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Deep Dive #6 is live. Over the last 20 years, foreign-funded NGOs in India have received ₹2.5+ lakh crore under FCRA. But where did most of that money actually go? After analyzing two decades of MHA reports, parliamentary replies, FCRA filings and independent research, a clear pattern emerges: ✅ Rural Development ✅ Child Welfare ✅ Education ✅ Healthcare ✅ Religious Activities Some findings surprised me: • FCRA inflows grew from ₹4,872 crore (2001-02) to ₹22,963 crore (2024-25) • The USA remained the largest donor source year after year • Delhi and southern states captured the majority of inflows • A small number of NGOs absorbed a disproportionately large share of total funding • Official sector-wise transparency declined significantly after 2011-12 This is Part 1 of a larger series exploring the structure, geography, beneficiaries and policy evolution of foreign funding in India. Read here (Link is in the comment): Deep Dive #6: Foreign-Funded NGOs in India #India #FCRA #NGO #ForeignFunding #DataAnalysis #PublicPolicy #Philanthropy #Research #IndiaPolicy #CrisisAxis

@PuffBurp58441 @Zainabxtijn Coming from a country whose GDP is less than 1/10th of India's economy. Bangladesh is richer than Pakistan. You guys literally beg to gulf to keep your engine running😀😀

I used to believe Kashmir belonged to Pakistan and always would. I used to think those who said “Kashmir belongs to Kashmiris, not Pakistan” were wrong. But now, I understand what they meant. KASHMIR BELONGS TO KASHMIRIS, NOT PAKISTAN. NOT INDIA.

@MuneerUMC @MasterMaliq Don't forget Pakistan where remaining Christian, Hindus and Sikh are burnt alive, their daughters abducted for forceful conversion and marriage. They even burnt a Srilankan on blasphemy charges.

@MasterMaliq Most Muslims countries have Christians who are free to worship. Only in a few countries like Afghanistan is Christianity illegal and we condemn it all the time

As a Muslim, I have a question for my own community. Why do we demand freedom to build mosques, preach Islam, and wear the hijab in non-Muslim countries... Yet in some Muslim-majority countries, churches are restricted, Christian evangelism is criminalised, and converts live in fear. If religious freedom is a right for us, it is a right for everyone. Truth does not need censorship to survive.

@SaleemFarrukh Pakistan is never going to involve in direct war against Iran Bucko..those defense pact means nothing.

Pakistan takes centre stage: The six Gulf monarchies — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, the UAE and Qatar — collectively spend well over $130 billion a year on defence. This is before the post-Iran-war reassessment. For decades, Gulf security rested on one central assumption: the US would deter the threat. Defend the airspace. Keep the sea lanes open.Then came more than 3,000 Iranian missiles and drones aimed at Gulf states. Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE came under attack. US military facilities themselves became targets. The Strait of Hormuz was disrupted. The Red Sea became vulnerable. Lesson for Riyadh, Kuwait City, Muscat, Manama, Abu Dhabi and Doha: buying the world’s most expensive weapons does not automatically buy security.And now comes the reassessment. The Gulf states are not replacing Washington. They are building a second layer beneath Washington. The question is no longer who sells the Gulf weapons. The question is who helps guard the Gulf. The Gulf is not abandoning America. It is insuring against America being insufficient. That insurance will require three layers. First layer — US strategic protection. Second layer — Local Gulf capability. Third layer — Regional military partners. The arithmetic: Pakistan could become central to the third layer.Why Pakistan? Four advantages. First, military scale. Second, combat-tested institutions and training. Third, indigenous defence production — the JF-17, drones and an expanding range of defence systems. Fourth, political compatibility: deep Gulf relationships, working ties with Washington and no territorial ambitions in the Gulf. Strip away the rhetoric: that combination cannot be replicated quickly by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, the UAE or Qatar.Pakistan brings together what the Gulf now needs most: military scale, combat experience, proximity, trusted relationships and indigenous defence production. No other partner offers quite the same mix. The Gulf is not simply shopping for more weapons. The Gulf is shopping for redundancy.The Gulf is shopping for resilience. The Gulf is shopping for another layer of deterrence. Pakistan has the scale. The geography. The relationships. The military culture. The industrial base. Others can sell the Gulf weapons. Pakistan can potentially sell the Gulf something rarer: strategic depth, capacity beyond national borders. Saudi Arabia has already moved. Kuwait is moving. Bahrain is interested. A Pakistan-Saudi-Turkey framework is being discussed. This is no longer speculation. Pieces of a new regional security architecture are already appearing. The Gulf has the money. Pakistan has the military depth. The Gulf needs resilience.Pakistan needs dollars, energy and investment. There is a bargain waiting to be made.The numbers say this: 10 per cent of $130 billion is $13 billion a year.

