the Politics of Dissent
- Gwadar Beyond the Port: Putting People First
- Beyond Remittances: Building a New Economic Partnership Between Pakistan and the Gulf
- Chashma-5 and the Architecture of Nuclear Trust
- Pakistan Targets Trade Growth Through Improved Gwadar Transit Facilities
- Imran Khan’s Imprisonment and Pakistan’s Deepening Crisis of Democracy
- The Houthi Dilemma: Pakistan’s Red Lines in the Red Sea
- Telangana Took a Decade. Pakistan Wants New Provinces.
- Role of Blue Economy in Sustainable Socio-economic Development of Pakistan
- Makkah Defence Agreement Opens Space for Graduated Pakistani Support
- When Roads Become Death Traps: FAH’s Mines and the Human Cost in Balochistan
- Targeting Warmongers: Pakistan’s Western Frontier Enters a New Security Phase
- Imran Khan is still “not out”
- Pakistan’s Evolving Nuclear Security Architecture: Progress and Responsibility
- Hub Oil City: Reconfiguring Pakistan’s Energy Geography
- Balochistan Beyond Minerals
- Strategic Importance of the Petroleum Sector for Pakistan
- From Trust to Interdependence: Critical Analysis of Recent Pakistan-UAE Overtures
- Where Free Speech Meets the Front Line
- Strategic Impact of Drones on Warfare
- Why Cricket Remains the Epicenter of Politicization in South Asia?
- Pakistan-UAE Strategic Partnership
- Protection of Minorities’ Rights and Maintenance of Interfaith Harmony
- Who Governs Islamabad? A Capital without Its Governance
- How Gen Z Protests Are Reshaping Politics in Asia
- Russia’s War and the Limits of India’s Global Ambitions
- Protests Cannot Be Silenced, Democratically Speaking!
- India’s Peacemaker Ambitions Undermine by its Support of Russia’s War Economy Essay
- I. K. Gujral’s Warning: When India Demands Uniformity, It Risks Its Unity
- Crisis of Student Suicide, Death of Dreams and Illiberal Escapism in India
- India's Electoral Rolls Under Scrutiny: The SIR, Voter Deletions and the Test of Democratic Credibility
- The Security Net and Kashmir’s Apple Economy
- India’s Electoral System Faces a Credibility Test
- The Shadow Partnership: R&AW, Mossad and the Politics of Regional Security
- India’s Voter Roll Exercise Raises Questions Over Electoral Inclusion
- Recruitment into Government Jobs Facing Scrutiny as Patna Students Hit the Streets
- What the 18th BRICS Summit Actually Achieved
- The Erosion of Indian Ethos, religion, and culture
- BRICS Summit pushes for permanent Indian presence in UNSC
- India’s Power Grid and the AI-Era Sovereignty Problem
- The Assam Dilemma: Where the Administrative Authority Ends in India?
- India’s Late Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda As A Beacon of Morality For Political Leaders
- BRICS+ Summit: Between Promises and Contradictions
- Tibet's Long Struggle: Empire, Faith, Occupation, and the Fight for Cultural Survival
- the Undocumented :Book review
- Secular in the Constitution, Majoritarian in Practice? India’s Muslims and the Crisis of Constitutional Secularism
- The Mirage of a Superpower: Why India's Global Ambitions Outrun Its National Reality
- India Has the Gavel. Does It Still Have a Voice?
- Beyond Nepal: The Urgent Need for a Himalayan Risk-Sharing Treaty
- When the Mountain Broke: Inside Nepal's Deadliest Himalayan Flood
- Nepal's Flash Flood: A Warning from Asia's Melting "Third Pole"
- When Trophies Triumph Over Truth
- Starlink rolls out to small countries like Nepal, where Connectivity, sovereignty, and choices are at stake
- One Country, Two Governments: Nepal’s Crisis of Leadership
- Communal Violence in Nepal: A Warning Against the Politics of Religious Division
- Nepal’s Role in UN Peacekeeping - a Soft Power in Global Diplomacy
- Nepal–India Trade War: When Politics Trump Commerce
- New Governments, New Opportunities: US Relations with Bangladesh and Nepal Three Months In
- From Kathmandu to Dhaka: Can Nepal's Gen Z Political Awakening Inspire a Democratic Reset Across South Asia?
