Gul i Ayesha Bhatti

Strategic stubbornness & illusion of power
- By Gul i Ayesha Bhatti
- June 2, 2025
History reveals that a nation’s true character emerges not through loud declarations but wise actions. In the May 2025 India-Pakistan flare-up, India’s launch of Operation…

Strategic stubbornness & illusion of power
- By Gul i Ayesha Bhatti
- May 29, 2025
History reveals that a nation’s true character emerges not through loud declarations but wise actions. In the May 2025 India-Pakistan flare-up, India’s launch of Operation…

Russia-Ukraine talks 2.0
- By Gul i Ayesha Bhatti
- May 18, 2025
PEACE is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it by peaceful means, wrote Ronald Reagan. As the Ukraine crisis enters…

The future of Ukraine
- By Gul i Ayesha Bhatti
- March 5, 2025
THE geopolitical landscape surrounding Ukraine is undergoing a significant transformation, highlighted by recent high-level diplomatic engagements between the United States and Russia in Riyadh, Saudi…

USAID to no aid
- By Gul i Ayesha Bhatti
- February 26, 2025
THE decision to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is a watershed moment in American foreign policy. For over six decades, USAID…

Kashmir’s post-370 turmoil
- By Gul i Ayesha Bhatti
- August 6, 2024
AS the five-year mark of the revocation of Article 370 passed on August 5, 2024, the region of Jammu and Kashmir continues to reel from…

Bangladesh’s youth challenge quota inequality
- By Gul i Ayesha Bhatti
- July 21, 2024
THE streets of Dhaka and other major cities in Bangladesh have been engulfed in violence and unrest as student protests against the government’s job…

The future of SCO
- By Gul i Ayesha Bhatti
- July 10, 2024
FOLLOWING the conclusion of the 24th Summit of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Astana, Kazakhstan, and the adoption of the…

The Wolfowitz legacy in US-Russia affairs
- By Gul i Ayesha Bhatti
- March 20, 2024
THIRTY-five years ago, President Gorbachev sought Jeffrey Sachs, a renowned US economic adviser, for his financial expertise on economic reforms in the Soviet Union. Sachs,…

International solidarity crumbles on Kashmir
- By Gul i Ayesha Bhatti
- February 6, 2024
THE preservation of stability and the assertion of dominance by superpowers are inextricably linked to their ability to exert control over critical geostrategic regions and…