IDR Blog
Reality check: Why the West risks dragging itself – and the world – into a nuclear nightmare
EU nations are pledging more lethal weapons to Ukraine while refusing to accept Moscow’s insistence that it harbors no intention to attack NATO into their comfortable war narrative. This could be a serious misjudgment Any serious and objective non-Western observer of geopolitics would be baffled by the conduct of European nations in the...
Afghanistan- Where Lies the Problem?
For the past three decades, the people of Afghanistan have been facing the ordeal of war and instability. Taliban came to power by the power of the gun in 2021, replacing the elected Government. Since then, the Afghan people including women and children have been forced to live under the shadows of fear and violence. Under the present Taliban...
The Polish-West Ukrainian Conflict over East Galicia in 1918−1919
The eastern portion of Europe and the end of WWI The end of WWI resulted in significant changes concerning the political boundaries of Central, East, and South-East Europe. For the reason of the extent of these changes and the newly born regional wars over the land distribution that erupted in several mini-regions in the eastern portion of...
China playing new Border games close to Mount Kailash
Western Tibet has a rich historical background, particularly in proximity to Mount Kailash, near the trijunction between India, Nepal and Tibet. It is the case of Purang/Taklakot and a place called Toyo, located a few kilometres away, which have gone down in history for the epic battle between the Dogras of Gen. Zorawar Singh and the Tibetans...
Ghazwa-e-Hind Fatwa
Fatwa “Anti-National” File photo On February 22, 2024, Darul Uloom Deoband, one of the leading Islamic seminaries in Bharat, reportedly issued a fatwa that gave validity to the idea of Ghazwa-e-Hind. The seminary has, in fact, written on its website that “Ghazwa-e-Hind” (read holy raid of Bharat) is “valid from the Islamic point of...