National Security Advisor Ajit Doval emphasised the significance of introspection in resolving conflicts between state and religion. Speaki...

Israeli troops deployed to the Golan Heights to bolster security amid internal events in Syria, while asserting non-interference. The deplo...

Almost a year after the famous Iranian hip-hop artist Toomaj Salehi was arrested over his lyrics about the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, the r...

Jammu and Kashmir authorities disallowed prayers at Jama Masjid in Srinagar for 5 years, including Jumat-ul-Vida prayers. Mirwaiz criticize...

Notably, Pakistan's score on the EIU Democracy Index fell by 0.88 to 3.25, resulting in a fall of 11 places in the global ranking table, to...

Nobel Peace laureate Narges Mohammadi, a rights campaigner imprisoned in Iran, expressed hope for change in the country despite her own cir...

Under Mirziyoyev, freedom of speech has been expanded compared with the total suppression of dissent during the Karimov era, and some indep...

The protesters -- mostly from the hardline Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam -- were angry at the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Adeeb has also been accused of having links with Sri Lankan parliamentarian Duminda Silva, who is under the scanner for alleged ties with d...

Absence of democracy and suppression of civil rights in much of the region lends a dangerous degree of popular acceptance, even approbation...

Democratic processes and institutions must evolve in the region and, to aid that, the world must engage with political Islam.

Just like allowing the Egyptian army to stymie the revolution means a validation of the Al Qaeda stand that no real regime change is possib...

Democracy does not arrive in all its full-fledged glory in any new state; growth and deepening of democracy are a process.

There is a story about a dissident who, railing against an authoritarian regime in a busy city square, is promptly arrested and put in jail...

Events in Tunisia are of far greater import for West Asia, and the Arab world in particular, than the immediate fact of a people’s revolt f...

The growing political instability and cautiousness of investors in the wake of imposition of emergency in Pakistan could adversely impact i...

Oppressive prime ministers and caring dictators - elected with the click of a mouse - are running over 1 lakh cyber nations armed with thei...