The Taliban Takeover and Afghans Ontological (In)Security
Since the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan in mid-August 2021, the general public, media, and academic environments have tremendously discussed the event’s security implications....
And Afghanistan Survives as the Graveyard of Empires
Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan once tried hard to conquer the area now known as Afghanistan. Not just as "The Graveyard of Empires"...
Why Prime Minister Khan has failed?
One of the finest quote attributed to James Freeman Clarke is, “a politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation”....
Nepali Congress, Foreign Policy and Global Politics
K.P Sharma Oli and Madhav Kumar Nepal; the duo collided, shaken the communist movement as well as degraded the 2/3 majority ultimately became deadly...
Balochistan: A land of endless misery
On September 26, the statue of Pakistan’s Father of the Nation, Quaid-i-Azam, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was destroyed in a bomb attack in Marine Drive...
Afghanistan and the Quest for Democracy Promotion: Symptoms of Post-Cold War Malaise
The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan should be the first step in a reduced American overseas force posture. Democracy promotion in the form of perpetual...
What, in fact, is India’s stand on Kashmir?
At the UNGA, India’s first secretary Sneha Dubey said the entire Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh "were, are and will always...
The failure of the great games in Afghanistan from the 19th century to the present day
Whenever great powers have tried to make Afghanistan a colony, they have always been defeated. British imperialism and its “civilising mission” towards backward (and...
The Post-US Withdrawal Afghanistan: India, China and the ‘English Diplomacy’
The recent developments in Afghanistan, the impatient Tri-axis and the emphatic India at SCO, with the ‘English Diplomacy’ at display that tends to blunt...
Opposing Hindutava: US conference raises troubling questions
Controversy over a recent ‘Dismantling Global Hindutava’ conference that targeted a politically charged expression of Hindu nationalism raises questions that go far beyond the...