From politicians to cricketers to Islamists, Pakistan is celebrating the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. But, as Beijing flexes its muscles, its attempts to start a…
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Modi’s India and NSO: For two years, aided by Israeli technology, my own government spied on me. This is what it’s like to be targeted,…
As advisors to Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan resort to antisemitic slurs to delegitimize more evidence of contacts with Israel, a strange, contradictory geopolitical quadrangle will…
If the Indian left wants to offer constructive solidarity with the Palestinian cause, why is it valorizing violent, extremist, illiberal groups like Hamas and its…
It is paradoxical for the Indian left to condemn state violence by Israel or India, in the name of national security, while endorsing the killing,…
As the Israel-Gaza conflict raged, India’s UN ambassador backed the ‘just Palestinian cause,’ but police arrested pro-Palestinian protestors in Indian-controlled Kashmir: A dissonance fuelled by…
As the Israel-Gaza conflict rages, India’s UN ambassador backs the ‘just Palestinian cause.’ In Indian-controlled Kashmir, police arrest pro-Palestinian protestors. This is how history, Hindutva…
The world is watching India’s coronavirus catastrophe, and it could use any lifeline at this point. Israel could now help this Asiatic power overcome one…
Narendra Modi’s attempts to censor the news and massage death rates can’t hide his failure to prepare India for its disastrous second COVID wave. Indians…
When the Culture Ministry honored a Nazi sympathizer who mocked democracy and called for the forced subjugation of the Muslim minority, it was a chilling…
Pakistan’s opposition hosts Hamas at mass rallies against a ‘Jewish-Indian plot’: Illegal funding for Prime Minister Imran Khan’s army-backed party, in exchange for normalizing relations…
Modi’s relentless endorsement of Trump earned India few tangible benefits. And now he faces the mother of all political hangovers with a U.S. administration headed…
Peace by decree works for Gulf autocracies, but it is no model for Pakistan’s raucous democracy. Normalization faces formidable obstacles – but from Muslim scholars…
Normalization with Israel doesn’t mean relinquishing support for the Palestinians. But it would be the kind of political pragmatism that Pakistan, now more than ever,…
Trump has proven to be an unreliable, moody, short-sighted and overly transactional ally for India. On critical issues like China and Iran, trade and terrorism,…
For India, as for Israel, the split in the Muslim world is a strategic opportunity. It’s in Afghanistan that New Delhi needs Arab Gulf allies…
When Narendra Modi inaugurated a Hindu temple in Ayodhya recently, it marked a moment of weighty, if not alarming, transformation for both India and Hinduism:…
Faced with a rapacious China, India’s fence-sitting diplomacy has run its course. New Delhi must invest whole-heartedly in genuine strategic allies, like the U.S. and…
Boosted by binge viewing during India’s coronavirus lockdown, two international TV series have won fanatic fans. Behind the small screen is a geopolitical drama starring…
There may be pragmatic reasons for Bangladesh to consider ties with Israel. But having fought our own liberation war against a cruel occupier, we cling…