Saima Afzal    As geopolitical competition intensifies across multiple regions, countries capable of maintaining working relationships with rival powers are...

Faisal Mahmud    There are political operators who rise through ideology, and there are bureaucrats who rise through obedience. Then there is Dr Khalilur Rahman, a...

Faisal Mahmud    Dhaka on Thursday (April 30) issued a sharp diplomatic protest by summoning India’s acting High Commissioner, Pawan Badhe, following controversial...

Jannatul Naym Pieal    The explosion that tore through the Ummul Qura International Madrasa in Keraniganj on December 26 last year followed a very familiar trajectory. What...

Faisal Mahmud    Bangladesh, South Asia’s second-largest economy and one of the world’s fastest-growing garment exporters, has spent much of the past two years trying...

Saima Afzal    Pakistan’s instability is no longer a localized security concern-it is emerging as a structural constraint on US strategy in Asia. For Washington,...

Saima Afzal    The recent US-Israel-Iran conflict has confirmed a structural shift in warfare: artificial intelligence is no longer just enhancing military...

Faisal Mahmud    The letter landed within Dhaka’s already charged political atmosphere. Writing from abroad, ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made her first formal...

William Pesek    TOKYO In Asia, no national leader has been more effective in spinning an underperforming economy than India’s Narendra Modi. Anytime the numbers...

Imran Khurshid    Has Pakistan genuinely become important on the global stage, or is it being strategically projected as such? A closer look suggests that much of the...

Faisal Mahmud    During the tenure of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s external accounts reflected a dual reality. On the surface was the official...

Omer Azhar    When Pakistani Field Marshal Asim Munir addressed Pakistan’s parliamentary security committee in March 2025, he asked a question that had been...

Saima Afzal    Escalating clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan are quickly turning the Durand Line dispute into a wider regional security crisis. What began as...

Faisal Mahmud    Bangladesh’s new parliament began its first session under the weight of a dispute that goes to the core of the country’s post-uprising political...

Sue Farran and Colin Murray    More than a year ago, the UK agreed to grant Mauritius sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, which Britain has governed as the British Indian...

Rashid Siddiqui    In the rugged terrain along the Durand Line, the contested border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, a fresh wave of violence has erupted, pitting...

Saima Afzal    The US-Iran war has reached the Indian Ocean. The sinking of the Iranian navy frigate IRIS Dena, reportedly struck by a US submarine about 40...

Faisal Mahmud    The escalating conflict in Iran and the Gulf region has exposed a structural reality: geography remains the ultimate arbiter of market stability....

Saima Afzal    The latest escalation between Pakistan and Afghanistan marks one of the most serious turning points in relations between the two neighbors since the...

Faisal Mahmud    Just as fragile investor confidence was beginning to return to Bangladesh after months of political upheaval, the abrupt ouster of central bank...