Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the catalyst that made Narendra Modi the Prime Minister of India. Following the 1995 assembly election in Gujarat, Narendra Modi had been called to New Delhi by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership.

India and Russia’s historically close relationship has been complicated by geopolitical realities but last week’s summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin demonstrated the extent to which both sides intend to stay close.

Pakistan has struggled for many years with the gender inequality of women achieving an education within their country. Pakistan is the sixth most populated country in the world, but with more than 40 percent of women never receiving an education, the nation has one of the lowest literacy rates on the continent.

The United Arab Emirates is walking a diplomatic high wire between superpower ally Washington, new friend Israel and old adversary Iran as it seeks to avoid a costly regional conflict that could torpedo its trade and tourism ambitions. What does this move implicate about the future?

In this attack, Japan intended the attack as a preventive action to prevent the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and those of the United States.

Pakistan has one of the highest incidences of honor killings in the world. This is a major human rights issue that has received little attention outside of human rights groups and women activist networks. The concept of honor in Pakistan is linked with certain toxic masculine attitudes

Taliban chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid on Friday called on members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to recognize the group’s government in Afghanistan at their upcoming meeting in Pakistan. Fears are growing about a pending humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.

Technology encompasses a huge body of knowledge and tools that ease the use of economic resources as a way to produce goods and services efficiently and innovatively. Perhaps the key reason for the rise of these clusters of innovation has been the role of the government.

Why, as a Muslim, I Defend Liberty, by Mustafa Akyol offers a nuanced critique of these problems by acknowledging their roots in the religious tradition. Yet he also shows that there are strong grounds in the same religious tradition to defend freedom of speech and religion

In India itself, the hard-line approach to Muslims as terrorists is that other communities who are not Hindus like Christians, Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs are not viewed from the narrow prism of Hindutva. Modi is not a lone wolf, an exceptional lonely person having extreme views against the Muslim

Saudi Islamic affairs minister Abdullatif bin Abdulaziz al-Sheikh has ordered imams in the kingdom to identify one of the world’s largest Muslim movements as misguided, deviant, dangerous, and a breeder of militancy.

Second strike capability is the ability of a state to respond to a nuclear attack through nuclear retaliation. The possession of this capability, confers a state, the ability to deter its adversaries from resorting to a first strike. States look to achieve the nuclear triad to make their second strike