Under the previous military regime, Myanmar was known as a “diplomatic graveyard”, chiefly for the UN’s failed missions to the country on issues ranging from humanitarian assistance to national reconciliation between the junta’s old boys and their democratic opponents—primarily the now ousted and detained leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. That bad reputation persists for […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka is in a deep economic crisis with runaway food prices resulting in the declaration of an economic emergency by the government of President Gotbaya Rajapaksa. A senior army officer has been appointed to oversee the distribution of essential goods. It has sparked concerns in some quarters about army rule. In this […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Chinese apps banned last year in the wake of clashes in Ladakh, are making a stealthy come back. So whether it’s PUB-G or TikTok, both are back under different names with different IP addresses to conceal their common Chinese ownership. The alarming issue here is the Chinese government’s crackdown on its tech companies […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The ball for this piece was set rolling during a conversation with Nandan Unnikrishnan of the Observer Research Foundation. As he pointed out, despite having three consulates in three key cities of Afghanistan (apart from of course the embassy in Kabul), India appeared to have no idea that the Ghani government would collapse […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The world’s top intelligence and security honchos were in Delhi this week for talks, predominantly, it appears, on developments in Afghanistan. The head of Britain’s Mi6 agency slipped into the city quietly and was gone before the media woke up to his presence. The CIA chief William Burns also came down from Kabul […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Ibraheem Bahiss, Consultant & Afghanistan Expert, International Crisis Group in analysis with Amitabh P Revi. The panellist discusses the Taliban’s tilt towards a Pakistan-China orbit, how Beijing is warming up cautiously, the potential ideological blowback within the Taliban to Chinese aid and interest on loans, regional players wary about giving […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Qatar remains the power broker between the Taliban and the rest of the world and it’s role will be crucial in determining the fate of the group and Afghanistan in the days aheadRead More
DOHA: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in an exclusive interview to TOLO news Head Lotfullah Najafizada says, “My hope and, beyond hope, expectation is that the future government of Afghanistan will uphold those basic rights. And if it does, then that’s a government that we can work with. If it doesn’t, we won’t.” Blinken […]Read More
Doha: An Exclusive Interview of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken with TOLO News Head Lotfullah Najafizada. Coming up on StratNews on September 9, 2021 at 10 AMRead More
NEW DELHI: Three weeks after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, they have announced an interim government. And contrary to their claims, the government is anything but inclusive. Of the 33 names announced in the Cabinet, many have UN sanctions against them, and some are designated terrorists. Not a single woman figures on that list […]Read More
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