Indian media outlet Republic TV wrongly reported that Russia will back New Delhi’s effort to have Masood Azhar declared a “global terrorist” by the UNSC because Minister of Trade and Industry Denis Manturov who was quoted never actually said such a thing and instead only repeated predictable platitudes about his country’s willingness to support its partner’s…
Looking back at the one-day — actually, a little over half a day — first state visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to Delhi on February 20 at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the question surges instinctively: What was it all about? It seems like looking for…
Many have dismissed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s Asia tour to Pakistan, India, and China as nothing more than a post-Khashoggi photo-op to shore up international support, but it’s actually about much more than that because of its religious, economic, and geopolitical dimensions. There’s little doubt that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s (MbS)…
In many countries, the gap between social media rhetoric and mainstream media rhetoric is often quite vast. In India however, on both mainstream and social media, there is a race to the bottom in terms of how absurdly hyper-nationalistic one can be when it comes to scapegoating internal strife on India’s neighbours Pakistan and China….
The transnational region of Balochistan risks becoming another Kurdistan-like fault line as long as Iran continues to be tricked into worsening relations with Pakistan, with the worst-case scenario being that the Golden Ring’s weakest link undermines the entire geopolitical project that it has such a serious stake in securing. “Blood Borders” Iran’s uncharacteristically bellicose rhetoric…
The facts Hours before a plane carrying Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and de-facto ruler Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), along with a Saudi delegation of 200 men landed in Islamabad, Iran formally summoned Pakistan’s Ambassador in Tehran. According to Iran, the summoning of Pakistan’s Ambassador had nothing to do with the MBS visit to Pakistan during…
