Salman Rafi Sheikh

Baluchistan, the energy rich western province of Pakis- tan, has been experiencing violence and conflict in the form of insurgency for many decades. Although this insurgency has partly resulted from the socio-economic deprivation...

A lot is being written about the “long-term” and “short-term” consequences of an otherwise ‘minor’ looking diplomatic incident between the US and India. At one of the spectrum, some have interpreted it in terms of a possible downfall of their bi-lateral alliance...

The political discourse on Afghanistan’s future is somehow not merely about how many military personnel the US would finally decide to place in Afghanistan. It is equally about the purpose(s they are deployed to attain. In other words, numbers, in this case, don’t matter...