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Turkey’s looking more like Pakistan every day. Blasphemy-obsessed, imprisoned by hatred

Erdoğan’s beliefs are increasingly evident beyond Turkey’s borders, too. The new regime in Syria has embraced Sharia as the basis of its laws, just as Erdoğan seeks in his homeland.

Asim Munir is playing good jihadi-bad jihadi game. Suicide bombing shows he’s failing

As a succession of generals before Asim Munir learned, cooptation of Pakistani jihadism is a dangerous—and mostly short-lived—enterprise.

Why 1969 USSR-China conflict has crucial lessons for Iran & Israel

In its conflict with the USSR, China learned that a nation with a fledgling nuclear arsenal could not hope to deter a significant power.

Trump’s seduction of Asim Munir won’t get him cheap labour to uphold American Peace

Trump’s gushing reception of Field Marshal Asim Munir has caused no small anxiety in India. For the first time since 26/11, the US seems to be tilting toward Islamabad.

Iran and Israel are fighting their demons, not a war. They are prisoners of their nightmares

The world needs leaders awake to the abyss that lies ahead of this Israel-Iran war. But there are no signs of any, not in Tehran or Tel Aviv, nor in Washington.

Israel crushed Ayatollah’s regime, but stopping Iran’s nuke programme will need total overthrow

Israel and the United States are now betting that Iran’s leadership will acknowledge their military and economic weakness and return to the negotiating table.

Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric is tearing LA apart—a city built by Mexican settlers in 1781

Chinese massacres, Zoot Suit beatings, Watts violence, and Rodney King riots show how Los Angeles has always been America's testing ground for racial acceptance.

Srinagar train reminds us Kashmir was secured by iron and rock, that’s how soldiers moved in

The war India really needs to win is to make Kashmir’s people secure, prosperous partners in the project of India. Each journey on the new train will bring us just a little closer.

Lashkar’s renewed blossoming shows war hasn’t coerced Pakistan Army into giving up on Kashmir

Islamabad knows it cannot take Kashmir by force, and yet it persists in waging a war without an end. To give up the conflict would mean giving up the idea on which the project of Pakistan rests.

India paid for ignoring warnings in 1965 war. It can’t afford to repeat those mistakes today

Even though the Indian Army had repeatedly war-gamed attacks by Pakistan since at least 1956, Lieutenant General Harbaksh Singh said the Pakistani offensive in 1965 caught it completely off-guard.

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India can face multi-front conflicts with hostile Dhaka. New Delhi missed chance to engage BNP

India's projects related to BIMSTEC, Look-East-Act-East and Indian Ocean Rim Association could suffer a setback, impacting trade with South Asia and the South-South Cooperation agenda.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

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.

IAF’s leased KC-135 lands in Agra, American firm’s pilots to man mid-air refueller

India’s refueller fleet comprises six Russian Ilushin-78 tankers, first inducted in 2003, which are facing huge maintenance and serviceability issues.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.