As Pakistan faces multiple internal crises, from its economy to terrorist violence, it now has to contend with a battle with its volatile western neighbour.
For the moment, Israel's conflict in Gaza provides enough legitimacy to deploy substantial peacekeeping forces through the Red Sea, but the model is unsustainable.
Local Gujjar residents had played a critical role in military operations against the Lashkar-e-Taiba in the Pir Panjal mountains before 2003, setting up special militia to fight terrorism.
When Modi stood on the cusp of being elected PM, he vowed to hunt down Dawood. That hasn’t been delivered on—but media seems determined to proclaim success, regardless.
Houthi missile attack in the Red Sea holds out an important lesson for the West: Efforts to keep the Israel-Palestine crisis contained to Gaza are unlikely to succeed.
Ever since the Myanmar military regained control of the State in 2021, India—like China and other nations in Southeast Asia—has seen its power as a kind of necessary evil.
Machiavelli might have also counselled the Israeli PM not to be too eager in his grasp of total victory. Triumph, he might have said, can be almost as dangerous as defeat.
Donald Trump, who has nurtured the MAGA movement for the last decade, has been perceived to have lost control over the movement, particularly with the release of Epstein’s records.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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