Colombo urgently needs to correct the intelligence failures that led to the Easter attacks While threats are always easier spotted in hindsight, the Easter attacks nevertheless represented a massive security failure by the Sri Lankan state. Foreign intelligence services had warned their Sri Lankan counterparts of a significant imminent attack on churches weeks before the …
Sri Lanka plunged into a political crisis in October 2018 when President Maithripala Sirisena suddenly and unexpectedly sacked the sitting prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, his former partner in the National Unity Government formed in January 2015. It could not have come at a worse time for the Sri Lankan economy. In a peculiar turn of …
The political turmoil in Islamabad is taking place amid an escalating geo-political crisis. Washington is threatening to further downgrade its relations with Pakistan, even declare it a “terrorist state,” if it does not target the Haqqani network. For the past 10 months, Indo-Pakistani relations have been on the boil with almost daily cross-border artillery barrages …