By late 2025, Bangladesh is confronting one of the gravest internal crises since its independence. The interim administration led by Muhammad Yunus, installed in August 2024 amid political tumult in Bangladesh, has overseen...

The partition of British India in 1947 created a state divided by more than a thousand miles of Indian territory West Pakistan (present-day Pakistan) and East Bengal (later East Pakistan, now Bangladesh). This...

Vice Admiral Rajesh Pendharkar, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command, visited Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) on Thursday to assess the progress of key naval shipbuilding and refit projects. The visit underscored the strong...

On 8 October 2025, a defence commentator and retired Indian Army officer released a YouTube video analysing recent statements made by India’s Chief of the Army Staff. He described the COAS’s remarks as...

When Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif travelled to Washington recently, he was flanked not by his foreign minister or aides, but visibly by Field Marshal Asim Munir, Pakistan’s army chief. The image is striking:...

When the Seventh Central Pay Commission submitted its report in 2015, one anomaly stood out: soldiers posted to the Siachen Glacier, the world’s harshest battlefield, were awarded a fixed “Risk and Hardship Allowance”...

Hong Kong’s Article 23 legislation has become a weapon of transnational repression, extending Beijing’s coercive reach far beyond Chinese territory. Enacted in March 2024 as the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance, the law represents...

In a decision that's flown mostly under the radar but is raising eyebrows among regional analysts, Somalia has signed yet another long-term military deal with a foreign nation Pakistan. On August 28, 2025,...

Pakistan’s new Hangor-class submarines are being sold as a symbol of maritime renewal. The reality is far less flattering. The programme entrenches a parallel military-commercial ecosystem that thrives on secrecy, captures rents from...

Bangladesh’s interim government is using arbitrary arrests as a tool of political control. For the past year, from the time it has been in power, the regime has targeted people for their political...

Pakistan’s Navy welfare conglomerate, Baharia Foundation, illustrates a revolving door in which senior officers leave command posts and step into corporate suites. The Foundation openly identifies retired vice admirals as its managing directors,...

On 14 August 2024, mobs in Khulna looted and set fire to the home of a Hindu businessman, leaving his family homeless and several neighbouring shops destroyed. Sadly, it was not an isolated...