Pakistan has long relied on international financial aid, yet evidence shows funds often divert from social needs to military expenditure, exacerbating instability and terrorism. Despite numerous multilayered aid agreements, governance failures and corruption prevent developmental progress, leading to increased militarization and elite capture, leaving the populace impoverished.
By N. C. Bipindra After India’s Operation Sindoor on Pakistan and its terror hubs to avenge Pahalgam terror victims, the overwhelming assessment of global strategic affairs community, military experts and international media is that New Delhi has had a decisive victory over Islamabad. As India began its precision […]
By N. C. Bipindra for FirstPost With the Sheikh Hasina regime’s fall in Bangladesh and the complete ostracisation of the Awami League, it may appear that the second (now largest) party—the Bangladesh Nationalist Party—has made the most significant political gains. However, the political scenario six months after Hasina’s […]
(Editor’s Note: The views expressed are that of the authors. For the writer’s other interests, read the credit line at the end of the article.) By Dr Jagmeet Bawa The demise of democratically elected government in Afghanistan and the rise of theocratic Taliban is a major national security […]
New Delhi: Pakistan has been eliminating its Sikh population for decades through killings, rapes, abductions and forced marriages of young women, yet is funding and fueling Khalistani terrorism and separatist movement globally to achieve it sinister plans to break up India, a Canadian expert, who authored a recently […]
By Deepak Sharma New Delhi: India’s pharmaceutical industry, with $20 billion annual sales, has joined the global race for the COVID-19 vaccine, as three Indian drug-makers announced their plans to initiate late-stage clinical trials in the country. Since the beginning of this year, the world is reeling under […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: India today slammed Pakistan for adopting a farcical approach in the case of Kulbhushan Jadhav, an Indian national sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on allegations of spying and terrorism, and charged that the western neighbour was defying the International Court […]