Chabahar provides one such alternative. Even the US, during occupation, exempted Afghan trade in certain items through Chabahar from Iran-specific sanctions. A fully functional Chabahar outstrips both ...

India knows that it cannot expect help from external powers in managing its neighbourhood. Without improved ties, its ...

Trump’s executive order, termed "Maximum Pressure on Iran," is aimed at stripping the country of its nuclear enrichment plans ...

On growing influence of China on South Asia, BJP MP Sujeet Kumar on 09 asserted that China has always tried to encircle India through its 'String of Pearls' strategy. He said, "China has always tried ...

One of the elephants in the room during AMAN-25 is Gwadar, the Belt and Road Initiative’s (BRI) crown jewel in Pakistan, ...

Pakistan’s prestigious multinational naval exercise, welcomes over 80 nations to strengthen maritime security, naval ...

into the Indian Ocean. Another significant development is Gwadar Port in Pakistan which allows China to transit petroleum and natural gas to Gwadar and then through pipelines to China ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called ”Footprint of Freedom,” is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos Island chain in the Indian Ocean ... deep-water port within the ...

The ocean was once a blessing for the coastal Pakistani city of Gwadar, which relies heavily ... The more sensitive projects, especially the port, are tightly secured by the Pakistani military ...