Salman Rafi Sheikh

Last few weeks have seen the Iranian diplomats and top officials engaging in a lot of diplomatic activity in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq and Syria, marking a systematically built web of relations that Iran is building as part of a policy based upon what its supreme leader…

While the recent Indo-Pak military stand-off did turn into actual hostilities and a small air-war as well, the way major powers---specifically, the U.S., Russia and China---responded to the crisis reveals how their respective responses not only reflected the existing geo-political…

Last two weeks saw Saudi Arabi’s Mohammad bin Salman (MBS visiting Asia—Pakistan, India and China— for the first time ever. Promises of investment were made, signalling how Saudi Arabia was pushing towards expanding its economy globally. Although the visit seems to have been…