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Sep 25, 2026, 5:41 PM

Will Iran Join a Saudi-Pakistan-Turkey Pact: What Would It Mean for the Houthis?

’According to Fox Business, oil began the week at $102 a barrel, fell to $97 by midweek, and is settling at $92.5 toward the end of the week. The decline signals that the oil market currently expects diplomatic easing...

Sep 24, 2026, 11:51 PM

Indus Treaty: Pakistan’s Water Crisis Is Not India’s Responsibility

India cannot reasonably be held responsible for every failure of Pakistan's internal water governance. For decades, Pakistan has treated the Indus Waters Treaty as a fixed pillar of its relationship with India. Whenever New Delhi proposes a hydropower project or...

Sep 20, 2026, 4:31 PM

Houthis’ Threats and Pakistan’s Resolve

The recent threats from Yemen's Houthi movement towards Pakistan and Türkiye are hard to misinterpret. When Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a key figure in Ansar Allah, warned that Pakistan would face an “iron fist” if it intervened on behalf of Saudi...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 18, 2026, 5:16 AM

Israel Must Protect the Mecca Holy Sites

Fifth-century Yemen supplies the modern State of Israel with a vital historical precedent that Middle East analysts foolishly ignore. When the Himyarite Jewish king Abu Kariba As’ad marched to raze the Kaaba, two traveling rabbis halted the demolition by...

Purna Lal Chakma

Sep 12, 2026, 11:29 AM

Could Saudi Arabia Collapse and Would Islamists Fill the Vacuum?

$Saudi Arabia under growing regional pressure, with the empty throne symbolizing the question of who could fill the vacuum if the monarchy ever fractured. AI-created by the author.$

Could Saudi Arabia collapse? At the moment, the answer appears to be no. The kingdom still has enormous financial resources, powerful security institutions, substantial oil wealth and a ruling family that retains firm control of the state. But history suggests...

Sergio Restelli

Sep 7, 2026, 4:23 AM

Pakistan’s $3 Billion Illusion: the Federation Fractures at Home

Pakistan has reason to feel that its international fortunes have changed. A country that only a few years ago appeared perilously close to sovereign default has returned to international capital markets, improved relations with Washington, strengthened ties with Gulf...

Purna Lal Chakma

Sep 6, 2026, 9:38 AM

Was 2024 India’s Third Strategic Loss in Bangladesh?

India-Bangladesh relations through three strategic setbacks in 1975, 1997 and 2024, with the unfinished Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord, growing Bangladesh-Pakistan relations and wider implications for Israel symbolized on a geopolitical chessboard. Created by author using AI.

India may have suffered three major strategic setbacks in Bangladesh since helping the country win independence in 1971. The first came in 1975, when Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated and the political order closest to New Delhi collapsed. The...

Mansoor H. Laghari

Sep 6, 2026, 7:08 AM

Why Don’t More Muslims Speak Up?

Why Don’t More Muslims Speak Up? The Answer Is Harder Than the Question “Why don’t Muslims speak up?” I hear this question constantly, particularly from Jewish friends confronting antisemitism, Islamist extremism and the glorification of terrorist organizations. It is a legitimate question. Muslims...

Purna Lal Chakma

Sep 5, 2026, 10:10 AM

Did Pakistan Defeat India in the Chittagong Hill Tracts?

An AI-generated editorial illustration of PCJSS President Jyotirindra Bodhipriya “Santu” Larma and former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina around the 1997 Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord. The open agreement, surrendered rifle, white dove and Indigenous representatives symbolize PCJSS’s choice of peace and hope for a better Bangladesh. Created by the author using AI; not a historical photograph.

In December 1997, India appeared to secure an important political success without firing a shot. The Bangladesh government and the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti, or PCJSS, signed the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord, ending more than two decades of...

Purna Lal Chakma

Aug 31, 2026, 5:43 PM

Could One Makkah Pact Clause Put All of India at Risk?

Illustration created by the author using AI: A conceptual map showing how a hypothetical Makkah Pact clause could affect India’s security map if Bangladesh joins the pact. The image is illustrative and not a claim about the confirmed terms of the agreement.

Bangladesh does not need India’s permission to join. But one unknown wartime-access rule could force New Delhi to rethink its entire eastern security map. Bangladesh’s possible entry into the Makkah Pact has become one of the most hotly debated security...

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