Ajit Amar Singh
Joined: April 29, 2026
Ajit Amar Singh has over a decade of experience covering defence and strategic affairs across South Asia's most conflict-affected and politically sensitive regions. His work is grounded in historical context and sustained engagement with key stakeholders on the ground, spanning both print and digital platforms.
Beijing’s official language on CPEC is one of permanence – “all-weather,” “iron-clad,” unshakeable by attack. That’s messaging for a domestic and diplomatic audience; it isn’t what moves capital.
4 WEEKS AGO
General Upendra Dwivedi retires as chief of Army staff, leaving behind a number that has become shorthand for his tenure: 50,000 drones.
4 WEEKS AGO
For most of the modern era, the Himalayas have served as India's natural northern rampart. But mountains do not defend themselves, and the 1,751-kilometre open border India shares with Nepal means that Kathmandu's strategic choices are, in effect, New Delhi's strategic exposure.
A MONTH AGO
In fiscal year 2024, the World Bank estimated that Pakistan’s poverty rate had reached 40.5 per cent, measured at $3.65 per person per day in 2017 purchasing power parity terms, with an additional 2.6 million Pakistanis falling below the poverty line.
A MONTH AGO
Major military projects typically generate public debate. What makes Gwadar’s naval base planning so striking is the absence of any such discussion. Official planning documents reportedly name a foreign navy as a prospective user of a facility being built on Pakistani sovereign territory.
2 MONTHS AGO
Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi leaves behind a navy that commissioned warships at a record pace, led the maritime dimension of Operation Sindoor, and forced Pakistan’s vessels to stay in port for months.
2 MONTHS AGO
India’s ports, fuel supplies, railways and transit corridors remain the foundation of Nepal’s economy, connecting the landlocked nation to global trade and sustaining everyday commerce.
2 MONTHS AGO
Three years of real-world conflict and China’s naval build-up have steadily undermined the argument that missiles and drones made aircraft carriers obsolete.
2 MONTHS AGO
There is a particular kind of infrastructure that only reveals its true value when things go wrong. It sits quietly, doing its job, attracting none of the attention that crises generate and emergency aid attracts. Then the crisis comes – the reserves collapse, the fuel ships stop arriving, the grid starts to strain – and suddenly the value of what was built, years earlier, in calmer times, becomes impossible to ignore.
2 MONTHS AGO
False accusations of blasphemy and “anti-national” activity are no longer spontaneous eruptions of street anger; they are being organised and deployed through social media to prepare the ground for targeted killings of Bangladesh's minorities.
2 MONTHS AGO
Pakistan commissioned PNS Hangor on 30 April 2026 in Sanya, China, in a ceremony attended by President Asif Ali Zardari and Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Naveed Ashraf. It was presented, as every milestone in this programme has been presented, as a moment of national achievement.
3 MONTHS AGO
Pakistan’s activation of an overland trade route to Iran -- forced by the US-Israel strikes and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz -- has placed Islamabad in an uncomfortable but strategically significant position: simultaneously a sanctions-circumvention conduit in Washington’s eyes and America’s most indispensable mediator in the very conflict driving the crisis.
3 MONTHS AGO
SUPARCO launched its EO-3 satellite – the third and final unit in its PRSC-EO Earth observation constellation – aboard a Long March 6 rocket on April 25, completing a three-satellite indigenous imaging architecture that has been under construction since early 2025.
3 MONTHS AGO
China's infrastructure investment in Nepal runs deeper than roads and dams. From surveillance systems to security cooperation, a structural analysis of what Beijing is really building.
3 MONTHS AGO
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