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.…
BRICS, Quad, and India’s Multi-Alignment Strategy
India’s participation in a series of summits—including as part of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD), Shanghai Corporation Organisation (SCO), Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) summit, G7 meeting, and Commonwealth Summit—exhibits an internationalist foreign policy. India has worked…
Russia, Ukraine, and India’s Multi-Alignment Shortcomings
The ongoing crisis in Ukraine serves as a stark reminder of how a world increasingly defined by militarized geopolitical rivalries leaves no country unscathed. Defying strategic logic, Russia’s three front invasion of Ukraine has left several countries, including India, attempting…
Myanmar’s Divided State Leaves Thousands of its People in the Lurch
More than ten months after the coup and a protracted conflict that has produced a political and military stalemate, the struggle in Myanmar now extends to a battle for diplomatic recognition from multilateral global institutions, including the United Nations and…
India and the United States: Friends Elsewhere, Foes at the UN
Can India be a meaningful partner of the United States in global governance? Many in the United States have regularly raised this question as both a practical and a strategic problem since 2000. At the practical level, the incongruence between…
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یہ بات تقریباً عالمی طور پر تسلیم شدہ ہے کہ خواتین اور لڑکیوں کو بااختیار بنانے کا رجحان کسی بھی ملک میں بہتر طرز حکمرانی، معاشی ترقی، بہتر انسانی ترقی کے اشاریے اور مجموعی استحکام کا باعث بنتا ہے۔ مزید…