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England must brace for a war that can no longer be deferred

There’s little doubt that the unravelling of English politics is taking place at a speed few anticipated. Even though figures show net immigration...

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Praveen Swami

Manipur has seen too much pain to be seduced by promises

Nehru learned the truth the hard way when 3,000 Nagas walked out of his 1953 rally. The people of the Northeast aren’t easily seduced by baubles.

14.09.2025 10

Praveen Swami

Qatar played all sides, peacemaker to Islamist safe haven. Now there’s no place to hide

As the world order threatens to buckle under new strains, peacemaking is becoming an ever more dangerous business.

10.09.2025 6

Praveen Swami

India-US relationship has survived darker times. Intelligence ties bind us together

India-US intelligence ties flourished even in the shadow of the Cold War, as New Delhi resolutely proclaimed its commitment to non-alignment.

07.09.2025 10

Praveen Swami

Trump’s 4,500 troops can topple Nicolás Maduro—not fix Venezuela

The US troops could dislodge the government in Caracas, but it won’t be enough to police a country ringed by drug cartels and insurgents.

03.09.2025 10

Praveen Swami

A vicious pest is teaching Americans a lesson on why global cooperation matters

The screwworm has breached the biological wall established in Panama over decades. The pest is relentlessly marching northwards—helped by Trump’s...

27.08.2025 3

Praveen Swami

India-China conflict began in 1947, not 1962 war. Its lessons still haunt New Delhi

Indian political leaders will have to prepare their public for the prospect of concessions India never really held—just as Chinese leaders must...

24.08.2025 10

Praveen Swami

Trump govt considering ban on Muslim Brotherhood—Is the West’s romance with Islamism over?

Trump had promised to ban the Muslim Brotherhood in 2019. The plan disappeared into the sands.

20.08.2025 10

Praveen Swami

China wants to create new order in Myanmar. India must switch gears or be dealt out of the game

India’s policy on Myanmar has been to deal with its Generals and maintain a distance from the country’s insurgent groups and political struggles....

17.08.2025 20

Praveen Swami

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it...

14.08.2025 7

Praveen Swami

There’s a method in Trump’s Pakistan romance. It’s all about Gulf security

Like Turkey and Egypt, Pakistan is one of a handful of powers with the human resources and infrastructure to help secure the Persian Gulf as Trump’s...

10.08.2025 10

Praveen Swami

Restoring J&K’s statehood won’t be enough. Kashmiris need to be treated like other Indians

Kashmir has never been, in any sense of the world, allowed to be a normal state, with normal politicians and normal citizens.

06.08.2025 10

Praveen Swami

A year after Bangladesh’s Monsoon Revolution, a parched summer looms ahead

Mob violence, Islamist rise, and political collapse haunt Bangladesh after Sheikh Hasina’s ouster. Can April 2026 elections restore order?

27.07.2025 7

Praveen Swami

Pakistani accomplices, shootouts, sealed chargesheet—how the 7/11 blasts case fell apart

After 19 years, the Bombay High Court finally held what governments and intelligence services have long known: The men sentenced for their role in the...

23.07.2025 6

Praveen Swami

Can Syria’s tiny Druze minority survive West Asia’s new storms? There’s little hope

Indians see West Asia as one uninterrupted wash of Islam, but the reality is more complex. For the Druze, support from Israel—where they are a...

20.07.2025 10

Praveen Swami

Martyrs’ Day row has reopened Kashmir’s deepest wounds

For many Muslims, the message from this Martyrs’ Day is that it doesn’t matter who the community votes for, Kashmir’s identity and history will...

16.07.2025 10

Praveen Swami

ICC warrant against Taliban chief gives world a second chance to do right in Afghanistan

The International Criminal Court at The Hague has issued arrest warrants against the supreme leader of Afghanistan, Haibatullah Akhundzada, and his...

13.07.2025 20

Praveen Swami

Afghanistan is starving—and its farmers are fighting to save the poppy

The world has a shared interest in helping Afghan farmers move on from poppy. But time and again, it has abandoned them and the young Afghans killed...

