Author: Syed Sharfuddin

The threat of a full-blown war between Pakistan and India following the barbaric terrorist attack in Pahalgam in the District of Anantnag in the Indian Administered Kashmir on April 22, 2025 seems to have been dissipated, at least for the time being, following the timely counsel of the U.N. secretary general and allies of both countries, in particular China, Russia, the U.S., U.K., Türkiye and Saudi Arabia urging Pakistan and India to exercise restraint. Although Indian media, retired Indian military and intelligence officers, and political leaders from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and other political parties blamed Pakistan within…

Since Aug. 5, 2024, Bangladesh has closed the door on the exploitation of the country’s financial and economic resources by a corrupt cabal of the ruling Awami League (AL) government through state-perpetrated violence and manipulation of Bangladesh’s electoral and criminal justice system. One uncertain thing in this equation is the incoming U.S. President Donald Trump’s close ties with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose country has lost over 15 years of political and economic investment and goodwill in Bangladesh. Trump’s disapproval of the chaos that visited Bangladesh in the popular uprising against the then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in November…