Opinion

Opinion | Why A 'Bangladesh' Proposal By Turkish Media Should Worry India

A recent article in Turkish media illustrates how Ankara is turning into a strategic threat for India and its neighbourhood

Opinion | Saudi Arabia Has Money, Missiles, And America. Why Is It Still So Scared?

What the NATO-like pact essentially points to, under its modest packaging of 'Islamic brotherhood', are growing fears of the Saudi Kingdom.

Opinion | One Crisis, 4 Wins: How China Might Just Have Hit A Geopolitical Jackpot

Oil to yuan, China's fortunes have only multiplied, thanks to others. But why grudge it the advantages it has been handed almost on a platter?

Opinion | 11 Years Later, Houthis Have Returned To Finish Unfinished Business With Pakistan

Pakistan has been here before, and the last time, it barely escaped.

Opinion | US Attack On Chabahar, And Why It's Time India Stopped Playing By Others' Whims

As the US destroys Chabahar in Iran, one thing is clear: India cannot wait eternally for the whims of others to do what is vital for its own interests.

Opinion | Is Saudi Arabia Now Quietly Switching Sides In US-Iran War?

The Saudi presence at the Ayatollah's funeral as well as its refusal to join America's 'Project Freedom' points to a quiet shift away from its ally, the US.

Opinion | Pakistan Might Just Be Getting A Bit Too Confident - This Time, With Afghanistan

For Islamabad, its successes at mediation notwithstanding, toppling the Taliban may turn out to be a far more humbling experience. But then Pakistan, strangely, is known to be suicidal in some ways.

Opinion | The Post-War Middle East May Already Be Splitting Into Two New 'Camps'

We may see a closer Qatar-Oman-Iran trilateral partnership emerging in the coming days, while another grouping already in the making is of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt.

Opinion | Why Pakistan Is Becoming Harder To Isolate - Despite India's Push

Pakistan's willingness to sell itself to the highest bidder explains its curious positioning in the world. India's only option now is to get creative as it tries to isolate it globally.

Opinion | Hormuz Is Reopening, But It May Never Matter Quite The Same Way Again

Hormuz may never carry the traffic it had prior to the war, and its significance for global supply chains may be diminished, to an extent. Here's why

Opinion | A New Sunni Bloc Is Taking Shape, And Pak May Be Its Biggest Winner

If the idea does come to fruition, then such a bloc would have been a long time in making. And it would have a formidable spread, going all the way from the Arabian Sea to the Mediterranean, controlling strategic ports, shipping and maritime routes.

Opinion | PM Modi Lands In UAE Amidst A Saudi 'Complication'

The UAE-Saudi rivalry is no longer just a Middle East story. It's becoming India's strategic headache.

Opinion | To Understand UAE's OPEC Exit, Go Back In Time - To A Leaked 'Cable'

Surprising as the UAE's decision is, it is also fully in keeping with its pattern of breaking with regional, in particular, Arab consensus on many issues and forging an independent path.

Opinion | India Is Losing A Multibillion-Dollar 'Asset', Thanks To Trump

At a grand G20 ceremony in Delhi, India unveiled its most ambitious trade corridor. Halfway across the world, forces beyond its control are now derailing that vision.

Opinion | How Iran Ceasefire Helps Pakistan Fix A 10-Year-Old 'Mess' With Saudi

The debate around Pakistan's 'mediation' efforts continues. But the fact remains that the country is in the geopolitical limelight for appropriate reasons after a long, long time.

Opinion | 450 Missile, 2,000 Drone Attacks Later, Why Is UAE Still Not Fighting Iran?

The UAE is Iran's second-largest trading partner. But it is also the one Iran has attacked the most heavily since February 28. The reason goes beyond just today's conflict.

Opinion | Why 2 Gulf States Want Iran War To Continue - Even As They're Battered By It

If Trump withdraws from this war, the Saudis and other Gulf countries would be left to face the music, with an angrier, fiercer, and possibly more vengeful Iran.

Opinion | The Curious Reason 2 Iran 'Proxies' Haven't Joined The War Against Israel

The silence from two of its strongest groups may possibly hinge on two factors.

Opinion | 'We Protect America, Not Vice Versa': Inside Gulf's Growing Frustration With Trump

Arab states are increasingly waking up to the bitter truth that the US compromised the region's safety for Israel's war goals, despite millions of dollars spent on security arrangements.

Opinion | A Dark Truth: Why Iran, Ukraine Get Bombed, But Pak, Israel, N Korea Don't

With the Iran blitz, the message to smaller and military states is shaping up to be this: 'build the damn bomb - if not legally, then the way Pakistan did in the 1970s'.