09.07.2025 10

Praveen Swami

Dalai Lama decides to reincarnate. His successor may only get an imagined homeland to rule

There is little doubt about what Beijing will do if the successor to the Dalai Lama is chosen from within Tibet. China has no intention of allowing...

06.07.2025 7

Praveen Swami

Turkey’s looking more like Pakistan every day. Blasphemy-obsessed, imprisoned by hatred

Erdoğan’s beliefs are increasingly evident beyond Turkey’s borders, too. The new regime in Syria has embraced Sharia as the basis of its laws,...

02.07.2025 10

Praveen Swami

Asim Munir is playing good jihadi-bad jihadi game. Suicide bombing shows he’s failing

As a succession of generals before Asim Munir learned, cooptation of Pakistani jihadism is a dangerous—and mostly short-lived—enterprise.

30.06.2025 7

Praveen Swami

Why 1969 USSR-China conflict has crucial lessons for Iran & Israel

In its conflict with the USSR, China learned that a nation with a fledgling nuclear arsenal could not hope to deter a significant power.

25.06.2025 6

Praveen Swami

Trump’s seduction of Asim Munir won’t get him cheap labour to uphold American Peace

Trump’s gushing reception of Field Marshal Asim Munir has caused no small anxiety in India. For the first time since 26/11, the US seems to be...

22.06.2025 5

Praveen Swami

Iran and Israel are fighting their demons, not a war. They are prisoners of their nightmares

The world needs leaders awake to the abyss that lies ahead of this Israel-Iran war. But there are no signs of any, not in Tehran or Tel Aviv, nor in...

18.06.2025 20

Praveen Swami

Israel crushed Ayatollah’s regime, but stopping Iran’s nuke programme will need total overthrow

Israel and the United States are now betting that Iran’s leadership will acknowledge their military and economic weakness and return to the...

15.06.2025 8

Praveen Swami

Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric is tearing LA apart—a city built by Mexican settlers in 1781

Chinese massacres, Zoot Suit beatings, Watts violence, and Rodney King riots show how Los Angeles has always been America's testing ground for racial...

11.06.2025 30

Praveen Swami

Srinagar train reminds us Kashmir was secured by iron and rock, that’s how soldiers moved in

The war India really needs to win is to make Kashmir’s people secure, prosperous partners in the project of India. Each journey on the new train...

08.06.2025 4

Praveen Swami

Lashkar’s renewed blossoming shows war hasn’t coerced Pakistan Army into giving up on Kashmir

Islamabad knows it cannot take Kashmir by force, and yet it persists in waging a war without an end. To give up the conflict would mean giving up the...

04.06.2025 20

Praveen Swami

India paid for ignoring warnings in 1965 war. It can’t afford to repeat those mistakes today

Even though the Indian Army had repeatedly war-gamed attacks by Pakistan since at least 1956, Lieutenant General Harbaksh Singh said the Pakistani...

01.06.2025 10

Praveen Swami

Trump’s corruption is eroding America’s global power. India can’t count on it

The goals India cares about—containing China, targeting jihadists in Pakistan, securing trade routes and energy—don’t seem to matter to Trump.

28.05.2025 10

Praveen Swami

Maoism became irrelevant to India’s working class much before Basavaraju’s death

Adivasis supported Maoists sometimes for tactical gain or to avenge state violence, but had little interest in the project of making a revolution.

25.05.2025 10

Praveen Swami

India needs to focus on winning in Kashmir, not fighting Pakistan

Like it or not, the Pakistan Army has shown it is willing to fight. And this has given renewed hope to the pro-Pakistan constituency within Kashmir.

19.05.2025 8

Praveen Swami

Trump’s Kashmir fixation is dangerous for India. New Delhi must begin preparing

Former US President John F Kennedy’s mediation effort on Kashmir in the 1960s had led Pakistan to sharpen its sword, not beat them into ploughshares.

14.05.2025 10

Praveen Swami

For Pakistan Army, war is the performance of its nationhood. Ceasefire violation warns of new conflicts ahead

The end India should seek is the construction of Pakistan other than the country its generals and clerics have imagined into being. Furious words and...

