Saudi Arabia and Pakistan formalised their longstanding security cooperation through the Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement on September 17. Though the agreement is primarily being seen […]
Month: September 2025
The Anatomy of Saudi-Pakistan Defense Agreement: The Timing, the Message and the Noise
In an argument on what collective security really means, the influential realist thinker Hans Morgenthau remarked, it means “One for all and all for one”. This […]
The Qatar Strike and the Illusions of Gulf Security
It is often said that the only predictability about the Middle East’s geopolitics is its unpredictability, and yet what has remained remarkably consistent is the […]
Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims: A Decade of Stateless Suffering and International Indifference
It has been over eight years since the skies over Rakhine state in Myanmar were lit with the smouldering fires of Rohingya Muslim villages, as […]
Review of Ahmed Rashid’s “Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia”
As the United States withdrew its troops from Afghanistan in 2021 after two decades of fighting the Afghan Taliban following the 2001 invasion, it ironically […]
Russia-Taliban Relations: A Strategic Embrace or a Risky Gamble?
On July 3rd, Russia announced its decision to formally recognise the Afghan Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) regime as the country’s legitimate government. This […]
The Forgetting of Being: Ibtisam Azem and the Lived World of Palestine
In his seminal non-fiction The Art of the Novel, Milan Kundera highlights Edmund Husserl’s expounding of ‘Crisis of European Humanity’, holding that it was for […]