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Pakistan has released its National Security Policy 2022-2026, a document co-authored by the National Security Advisor Moeed Yusuf but acknowledging input from several government entities. The policy articulates what it sees as Pakistan’s vision and priorities and provides a detailed implementation framework. About half the...

Calls for a mandatory cooling-off period for babus before joining politics have revived after two senior babus in Uttar Pradesh took voluntary retirement (VRS) and decided to join politics, with an eye on the upcoming Assembly elections in the state. Hours after the model code...

Lakhdar Brahimi In August, the world watched in shock as the Western-backed Afghan government rapidly collapsed and the country spiraled into chaos, culminating in the Taliban’s takeover of the capital, Kabul, and return to power after nearly 20 years. Since then, Afghanistan has faded from...

Brahma Chellaney As the pandemic enters its third year, questions about COVID-19’s origins appear increasingly distant. But if we are to forestall another coronavirus pandemic in the twenty-first century, understanding the causes of the current one is imperative. Already, COVID-19 has caused more than 5.4...

India is now in the grip of the third wave of the CoVID-19 pandemic. The official data just released by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation offer a grim picture of the country’s economy ravaged by the pandemic. As projected by government statistics, India’s...

It is a chilling thought for any country to raise a contingent of suicide bombers as part of its regular armed forces. This is for the simple reason that suicide bombing cannot be a legitimate form of any defence system. It has always been a...

Novak Djokovic would have never thought he would have to play in an altogether different court in Melbourne – the court of law. January 10, Djokovic’s appeal against deportation would be heard and the court will decide whether he can defend his Australian Open Champion...

Some changes come up on us so slowly that the present generation does not take on the responsibility of the consequences. Climate change is the obvious issue that we can think of to illustrate this. One remembers phrases and words like ‘greenhouse gas’ and ‘chlorofluorocarbons’...

The secretary-level reshuffle, in which nine Central ministries and departments got new secretaries, is being depicted as an opportunity for upward mobility for 1990-batch IAS officers who were waiting for secretary-level postings at the Centre for a long time. However, people are still trying to...

Michael Lind Much remains to be learned about what happened in Washington, DC, January 6, 2021. But almost from the moment that rioters stormed the Capitol, it has been clear that America’s constitutional order resisted Donald Trump’s effort to subvert it. The available evidence suggests...