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Matein Khalid The US-Israel war with Iran has now stretched beyond five weeks, inflicting extensive damage on energy infrastructure, airports, ports and commercial and technology hubs across the six GCC states. The closure of the Strait of…
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury For decades a shadow economy of drugs, counterfeit currency and illicit cash flows has threaded its…
Dr Imran Khalid In an era when the global economy staggers under the weight of inflation, trade wars, and geopolitical fractures,…
By Manish Rai In his maiden speech in the United Nations General Assembly, Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, called for lifting…
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury For decades, the Muslim Brotherhood has loomed large in the Western imagination, often described as the ideological…
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury Bangladesh is entering one of the most dangerous phases of its history. At the centre of…
By Tajul Islam When Bangladesh’s students took to the streets last year, their demands were clear: dismantle the structures of fascism,…
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury (Approx. 705 words) In 2003, Washington justified its invasion of Iraq by claiming Saddam Hussein had Weapons…
Dr Divya Malhotra Across Europe, the United States, and even parts of Asia, Jewish communities and Israeli citizens are facing a…
Dr Imran Khalid On July 26, 2025, amid the grandeur of Shanghai’s World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on AI…
M. A. Hossain When Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian president and current deputy chair of Russia’s Security Council, addressed the Liberation Movements Summit in…
By Manish Rai Recently, we saw large-scale violence targeting the Syrian Druze community in Sweida province in southern Syria. Druze are…
M A Hossain It is easy to overlook the quiet revolutions in geopolitics, especially when the headlines are dominated by wars…
M A Hossain Donald Trump once campaigned on ending the war in Ukraine within 24 hours. He promised to bring an…
XI’s BICKS NO-SHOW: STRATEGIC SHIFT OR SILENT WARNING? CHINESE SYMBOLISM ON CONFIDENCE IN FULL PLAY M A Hossain In the realm…
Imran Khalid In a global economic environment that remains shaky and uneven, China’s ability to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) is…
By Manish Rai The question of regime change in Iran has recently resurfaced after the killing of Iran’s top military commanders…
Dr Imran Khalid “We made a great deal with China. We’re very happy with it.” So declared President Donald Trump in…
M A Hossain By any military measure, Ukraine’s ‘Operation Spider Web’ was an astonishing success. In a meticulously planned operation, Ukrainian…
Matein Khalid I spent a wonderful afternoon with an old friend, a Persian prince in his cousin’s Jumeirah villa to heal…
Matein Khalid He was a handsome young Gen-Z kid from Dubai, son of a Sindhi family long settled in the UAE,…
Dr Imran Khalid President Donald Trump’s erratic dance with tariffs continues to confound not just global markets but even his own team. On April…
Dr Imran Khalid President Donald Trump’s declaration of April 2, 2025, as “Liberation Day” marked a seismic shift in U.S. trade…
Dr Imran Khalid The winds of uncertainty are sweeping through Europe as the continent grapples with the stark reality of a…
By Tajul Islam On January 20, 2025, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order suspending all USAID and State Department-funded…
Matein Khalid Trump inherited a US economy with 3% growth, a 4% unemployment rate and near 0% recession risk a mere…
Matein Khalid All roads lead to Riyadh, which has replaced Geneva as the epicentre of global diplomacy in 2025. Presidents Trump and Putin…
Matein Khalid V.S. Naipaul once said that ancestral memories are like “trap doors to a bottomless past”. This was my first…