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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…

India’s Approach to Taliban 2.0: Cautious and Persistent
Recent Indian moves such as foreign secretary Vikram Misri’s meeting with the Taliban regime’s foreign minister in January 2025 and news reports of New Delhi potentially accepting a Taliban representative to head the embassy have generated a lot of curiosity…

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…

ٹرمپ مودی ملاقات: تصفیہ طلب مسائل موجود مگر ارادے پھر بھی بلند
امریکی صدر ڈونالڈ ٹرمپ کی غیر متواتر دوسری مدّت (ٹرم)کے لئے حلف اٹھانے کے تین ہفتوں کے اندر ہی بھارتی وزیر اعظم نریندر مودی کو سرکاری ورکنگ وزٹ کے لئے وائٹ ہاؤس مدعو کیا گیا ۔ یہ متوقع دورہ امریکی…

As Anti-Junta Resistance Transforms Myanmar, Can India Afford to Play it Safe?
Four years after the military junta in Myanmar seized power in a coup, the country remains locked in a state of relentless armed conflict, political strife, and economic decay. Yet, on a closer look, it seems that a politically sophisticated…

An Incipient Reset: India-China Economic Cooperation in the Trump Era
In October 2024, India and China reached an agreement that deescalated tensions along their bilateral border that had been ongoing since April 2020. While the agreement may not by itself have resolved the root causes of the issues between the…