Editor’s Note: Riyadh’s new partnership with Islamabad may unsettle Delhi, but it could also mark the start of a more pragmatic era in South Asian and Gulf politics. Saudi Arabia’s transformation from exporter of ideology to promoter of moderation gives India room to engage — not retreat. When Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed their Strategic
Since their violent partition in 1947, driven by the British policy of divide and rule, India has carried the deeper scars of division, not just in terms of human tragedy, but in the lasting cost to its strategic environment. The creation of Pakistan wasn’t just a cartographic exercise. It was a rupture built on a
In late 2021, not long after Kabul fell, I received a message from a young woman I had once mentored during my time in Afghanistan’s parliament. She was smart, sharp-tongued, and obsessed with becoming a judge. I still remember her saying, “I want to be the one who tells old men they’re wrong.” When the