Articles

West Asian Leaders and Organisations Condemn Terrorist Attack in Pahalgam, Jammu & Kashmir

Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Adversity often becomes a litmus test for friends. It is also not untrue of diplomacy. For decades, India’s relationship with most West Asian countries has been transactional and only recently due to strategic and increasing importance of India and....

April 29, 2025 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Israel , Iran , Saudi Arabia , West Asia , Terror attack , Turkey , Pahalgam

Hamas-Pakistan Terror Nexus in PoJK: A Wake-Up Call for Bharat?

Anurag Sharma, Associate Fellow, VIF Commentary

दुर्जनः परिहर्तव्यो विद्ययाsलंकृतोऽपि सन्। मणिना भूषितः सर्पः किम् असौ न भयंकरः॥ - ‘नीतीश�....

March 12, 2025 Terrorism , Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Commentary , Israel , Pakistan , US , Iran , Kashmir , Terrorism , LeT , IM , JeM , POJK , Hamas , Mujahideen , Bharat , UAPA , SIMI

Neighborhood News Digest- 10 February 2025

Afghanistan

Embassy in Ankara Resumes Operations under Islamic Emirate- Tolo News

Following the announcement by the Afghan Embassy in Ankara regarding its transfer to Türkiye, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Em....

February 10, 2025 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Israel , Palestine , Pakistan , economy , Maldives , Central Asia , Myanmar , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Bhutan , Saudi Arabia , Bangladesh , Turkey , Imran Khan , IMF , CSTO , Sheikh Hasina , IT , Reform Commissions , NPP.

IMEC, a Possibility Put on Hold

Ritwik Prijit Article

Introduction

India’s G20 presidency culminated in an ambitious transcontinental dream when New Delhi hosted the country’s first G20 summit in 2023. True to its theme, Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam or “One Earth One Family One Future�....

January 30, 2025 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Israel , India , China , Trump , Europe , trade , West Asia , BRI , Trump administration , India-EU FTA , economic strategy , Quantum Technology , IMEC

The American Standpoint and the West Asian Quagmire

Dr Manan Dwivedi Article

West Asia and its conflicts remain embedded in public awareness as a kind of stalemate and a quagmire which has the liability of conflict and war written all over it. Great power interventions have been a bane of existence for the beleaguered region ....

January 15, 2025 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Article , Israel , US , Iran , West Asia , Houthi , Hezbollah , Hamas

Neighborhood News Digest - 09 January 2025

Afghanistan

Islamic Emirate: We Have Not Received Any Financial Aid from US-Tolo News

Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate, has rejected claims of billions of dollars in US aid to Afghanistan, stating t....

January 09, 2025 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , Israel , Pakistan , US , economy , Maldives , Myanmar , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Trump , Bhutan , election , Bangladesh , EU , IMF , PTI , Sri Lanka-China , Myanmar-Russia , Maldives-India relations , Resettlement , Rakhine State , PHPA-I dam , Ngultrum , KKH

Iran: Review of Situation as of December 2024

Kingshuk Chatterjee Commentary

Right from the beginning of the Gaza Conflict triggered by the outrage of 7th October 2023, it was very clear that Iran did not want a war with Israel. This was partly because Israeli military capabilities by themselves are demonstrably far more sign....

December 18, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , West Asia , Commentary , Israel , IRGC , Hezbollah , Benjamin Netanyahu , Masoud Pezeshkian