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7 Pacts, Indian Sri Lanka, PM Narendra Modi, Anura Kumara Dissanayake

Strategic Reset

The Indian Ocean, once a relatively quiet arena of global politics, is fast becoming the new chessboard of strategic influence.

Red Line

In the chaos of war, truth is often the first casualty. Yet even amid destruction and desperation, there remains a universal expectation: that humanitarian workers ~ paramedics, rescue teams, and aid convoys ~ should be protected, not targeted.

Terror games

Within Pakistan, the unforgiving regions of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan have had an especially violent ‘gun-culture’, for a long time. Bloody, inter-tribal, anti- ‘foreigner’ and familial feuds are a way of life, and often the family sentinels peer at their neighbours through rifle ports.