(By Khalid Masood) On 25 July 2025, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi descended on the Maldives, brandishing a $565-million credit line and launching free trade talks to seize control of this strategic Indian Ocean archipelago. Cloaked in celebrations for the Maldives’ 60th independence anniversary, Modi’s Maldives gambit spreads over two-day visit. It exposes India’s ruthless…
(By Quratulain Khalid) On 19 July 2025, Chinese Premier Li Qiang launched the world’s largest hydropower dam on the Yarlung Zangbo River, known as the Brahmaputra in India, a $168 billion megaproject that redefines South Asia’s geopolitical order. This colossal initiative, dwarfing the Three Gorges Dam, strengthens China’s control over vital water resources while bolstering…
(By Khalid Masood) What’s Really Wrong with Indian Aviation? India’s aviation sector, a cesspool of incompetence, has racked up a staggering toll of crashes, casting serious doubt on whether Indians are fit to operate aircraft. From 2000 to 2025, the Indian Air Force (IAF) and civil airlines have suffered catastrophic losses, exposing a nation incapable…
(Mohsin Tanveer) The Dalai Lama succession dispute exposes India’s blatant hypocrisy, preaching Tibetan self-determination while crushing Kashmiri, Sikh, and eastern state aspirations. The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, a global symbol of peace exiled in India since 1959, declared in July 2025 that his successor would be chosen in a free country, defying China’s authoritarian…
(By Khalid Masood) While India celebrates its Tatas and Ambanis, and the world lauds Musk and Gates, Pakistan reveres Syed Babar Ali, a luminary whose legacy eclipses mere wealth. Unlike global tycoons amassing fortunes, he crafted institutions and industries that bolstered Pakistan’s self-reliance. For instance, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Packages Limited, and Tetra…
(By Khalid Masood) Amit Shah, India’s Home Minister, stands as a menacing figure, poised to inherit Narendra Modi’s throne despite feigned hints at retiring to study Hindu scriptures. His seamless ascent, unmarred by convictions despite a litany of accusations, including murder, illegal surveillance, and communal incitement, exposes India’s corrupt judicial and electoral systems as a…
(By Quratulain Khalid) India’s self-styled Vishwaguru facade crumbles under U.S. pressure, as President Donald Trump delivers stinging rebukes through tariff threats and humiliating deportations. India’s reckless reliance on Russian oil, coupled with its military setbacks in the May 2025 Indo-Pakistan conflict, exposes its strategic folly. Meanwhile, Russia offers India Su-57 stealth fighters and S-400 systems,…
(Ayesha Mohsin) The United States grapples with a broken immigration system, leaving millions of undocumented immigrants in limbo. On 15 July 2025, Representatives Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) and Veronica Escobar (D-TX) introduced the Dignity Act of 2025 (H.R. 4393), a bipartisan effort to overhaul border security, legalize undocumented residents, and streamline legal immigration. Consequently, this…
(By Ayesha Mohsin) In July 2025, a cloudburst in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Diamer district unleashed devastating flash floods and landslides, sweeping away vehicles, blocking highways, and claiming at least five lives, including four tourists and one local. Over 200 tourists were stranded as monsoon rains and glacial melt, exacerbated by climate change, ravaged northern Pakistan’s scenic valleys….
Book in BriefIncredible and Shining India!Danish Javeed | Hurst, 2024 | 320 pp. A Mirror Held to a RepublicDanish Javeed’s latest work arrives not as a conventional chronicle but as a reckoning—a series of refracted testimonies that force the reader to stare back at a republic busy rewriting its own reflection. Where earlier histories of…
