• OPINION

  The roots of the India-Canada diplomatic spat

  Oped, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 07/10/2023

  » Rarely have two major democracies descended into as ugly a diplomatic spat as the one now unfolding between Canada and India.

• OPINION

  Bedlam reigns in Afghanistan and Pakistan

  Oped, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 02/06/2023

  » Afghanistan and Pakistan are sinking deeper into disarray, and the US bears a significant share of the blame. As long as this long-troubled region remains in turmoil, Islamist terrorism will continue to thrive, with grave implications for international security.

• OPINION

  US-India ties too important to be neglected

  Oped, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 18/10/2022

  » The upcoming joint military exercise between the US-India known as War Practice, in a high-altitude area less than 100 kilometres from India's border with China, highlights the partnership's growing strategic importance. India holds more annual military drills with the US than any other country, as the two powers seek to improve their forces' interoperability.

• OPINION

  No justification for engaging with Taliban

  Oped, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 19/08/2022

  » In the year since the United States' disgraceful abandonment of Afghanistan to the Taliban, the country has gone down precisely the path any logical observer would have predicted: a medieval, jihadist, terrorist-sheltering emirate has been established. The US will incur costs for betraying its Afghan allies for a long time to come. But nobody will pay a higher price than Afghans.

• OPINION

  Crippling blow to the global war on terror

  News, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 13/09/2021

  » The American-led global war on terror, launched 20 years ago after the Sept 11, 2001, attacks against the United States, was already faltering before President Joe Biden took office. Now it may not recover from the blow delivered by Mr Biden's historic blunder in facilitating the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan. The flag of the world's deadliest terrorists -- responsible for killing over 2,000 US soldiers since 2001 -- flies above Kabul on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

• BUSINESS

  India faces difficult choice in the Maldives

  Asia focus, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 26/02/2018

  » The Maldives -- that beautiful Indian Ocean country comprising more than 1,000 coral islands -- is known the world over as a tranquil and luxurious travel destination. But the country is now being roiled by a political crisis so severe that international advisories are cautioning against travel there.

• BUSINESS

  China's grand plan for its Pakistani outpost

  Asia focus, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 30/05/2016

  » Like a typical school bully, China is big and strong, but it doesn't have a lot of friends. Indeed, now that the country has joined with the United States to approve new international sanctions on its former vassal state North Korea, it has just one real ally left: Pakistan.

• OPINION

  Saudi Arabia's phoney war on terror

  News, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 23/12/2015

  » Containing the scourge of Islamist terror will be impossible without containing the ideology that drives it: Wahhabism, a messianic, jihad-extolling form of Sunni fundamentalism whose international expansion has been bankrolled by oil-rich sheikhdoms, especially Saudi Arabia. That is why the newly announced Saudi-led anti-terror coalition, the Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism, should be viewed with profound scepticism.

• OPINION

  How the West sowed seeds for terrorism

  News, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 19/11/2015

  » The Islamic State's horrific attacks in Paris are a stark reminder that Western powers cannot contain -- let alone insulate themselves from -- the unintended consequences of their interventions in the Middle East. The unravelling of Syria, Iraq and Libya, together with the civil war that is tearing Yemen apart, have created vast killing fields, generated waves of refugees and spawned Islamist militants who will remain a threat to international security for years to come. And the West has more than a little to do with it.

• OPINION

  America rushes into yet another war

  News, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 25/09/2014

  » It is official: US President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama is at war again. After toppling Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi and bombing targets in Somalia and Yemen, Mr Obama has initiated airstrikes in northern Iraq, effectively declaring war on the Islamic State — a decision that will involve infringing on the sovereign, if disintegrating, state of Syria. In his zeal to intervene, Mr Obama is again disregarding US and international law by seeking approval from neither the US Congress nor the United Nations Security Council.

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