Saudi brittleness and the real US-Saudi-Israel dynamic

27 Sep 201915 Nov 2019

Resharing this December 2018 article by myself commenting on frequent overestimation of Saudi power by some folk, and since then there's been several more signs of Saudi strategic-military ineptitude and…

Putting Pakistan’s ‘Israel Question’ into geostrategic context

18 Sep 201925 Oct 2019

Published originally by the Islamabad Policy Institute on 18 September 2019. Informed discourse on Israel, the Middle East and current geopolitical affairs pertaining to Israel is not stimulating the current…

Should Pakistan expect US withdrawal from Afghanistan?

16 Sep 201925 Oct 2019

I'm resharing this piece from a few months earlier where I expressed skepticism over the US-Taliban peace talks' prospects. This is founded in some very consequential, very long-term and very…

How the current Kashmir crisis presents a strategic opportunity for Iran

19 Aug 201925 Oct 2019

Posted originally to Eurasia Future on 19 August 2019. India de facto annexed Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir earlier this month and heightened military tussles at the border with Pakistan have…

Russia’s special credentials as Israel’s ‘Deal of the Century’ backer

29 Jul 201925 Oct 2019

Posted originally to Surkhiyan.pk on 29 July 2019. Russia’s facilitation of a still-aggressive Israel in preference over ‘allies’ Iran and Syria has become gradually more visible and acknowledged in the…

The Pakistan-India info-war and the Israeli X Factor

12 Jul 201925 Oct 2019

Posted originally to Regional Rapport on 12 July 2019. Regardless of how weak India’s media propaganda might be, Pakistan still has much to do in gaining the upper hand against…

From Camp David to ‘Deal of the Century’: Smokescreens for Israel

2 Jul 20192 Nov 2019

Posted originally to Surkhiyan.pk on 2 July 2019. Jared Kushner’s ‘Deal of the Century’ seeks to make matters worse for the Palestinians, going by publicized leaked details of it. It…

Imran Khan’s ‘anti-Islamophobia’ narrative and its pitfalls

19 Jun 201923 Sep 2019

Posted originally to Surkhiyan.com on 19 June 2019. Collective ideology drives people and holds large, diverse nations together. From the perspective of security – which is Pakistan’s utmost priority for…

What did Pakistan gain from the Kartarpur initiative?

15 Jun 201921 Jun 2019

Posted originally to CRSS on 15 June 2019. Pakistan’s decision late last year to build the visa-free Kartarpura Corridor for Indian Sikh pilgrims received much positivity as a noble peace…

The deceptive inadequacy of the ‘Israel-Palestine conflict’ label

7 Jun 201925 Oct 2019

Posted originally to CRSS on 1 June 2019. To treat the ‘Israel-Palestine conflict’as one in a long list of bilateral country disputes to be found in the modern age attaches…