Reimagining South Asia
SOUTH Asia stands on the frontier of the climate crisis, and on the edge of its own undoing. Home to nearly two billion people, this region is sandwiched between geopolitical…
Disruptive technologies and South Asia
The strategic landscape of South Asia is undergoing its most profound transformation since the overt nuclearisation of India and Pakistan in 1998. Emerging Disruptive Technologies (EDTs) – artificial intelligence, autonomous…
Pakistan in South Asia’s democracy
WHEN people talk about South Asia, they reach for the usual clichés: nuclear flashpoint, poverty, migration, communal tensions. What they rarely acknowledge is something far more hopeful — this region…
South Asia’s climate quandary
South Asia, home to nearly two billion people, is no longer peering at climate risk through the telescope of 2050; it is living it now. Heatwave clusters, glacial-lake outburst floods…
The Great South Asian oddity
It was a scene soaked in irony, as if history itself had decided to play a prank on South Asia. In New Delhi, the Afghan foreign minister – representing a…
South Asia monsoon: climate change’s dangerous impact on lifeline rains
South Asia’s annual monsoon rains sustain more than a billion people, but climate change is making them increasingly erratic and deadly, with poor infrastructure only exacerbating the impact. Farming, water…
Asia’s pledge to boost US farm imports may redraw trade flows
Southeast Asian nations are set to reshape global grains and oilseed trade flows through US trade deals that include raising agriculture purchases, with increased American shipments displacing Australian, Canadian and…
Plastic pollution plague blights Asia
Kulsum Beghum sorts waste at a landfill in Dhaka. Her blood contains 650 microplastic particles per millilitre, according to an analysis funded by a waste pickers’ union. “Plastic is not…
Eurasia’s evolving architecture
The recently concluded Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin has once again underlined how global politics is moving steadily away from traditional Euro-Atlantic frameworks towards Eurasian-led mechanisms of cooperation,…
Trump’s South Asia strategy
On Wednesday, July 30, 2025, Donald Trump took to Truth Social to declare that the US and Pakistan had “concluded a deal … we will work together on developing their…
