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Pakistan in 2024: Economic Strife, Political Resentment, & Security Pressures Spell Gloom
Pakistan is experiencing multiple crises at once, both at its core and its periphery. The protracted concerns of political instability, economic recession, nation-building anxieties, and threats to security have combined into what many commentators have termed the state’s polycrisis. As…
ट्रम्प 2.0: दक्षिण एशिया हेतु निहितार्थ
रिपब्लिकन उम्मीदवार डॉनल्ड जे. ट्रम्प की विजय के साथ, संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका के चुनावों से संबंधित अटकलों और उत्साह का अब अंत हो गया है | अमेरिका के चुनावी इतिहास में, 100 से अधिक वर्षों में यह प्रथम बार हुआ…
Water as Leverage? Improving Iran’s Treatment of Afghan Migrants
From October 14 to 15, more than 200 Afghan migrants attempting to enter Iran irregularly were reportedly attacked by Iranian border guards. HalVash, an advocacy group for the Baloch people that is based in Iran, claimed that dozens were killed…
The Trans-Afghan Multimodal Transport Corridor: Will it Achieve Regional Connectivity?
In 2023, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan developed an idea to connect South and Central Asia through a railroad to enhance trade and economic opportunity in the region. That idea has now taken the shape of the Trans-Afghan Multimodal Transport Corridor.…
Trump 2.0: Implications for South Asia
The speculation and excitement around the U.S. election has ended with the victory of Republican candidate, Donald J. Trump. For the first time in over a 100 years, a candidate has become president after being voted out of office once…
India Should Take a Proactive Interest in the TAPI Pipeline
On September 11, 2024, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan declared a public holiday in Herat to mark the resumption of work on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline. At the inauguration ceremony, Taliban chief Mohammad Hassan Akhund and President Serdar Berdimuhamedov…