Guest Essays

Sheikh Hasina addresses reporters at a press conference, speaking from exile in New Delhi

Sheikh Hasina Built Bangladesh – The Evidence No Court Can Erase

Sheikh Hasina oversaw the largest poverty reduction in South Asian history, sheltered more than a million Rohingya refugees, and drove global climate negotiations to a historic result. Guest essayist Muzaffar Ahmad Bajwaa:

August 18, 2026

by Muzaffar Ahmad Bajwaa

Sheikh Hasina, former prime minister of Bangladesh, casts her vote in Dhaka in January 2024

Washington’s Desperation: Why America Cannot Afford Sheikh Hasina’s Return

Sheikh Hasina's planned return to Bangladesh is a strategic exposure for Washington, revealing the depth of American investment in her 2024 ouster, the NED networks that enabled it, and the terrorism record of BNP that US policy has long preferred

August 3, 2026

by Muzaffar Ahmad Bajwaa

Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian displaying the memorandum of understanding signed to end the 2026 Iran-US war

The Strategic Consequences of Iran–U.S. War

Iran emerged from the 2026 war not as a defeated state but as one with growing

Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha leads the 100-Day Nasha Mukt JK Abhiyan anti-drug padyatra in Bandipora

Kashmir Confronts Its Heroin Crisis as Sinha’s 100-Day Nasha Mukt Abhiyan Crosses Halfway Mark

Kashmir's long-hidden heroin epidemic is finally in the open as LG Manoj Sinha's 100-day Nasha Mukt