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.

Hosting PLA (N) ships at Gwadar: Pakistan’s sovereignty bargain with Beijing

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.

9 HRS AGO

Indian Navy chief Adm Dinesh K Tripathi retires

Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi: A tenure defined by steel, sea, and Operation Sindoor

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 WEEKS AGO

How India became Nepal’s economic lifeline through trade and transit

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 WEEKS AGO

Amid China’s growing naval power, does India need a third carrier?

Why India needs a third aircraft carrier as China expands naval power in the Indian Ocean?

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.

3 WEEKS AGO

How Rampal became Bangladesh’s crisis buffer

Rampal explained: How India-Bangladesh power project became Dhaka’s quiet crisis shield

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.

3 WEEKS AGO

How social media campaigns are pre-programming minority killings in Dhaka

Blasphemy today, murder tomorrow: How social media campaigns are pre-programming minority killings in Bangladesh

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.

4 WEEKS AGO

The hidden costs of Pakistan’s Hangor-class submarine deal

Pakistan's Hangor bet: Billions spent, timelines slipping, questions ignored

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.

4 WEEKS AGO

How is the Iran corridor affecting Pakistan US relations

Gwadar Port: How the Iran corridor is complicating and reshaping Pakistan's US relations

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.

A MONTH AGO

EO-3 ‘first image’ turns out old

EO-3 photo controversy echoes Pakistan’s past information warfare tactics – A pattern exposed in Operation Sindoor

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.

A MONTH AGO

What China is really building in Nepal

In Nepal, Chinese investment comes with strings and opportunities

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.

2 MONTHS AGO