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Quad and Counterterrorism? Considerations for the 2025 Summit
Earlier this month, the Quad took an unprecedented stand on the issue of terrorism at the foreign ministers’ meeting in Washington. The joint statement condemned “all acts of terrorism and violent extremism in all its forms and manifestations, including cross-border…
BIMSTEC Seeks to Succeed Where SAARC Failed
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is increasingly positioned as the primary vehicle for regional cooperation in South Asia amid the decline of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). BIMSTEC – comprising…
Can the Indus Waters Treaty Be Held in Abeyance? What the Law Allows
Two days after the April 22 attack in Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, New Delhi declared that its participation in the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) would be “held in abeyance” until Pakistan “credibly and irrevocably abjures ” with cross-border terrorism.…
How Naval Diplomacy Could Rewrite Pakistan-Bangladesh Ties
The Bay of Bengal carries more than trade—it carries the weight of history. Yet, as Bangladesh’s BNS Samudra Joy docked in Karachi for Aman 2025, its first major warship deployment to Pakistan in over a decade, these waters now chart…
Health Diplomacy as a Pathway to South Asian Stability: Revitalizing SAARC Through Regional Cooperation
The COVID-19 pandemic underscored a fundamental truth—epidemics cannot be contained unilaterally. The rapid spread of the virus highlighted the global interdependence of health systems, where technology, medicine, expertise, and vaccine production relied on the complementary strengths of each state. Multilateral…
सिंधु जल संधि को प्रासंगिक बनाए रखने हेतु अद्यतन की अनिवार्यता
30 अगस्त, 2024 को, भारत ने सिंधु जल संधि (आईडब्ल्यूटी) की समीक्षा और संशोधन की मांग पाकिस्तान को औपचारिक रूप से एक सूचना पत्र देकर की| भारत ने यह सूचना पत्र परिवर्तित हो रही जनसंख्या जनसांख्यिकी, कृषि मांगों की पूर्ति और स्वच्छ ऊर्जा विकास में…