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Colombo Port City and the Diminishing Scope of Sri Lankan Policy Autonomy
Colombo Port City began as a promise of transformation, but it has become a measure of Sri Lanka’s constrained autonomy. Built on 269 hectares of reclaimed land beside Colombo’s central business district, the Chinese-backed project is designed as a Special…
فتح کا بیانیہ، خروج کی حصول یابی: مئی 2025 کے بھارت-پاکستان بحران میں بیانیہ کا غلبہ
مئی 2025 کے بھارت- پاکستان تنازعہ کے بعد، جسے بڑے پیمانے پر دونوں ایٹمی مسلح حریفوں کے مابین شدید ترین فوجی جھڑپوں میں سے ایک قرار دیا گیا، بھارت اورپاکستان دونوں اپنی اپنی فتح اور ضبط کے دعووں کے ساتھ…
BIMSTEC and the Challenge of Asymmetric Adoption
Long dismissed as “summit-driven” and superficial, the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is now beginning to deliver. On May 16, 2026, the BIMSTEC Secretariat confirmed that the Agreement on Maritime Transport Cooperation (AMTC), the…
परमाणु संयम का क्षरण: नतान्ज़ से दक्षिण एशिया के अगले संकट तक
ईरान की नतान्ज़ यूरेनियम संवर्धन सुविधा पर हुए अमेरिका-इज़रायल के प्रहार और डिमोना के समीप इज़रायल की अपनी परमाणु संवर्धन सुविधा को निशाना साधकर किए गए ईरानी हमले, वैश्विक परमाणु राजनीति में एक तीव्र और ख़तरनाक बदलाव को प्रदर्शित करते…
India’s Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor: What Makes Pakistan Anxious?
Editor's Note: This article is the second part of a two-part series on India's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor. Read the first part here. On April 6, 2026, India’s Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) reached criticality. Initially scheduled for 2010, the…
Breeding Power: India’s Nuclear Energy Breakthrough
On April 6, India’s indigenous 500MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, achieved first criticality—the point at which a controlled, self-sustaining nuclear fission chain reaction begins.