11.05.2025 10

Praveen Swami

Away from LoC, General Munir is losing a far more fateful war within Pakistan

Faced with genuine political resistance in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, the Pakistan military’s strategy is nearing irretrievable collapse....

07.05.2025 20

Praveen Swami

Ending Indus treaty may hurt Pakistan’s poor, but it’ll also unite it with anti-India hatred

For obvious reasons, international support would be harder to recruit if India were seen as deliberately inflicting drought on millions in Pakistan.

04.05.2025 7

Praveen Swami

Kashmir’s Leepa Valley is on fire. Is a new war brewing on the Line of Control?

While the Pakistan Army will suffer humiliation if the LoC is pushed westward, a war of attrition could well mean an escalation of terrorism within...

30.04.2025 4

Praveen Swami

Five choices for Modi to restore India’s red line in Kashmir. Each is perilous

Islamabad has learned that it cannot win Kashmir. The purpose of its military is not to win Kashmir or make strategic gains for Pakistan but to...

25.04.2025 10

Praveen Swami

Shin Bet chief says Netanyahu wants to make Israel a police state. What it means for country

Ronen Bar’s affidavit shows Israel still has a core institutional resilience, and individuals of integrity, who can help prevent that outcome. The...

23.04.2025 4

Praveen Swami

India’s finally getting key terror suspects extradited. Can prosecutors deliver justice?

The story of Ubaidullah Abdulrashid Radiowalla shows why Indian authorities have struggled to secure extraditions. The evidence is often murky, and...

22.04.2025 4

Praveen Swami

West Bengal’s Waqf violence will have no winner. Don’t stoke flames that can consume you

The Trinamool government’s efforts to consolidate its ties to Islamic clerics inevitably made religion part of the language of politics.

16.04.2025 10

Praveen Swami

Trump’s economic coercion to secure US hegemony feels like it’s 1940s all over again

Through the massive tariffs imposed on China, journalist Will Dunn says, Trump is telling other powers that the price of access to America’s markets...

13.04.2025 9

Praveen Swami

New round of Iran nuclear negotiations begins. Time to talk about Israel’s atomic bombs too

Trump and Iranian negotiators will have to find guarantees that address the concerns of Iran but also its adversaries like Israel and Saudi Arabia.

09.04.2025 8

Praveen Swami

India, Pakistan are sleepwalking toward another crisis on the LOC

Tensions have been rising for weeks as jihadists from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir breached the LoC. Last month, two Indian soldiers were killed in...

06.04.2025 10

Praveen Swami

Coup rumours are circulating in Dhaka. Here’s why the army isn’t keen on it

Far from consolidating military authority, the coup of 1975 ushered in a brutal power struggle within its ranks.

02.04.2025 10

Praveen Swami

Trump’s cutting aid to prisons housing Islamic State cadres. Thousands have already escaped

Failure by nation-states to implement policies that include and empower vulnerable young people lies at the heart of why organisations like the...

30.03.2025 10

Praveen Swami

Centre might need to do business with J&K’s mainstream parties. Even if it’s painful for Modi

Ever since J&K lost its special status, the Awami Action Committee and the Ittihadul Muslimeen had escaped proscription, with New Delhi hoping its...

26.03.2025 10

Praveen Swami

Running buses won’t bring peace to Manipur. Govt must seek to engage, not erase

The anti-India insurgency in Manipur threw its weight behind reviving pre-Hindu cultural traditions and faith among the Meitei, excluding groups like...

23.03.2025 10

Praveen Swami

Pakistan doesn’t have enough troops for 2 fronts. It has to choose between LOC, Balochistan

The Pakistani state cannot and will not win unless it abandons the principles of colonial counter-insurgency, which have coated its institutional...

19.03.2025 4

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Germany has decided to defend itself. And its war-making rhetoric can spell doom

A fifth of the voters in Germany’s just-concluded elections voted for the neo-Nazi party Alternative für Deutschland, which wants to take the...

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