menu_open Columnists
Abdul Basit

Abdul Basit

The News International

We use cookies to provide some features and experiences in QOSHE

More information  .  Close

Hajj, Umrah, and the Soft Power of Saudi Arabia

Hajj, Umrah, and the Soft Power of Saudi Arabia

In the hills and valleys around Mecca, there is a yearly occurrence that has no counterpart in human experience. Millions of people who follow Islam...

27.05.2026 30

Paradigm Shift

Abdul Basit

Hybrid Hydropolitics and the Concept of “Water Start”

Coercion does not necessarily arrive with soldiers and weapons in the grammar of interstate conflicts. More frequently, and with growing complexity,...

22.05.2026 60

Paradigm Shift

Abdul Basit

The Pleasure of Procrastination

16.05.2026 90

Paradigm Shift

Abdul Basit

Rivers of Pakistan: Water Security in Himalayan Geopolitics

08.05.2026 80

Paradigm Shift

Abdul Basit

The Data Grab: How Big Tech is Running a New Colonialism

The European countries met in Berlin in 1884 and used a map to divide the African continent among themselves. They distributed the continent’s...

30.04.2026 40

Paradigm Shift

Abdul Basit

How Do Social Media and AI Shape What We Believe?

When was the last time you changed your opinion about something significant, such as a political stance, a social mindset, or a belief about how the...

24.04.2026 70

Paradigm Shift

Abdul Basit

The Notebook That Thinks: NotebookLM and the Future of Research

Let’s say you are composing a thesis: twelve news stories, three government reports, forty-seven scholarly papers, and a few YouTube lectures have...

23.04.2026 30

Paradigm Shift

Abdul Basit

The Politics Behind Dhurandhar

At the core of India’s current situation is a striking discrepancy: the country’s most commercially successful film franchise is devoted to the...

17.04.2026 60

Paradigm Shift

Abdul Basit

China’s Shenyang J-35A and the Remaking of Global Air Power

In November 2024, on the grey runway of the Zhuhai Airshow in southern China, the world got its first direct glimpse of an aircraft that had been...

10.04.2026 30

Paradigm Shift

Abdul Basit

The No Kings Movement and America’s Democratic Reckoning

Donald Trump turned 79 on the morning of June 14, 2025. His critics noted that he had organised a military procession through Washington that included...

06.04.2026 50

Paradigm Shift

Abdul Basit

US strategic shift marginalises India

THE United States has unveiled its 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS), a quadrennial report last published in 2022, which diverges significantly...

15.02.2026 20

Pakistan Observer

Abdul Basit

BD’s political instability & regional security dynamics

27.12.2025 50

Pakistan Observer

Abdul Basit

Framing the adversary in South Asia

08.08.2025 60

Pakistan Observer

Abdul Basit