Perspective

No Boat, No Mandate in Bangladesh

Sheikh Hasina’s legitimacy does not rest on rhetoric alone; it rests on law, history, and the expressed will of the electorate. Until the people, through a free and fair vote, decide otherwise, any alternative claim to power remains provisional at best, illegitimate at worst.

Is Afghanistan staring at a regime change?

Most of Afghanistan’s neighbours have come around to reconciling themselves with the inevitability of Taliban rule. The only exception, ironically, is Pakistan, which created and promoted the Taliban. Many of the insinuations about regime change have originated from there.