- Assam electorates record impressive polling turnout
- New Kathmandu Regime's Dramatic Action
- Nepal's New Government Off to a Quick Start
- Will Nepal’s New Political Realignment Transform the Nation?
- After the revolution, Nepal’s foreign policy is anyone’s guess
- When new guards readied to lead Nepal
- PM Modi congratulates Nepali citizens for successful election
- Nepal's Strategic Geography and Political Alignment
- Nepal’s Political Earthquake: The Landslide Rise of Balendra Shah and the Rashtriya Swatantra Party
- A new political guard arrives to confront Nepal’s old problems
- Nepal at the Crossroads: Hindu Nationalism, Monarchy, and the Future of a Secular Republic
- Nepal’s Post Gen Z Protest Elections: A Political Turning Point in the Himalayas
- Revival of Nepal monarchy rising amid election waves
- Between Bridges and Ports: The Maldives Balances India and China
- Debt, trade and the bridge: India's envoy on the exceptions New Delhi makes for the Maldives
- Independence is not a date. It is a daily decision.
- The Paradise at the Crossroads of Russia’s Sanctions Trade: The Maldives Trades
- Indian media’s hype of Modi’s visit to the Maldives reflects adversarial, zero-sum game mentality: Chinese expert
Mohammed bin Salman: Could the Enemy Be From Within? More Than the Houthis
Mohammed Bin Salman faces military losses, Family-Related Risks, economic pressures, and regional allies turning against...
What is Badr Pact Now?
The ink had barely dried in Doha when the label arrived. "Another Muslim NATO," some...
The Middle East at a Breaking Point: Can Diplomacy Avert a Crisis with Global Consequences?
In an international environment increasingly shaped by geopolitical rivalry and regional insecurity, diplomacy is not...
The Houthi threat that Saudi Arabia couldn’t end
A Houthi missile and drone strike on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on 10 October...
From Iran to China: The Emerging Trans-Central Asian Corridor
For centuries, geography dictated that most commerce between East Asia and the Middle East traveled...
An ‘All-for-Arakan’ Approach Is Needed to Address the Rohingya Refugee Crisis
As resistance against long-term Rohingya presence in host countries grows, the refugees’ fate is back...
Malaysia’s Rohingya Repatriation Fiasco: A Diplomatic Humiliation and a Betrayal of Human Rights
Malaysia's move to send thousands of refugees and migrants to Burma shows just how hypocritical...
China's Rise To Power And Geography
As China has become a world power, its naval capability has grown substantially over the...
Rethinking Myanmar’s Union from the periphery
For decades, federalism(Opens in new window) has been at the heart of Myanmar’s ethnic political...
Why Anwar is turning on Malaysia’s Rohingyas
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim shocked the refugee community when he said on 16 September...
An ‘All-for-Arakan’ Approach Is Needed to Address the Rohingya Refugee Crisis
As resistance against long-term Rohingya presence in host countries grows, the refugees’ fate is back...
The Houthi threat that Saudi Arabia couldn’t end
A Houthi missile and drone strike on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on 10 October...
The Nobel Laureate who shook the Maldives in 2011
When Navi Pillay rose to address the Majlis on 24 November 2011, she began by...
Rethinking Myanmar’s Union from the periphery
For decades, federalism(Opens in new window) has been at the heart of Myanmar’s ethnic political...
Us and Them: State Power and the Unequal Burden of Minority Identity in South Asia
One of the hottest debated topics when it comes to politics in South Asia is...
