Beyond SAARC? The Limits of Pakistan’s India-Excluded South Asian Vision
In December 2025, Pakistan advocated for a new South Asian bloc without India’s participation. The vision was articulated by Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister at the Islamabad Conclave in December 2025. The message was clear: expand the Pakistan-Bangladesh-China trilateral into a broader South Asian bloc excluding India to foster cooperation on trade, connectivity,…
Beyond Ceasefires: Gaza Board of Peace and the Limits of Technocratic Peace
U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict” has been sold as the exit ramp from Israeli-unleashed ruins of Gaza following the 7 October 2023 attacks by the Palestinian Hamas. It is an externally supervised peace plan pairing ceasefire monitoring with demilitarisation, interim administration, and a reconstruction drive managed through an international…
Survival or Hegemony? Why Iran Can’t Kill its Nuclear Ambition
In the summer of 2025, at the behest of Israel, the US launched massive air strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites- Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. The air strikes were a first in decades involving the US and Iran directly. The war of words followed and so did propaganda machines. The war between regional military powers…
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