Ameer Abdullah Khan

Modi’s self-made quagmire

KASHMIR, the nuclear flash point, was again in the global limelight for the same old reasons. This time, the crisis reached an unprecedented level of…

The submissive strongman

FEW sayings capture diplomacy as well as Churchill’s remark, “Diplomacy is the art of telling someone to go to hell in such a manner that…

A mirage of empty promises

The renewed zest for multilateral cooperation once again brought the Peoples of the United Nations together in New York for the Summit of the…

India’s rogue state actions

HOW deep must a nation sink into rogue behaviour to orchestrate covert assassination campaigns on foreign soil targeting both adversaries and allies? What level…

The imbalancing act

MARK Lawrence’s grim dark fantasy, “Prince of Thrones” narrates the dark tale of Jorg Ancrath, a prince who impishly uses deception, fear and propaganda to…