Articles By Manish Rai
Erdogan Won But Turkiye May Lose
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jun , 2023
After facing the toughest challenge of his political career to date, Turkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan got re-elected for a third term. Defeating Kemal Kilicdaroglu, presidential candidate...
Islamic Jihad Emerging as Most Eminent Threat from Gaza
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 May , 2023
The ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) has taken effect in the Gaza Strip after days of cross-border fighting. The confrontation left at least 33 Palestinians dead...
Syria all set to get into Arab Fold
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Apr , 2023
Recently in the last few months there have been a lot of diplomatic initiatives taken up by the gulf states to improve relations with Damascus. Most important of them was Syrian President Bashar...
India-Egyptian relations are now Strategic: Indian Envoy
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Mar , 2023
Ambassador Ajit Gupte a senior diplomat from Indian Foreign Service (IFS) is currently serving as the Indian Ambassador to Egypt. We are presently witnessing a deepening of Indo-Egyptian ties as...
Baloch People’s Patience Running Out
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Feb , 2023
Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province in terms of area, has been rocked by the massive protests and sit-in demonstrations for quite sometime now. The “Haq Do Tehreek” (Give Rights...
Why Anti-Taliban Resistance Should be Supported
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jan , 2023
Recently the Taliban have ordered an indefinite ban on university education for the country’s women. The Ministry of Higher Education stated this in a letter issued to all government and...
Doha Misused FIFA for Pushing its Extremist Agenda
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Dec , 2022
FIFA world cup is currently going on in Qatar, which indeed is the first Arab and Muslim country to host this global megaevent. Although Qatar is a country of just three million mostly...
Pak Army should go back to Barracks
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Nov , 2022
The ouster of Imran Khan as the Prime Minister in April this year has led to an unprecedented backlash against the country’s all-mighty military establishment. People are now openly expressing...
Baloch Conflict: No Longer a Low-Level Insurgency
By: Manish Rai | Date: 17 Oct , 2022
For decades the Pakistani establishment has termed the Baloch insurgency as a low-intensity conflict confined mostly to Balochistan, the country’s largest province by territory. But that seems...
Pakistani Taliban is a Volcano waiting to Erupt
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Sep , 2022
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in June this year declared an indefinite ceasefire to facilitate peace talks being brokered by the Afghan Taliban. But there have been regular clashes between TTP...
Al-Qaeda Still Potent
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Sep , 2022
With the recent killing of Al-Qaeda (AQ) chief Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghan capital Kabul a lot of speculation is generated on the future of this terror outfit. Some analysts even going to the...
India Can Have Working Relations With Taliban
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jul , 2022
Recently India has reinvented its engagement policy with the Taliban. As in the first week of June, a high-level Indian diplomatic delegation led by Shri J P Singh, Joint Secretary in the...
Resistance Have Presence in Most Parts of Afghanistan- NRF
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Jun , 2022
Recently there has been intense fighting between the Taliban forces and NRF guerillas in and around Panjshir and Andarab valley in North Afghanistan. NRF claimed to have inflicted heavy...
Taliban on the Verge of an Inhouse Fight
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 May , 2022
The Taliban now has firm control over Afghanistan. At this point in time, the Taliban have no opponents capable of undermining their positions in terms of military, political, or even economic...
Imran Khan Just a Bunch of Lies and Disappointments
By: Manish Rai | Date: 09 Apr , 2022
In 2018, Pakistan witnessed the rise of new celebrity Prime Minister Imran Khan who vowed to halt dynastic politics, end corruption and boost the economy. Common Pakistanis especially the youths...
Balochistan on the Verge of Eruption
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Feb , 2022
Balochistan Pakistan’s largest province in terms of area in the last few weeks has witnessed a drastic increase in attacks against the Pakistani security forces, with Baloch rebels having...
China Should Know That it’s Investment is not Safe in Balochistan: BNA
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jan , 2022
Two important Baloch armed groups Baloch Republican Army (BRA) and the United Baloch Army (UBA) recently announced their merger and formation of a new “resistance organization,” the Baloch...
Ending Pakistan’s Forcible Occupation is the Ultimate Goal- Balochistan...
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jan , 2022
Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) is one of the oldest and sizeable Baloch armed separatist groups frequently carrying out armed attacks against Pakistani forces and government installations in...
Tablighi Jamaat a Cause For Concern
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Dec , 2021
Tablighi Jamaat (TIJ) is currently grabbing the headlines for getting banned by Saudi Arabia. Saudi government official statement called Jamaat as a danger to society and one of the gates of...
Erdogan Becoming a Liability for Turkey
By: Manish Rai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Nov , 2021
Last month Turkey made it into the grey list of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog headquartered in Paris. Turkey now joins its...