South Asia

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the subcontinent's defining tensions. Coverage spans nuclear brinkmanship, cross-border conflict, water rights disputes, the politics of religious nationalism and the widening gap between democratic promise and democratic practice.

Operation Sindoor: Fifty-Nine Lawmakers. Zero Answers.

Trump claimed credit for the ceasefire 80 times. Modi never contradicted him once. India sent seven multi-party parliamentary delegations — 59 members, 32 countries and the EU headquarters — to make one argument: Pakistan is a state sponsor of terrorism. Not one government said what India asked.

By Sunny Peter

/ 7 May 2026

Operation Sindoor: Fifty-Nine Lawmakers. Zero Answers.

The Slow Siege

China has renamed 27 places in Arunachal Pradesh. India calls it cartographic aggression. The pattern — rename, claim, assert, repeat — is familiar from the South China Sea. Beijing does not need to fire a shot to advance its territorial position. It just needs to keep renaming.

By Sunny Peter

/ 15 Apr 2026

A Table in Islamabad

The delegations arrived. The table was set. Nobody agreed what was on it. Iran’s ten-point proposal exists in two versions — one in Farsi, one in English — and they say different things. Exhaustion sometimes achieves what reason cannot. But exhaustion without clarity is not diplomacy.

By Sunny Peter

/ 10 Apr 2026

The War Pakistan Made

Khawaja Asif declared open war against the Taliban — the organisation Pakistan’s own intelligence services built, funded and protected for thirty years. Islamabad cannot bomb its way out of a problem it spent three decades constructing. What changed is not the enemy. The machine turned around.

By Sunny Peter

/ 7 Apr 2026

The Indispensable Bad Actor

Pakistan seeded the nuclear crisis it is now asked to resolve. Abdul Qadeer Khan transferred centrifuge designs to Iran. Washington pardoned Islamabad without consequence. Now the same Washington routes its Iran diplomacy through Pakistan. The bad actor designation expires when you become useful.

By Sunny Peter

/ 30 Mar 2026

The Ground India Lost

India had a democratic tradition worth defending. What has been surrendered — press freedom, judicial independence, minority protections — was not lost in a coup. It was given away incrementally, each compromise justified by the next election. The ground, once lost, is hard to recover.

By Sunny Peter

/ 19 Mar 2026

Kabul Under Pressure: India's Diplomatic Gambit and Pakistan's Airstrikes Reveal Shifting Power Dynamics

India’s quiet engagement with Afghanistan and Pakistan’s airstrikes against TTP positions inside Afghan territory reveal a triangle of competing interests. The Taliban sit at the centre, playing each neighbour against the other with considerable tactical skill.

By Sunny Peter

/ 10 Oct 2025

Kabul Under Pressure: India's Diplomatic Gambit and Pakistan's Airstrikes Reveal Shifting Power Dynamics

Afghanistan's Digital Darkness: How the World Learned to Stop Worrying and Forget the Taliban

The Taliban have governed Afghanistan for years now. The international community's attention has moved on. What remains is a population — particularly women and girls — living under one of the most restrictive governments on earth, mostly out of sight of those who promised to care.

By Sunny Peter

/ 1 Oct 2025

Afghanistan's Digital Darkness: How the World Learned to Stop Worrying and Forget the Taliban

Canadian Government Admits: Khalistani Extremist Groups Continue Receiving Domestic Financial Support

Ottawa’s admission that Khalistani extremist networks operate and fundraise on Canadian soil vindicates what New Delhi has argued for years. It also exposes a pattern of host-state tolerance — where diaspora political sensitivities have constrained law enforcement response.

By Sunny Peter

/ 7 Sep 2025

Canadian Government Admits: Khalistani Extremist Groups Continue Receiving Domestic Financial Support

Trump's India-Pakistan Mediation Claims: A Diplomatic Dispute Over Trade and Territory

Donald Trump claimed credit for mediating between India and Pakistan. New Delhi immediately disputed it. The exchange reveals how Washington now approaches South Asia — as a transactional space where mediation claims serve domestic political purposes more than diplomatic ones.

By Sunny Peter

/ 27 Aug 2025

Trump's India-Pakistan Mediation Claims: A Diplomatic Dispute Over Trade and Territory

India Offers Flood Alert to Pakistan: Catastrophe Diplomacy Amid Crisis

India’s decision to share flood alert data with Pakistan during a humanitarian emergency signals something worth noting: even the most strained bilateral relationships retain a floor. Catastrophe diplomacy is not friendship. But it is evidence that pragmatism has not entirely expired.

By Sunny Peter

/ 26 Aug 2025

India Offers Flood Alert to Pakistan: Catastrophe Diplomacy Amid Crisis