India, the world’s largest democracy, prides itself on constitutional ideals of equality, secularism, and diversity. Its founding documents promised a society where every citizen regardless of religion, caste, or ethnicity could participate equally in the political and social life of the nation. Yet, more than seven decades after independence, millions of Indian Muslims remain locked in the shadows of political marginalization. Despite constitutional safeguards like Articles 29 and 30, which guarantee protection for minority communities and their institutions, the actual translation of these rights into meaningful political power has been severely constrained. Historical inequalities, coupled with systemic exclusion, have left…
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India increasingly presents its growing military footprint as a contribution to regional stability. In reality, it has become one of the primary sources of strategic anxiety in South Asia. Arms accumulation without diplomacy does not deter conflict. It normalizes escalation. New Delhi’s security posture today is built on the assumption that strength alone can replace dialogue, and that assumption is quietly destabilizing the region. Over the past few years, India has pursued aggressive militarization while systematically hollowing out diplomatic engagement. Crisis hotlines exist on paper. Confidence-building measures are referenced rhetorically. But meaningful, sustained dialogue has been replaced by silence, ambiguity,…
For years, India has convinced Western capitals that visibility equals value. Summit photographs, choreographed state visits, ceremonial invitations, and carefully staged joint statements have become substitutes for policy substance. This performance-heavy diplomacy has allowed New Delhi to project the illusion of indispensability, even as its actual behavior increasingly undermines the stability the West claims to prioritize. The problem is not that India engages the West. It is how it engages. Diplomacy, in India’s current playbook, is less about alignment and more about presentation. High-profile events like the EU-India Summit and Republic Day showcases are weaponized to signal validation, not to…
The Taliban’s new criminal procedure code does not merely fail Afghan women. It actively hunts them. By embedding violence into legal thresholds and criminalizing escape from abuse, the regime has transformed the justice system into an accomplice of domestic terror. This is not neglect. It is design. Under the Taliban’s legal framework, violence inside the home is not a crime unless it leaves undeniable physical wreckage. Bruised dignity does not count. Broken bones do. Psychological torture is invisible. Repeated beatings that stop short of fractures are legally irrelevant. By setting such a grotesquely high bar for intervention, the Taliban have…
The Taliban’s newly circulated Criminal Procedure Code is not a religious document. It is a political fraud wrapped in religious language, designed to protect power, not uphold faith. By presenting a rigid, class-based justice system as Sharia, the Taliban are not merely misinterpreting Islam. They are actively dismantling its moral core and weaponizing its symbols to entrench their own unaccountable rule. Islam did not emerge as a faith of privilege. It emerged as a revolt against it. Seventh-century Arabia was a society stratified by lineage, wealth, and tribal dominance. Islam shattered that order by declaring moral and legal equality as…
United States President Donald Trump on Thursday withdrew Canada’s invitation to join his newly launched Board of Peace, a US-led initiative aimed at addressing international conflicts, following sharp remarks made by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The decision came shortly after Carney delivered a widely publicized speech criticizing the use of economic integration, trade policy, and tariffs as tools of coercion by powerful states. While Carney did not name the United States directly, his remarks were widely interpreted as a critique of Washington’s growing use of trade leverage in foreign policy. In a…
Pakistan’s decision to join the Board of Peace (BoP) for Gaza has sparked intense debate domestically, but it must be viewed through the lens of Pakistan’s unparalleled experience in peacekeeping and security oversight. While critics decry the move as sitting alongside Israel and compromising decades of principled support for Palestine, a closer examination reveals a strategic opportunity for Islamabad to safeguard the lives and livelihoods of 2.3 million Gazans. The BoP is not a traditional UN initiative. It is a technocratic, executive-led body dominated by Western powers, Israel, and key regional actors. It oversees reconstruction funds, governs infrastructure projects, and…
The 2025 Turkish Drug Report exposes what Pakistan has long suspected: the Taliban regime in Afghanistan is no longer a dysfunctional or isolated authority it is a strategically organized narco-state, embedding itself in international crime networks while destabilizing the region. Despite their publicized claims of banning poppy cultivation and narcotics trade, the Taliban have not dismantled their drug machinery; they have perfected it, turning illicit substances into a tool of economic leverage and regional destabilization. Afghanistan under the Taliban is exporting instability on a scale that directly threatens Pakistan. The report makes it abundantly clear that drug flows are no…
For too long, regulatory reform in Pakistan has been framed as something demanded by outsiders. Every time European investors raise concerns about predictability, taxation, or enforcement, the conversation slips into a defensive posture, as if reform were a price Pakistan must pay to be taken seriously. This framing is not only inaccurate, it is damaging. Regulatory reform is not submission to Europe or compliance with foreign pressure. It is an assertion of state authority. The EU–Pakistan Business Forum 2026 brings this contradiction into sharp focus. European capital is not held back by a lack of interest in Pakistan. It is…
Afghanistan before August 2021 was not a success story. It was fragile, aid-heavy, distorted, and deeply dependent on foreign assistance. Corruption was real, governance was uneven, and the economy survived more on international patience than internal strength. But despite all its flaws, it was still a state. It had institutions, however weak. It had systems, however inefficient. It had rules that could be navigated, challenged, and improved. Before 2021, Afghanistan’s economy was institutionally legible. Budgets existed. Ministries functioned. Salaries were paid with some regularity. The central bank operated within global financial norms. Private businesses, especially in telecom, construction, transport, and…