New Strategic Brief Out | Week of 20–26 July 2026 This week wasn't about escalation. It was about who controls escalation. 🔴 The U.S. and Iran stepped back from continuous strikes—but neither stepped back from their objectives. 🔴 The Strait of Hormuz remained contested, with commercial traffic collapsing and oil briefly crossing $100/barrel. 🔴 The South China Sea turned violent again as a clash at Second Thomas Shoal injured a Philippine serviceman and reactivated U.S.-Philippines alliance tensions. 🔴 Pakistan-administered Kashmir moved toward elections under protests, army brutality, political killing, blackouts, and legitimacy challenges. 🔴 Balochistan became a growing strategic problem for both Islamabad and Beijing, with attacks increasingly targeting the foundations of CPEC. 🔴 Taiwan's next deterrence debate isn't fighters or missiles—it's drones, autonomous systems, and maritime denial. My core assessment: 1. The world's major flashpoints are no longer moving in parallel. 2. They are becoming interconnected. 3. What happens in Hormuz now affects Taiwan. What happens in Balochistan affects China's Indian Ocean strategy. What happens in Ukraine increasingly shapes the Gulf battlefield. The result is a global system where crises reinforce each other rather than remain isolated. In this week's brief I cover: ✅ US-Iran conflict, Hormuz & Bab al-Mandeb ✅ China, Taiwan & South China Sea developments ✅ Sino-Russian military coordination ✅ PoK elections & JAAC protests ✅ Balochistan & CPEC security risks ✅ Quad diplomacy and India's Indo-Pacific strategy ✅ Russia-Ukraine implications for Asia ✅ Strategic outlook for India, the US, and Europe Bottom line: The 20–26 July period may be remembered as the week the world's separate crises started behaving like a single strategic system. 🔗 Full Newsletter Brief Link: open.substack.com/pub/eyeondiplo… #Geopolitics #India #China #Taiwan #SouthChinaSea #Iran #Hormuz #Pakistan #POK #Balochistan #IndianOcean #Quad #Ukraine #Russia #StrategicAffairs #Defense #InternationalRelations #GeoEconomics #CrisisAxis

@sidhant should we ruin the spectacle by telling her the problem’s over and every last one of our demands has been met… or just sit back with popcorn and let her keep raging at imaginary enemies like it’s her full-time job?

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg joins protest in UK over last week's student agitation in India "Indian student's struggle for justice... democracy, is also our struggle" x.com/Coacroach_part…

@MarioNawfal And Pakistan is going to use strongest words to condemn those attacks because if they go against Iran their entire border will be unstable. Pakistan is no replacement of USA- a poor country, no military infra, completely dependent on USA and China for weapons.

Pakistan just signed a collective defense agreement with Kuwait, and Qatar is likely next. Pravin Sawhney, one of India's most respected defense analysts, has been tracking this shift since Day 1 of the war, and his read is sobering: Pakistan is quietly becoming the security anchor of the entire Gulf, filling the vacuum the U.S. is leaving behind, with Saudi, Kuwait and soon Qatar all seeking the same arrangement. Essentially, Article 5 for the Middle East: an attack on them is an attack on Pakistan On the MOU: "This is a consequence of war, a war that Iran has won, and I expect the Iranians to go further, to get more rigid, to bring in Gaza, to bring in Yemen." On the House bill merging U.S. and Israeli military command in the theater: "What it means is that as far as West Asia is concerned, the commander in chief of CENTCOM will be the PM of Israel and not POTUS." On where both wars end: "There is no way that either Russia or Iran will lose, it will be a prolonged war, but the sufferers will be the American empire and the EU." A fascinating perspective from someone who has been right about this conflict at every turn. Thanks for coming on again, @PravinSawhney

Dude..do you realize both of your statements are pro India. First comment about his official vehicle and 2nd claim that few officers are dismissed on a corruption charge. It only means our army isn't corrupt and few bad apples are caught and punished. Now let's talk your side. Every Pakistani general is billionaire. Army runs businesses and own all sort of outlets. Army can increase their salary by 25-50%, even if country is going to default on the loans. They can remove sitting PM and make sure his rots in jail. Here we may have few bad apples, your side entire orchard is rotten to the core and you can't do anything about your establishment.

@RashtraView Indian Army isn't as clean as you claim. A Major General + 20+ officers are facing court martial in the Kapurthala bribery scam. Another Maj Gen was recently convicted in an ₹11 crore medical fraud and dismissed.😂

$20 Billion on useless jets flying high in headlines, but the man leading the world’s 3rd largest defense budget is cruising in a Suzuki.😂

@Seeke09Truth All Chinese made. Lol.

🇵🇰 The Pakistan They Don’t Want You to See Indian state-backed media portrays Pakistan as bankrupt, but the reality is different. Pakistan is developing drones, robotics, and advanced technologies showcasing its growing indigenous capabilities. #DharmendraPardhan #CJP

@NikkeiAsia Pakistan journalists are all over in this news outlet, peddling their propaganda. Are there any independent journalist left there?

Pakistani officials have been alarmed by a Japan-India joint statement issued earlier this month, when Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi met her counterpart Narendra Modi in New Delhi, as the document explicitly linked Pakistan to cross-border terrorism. s.nikkei.com/44M05hN

@Happydays99X Becoming secular may be the one objective Pakistan can pursue with minimal resistance. Having already reduced its religious minorities to a vanishingly small presence through elimination and conversion, the term would function as little more than a decorative slogan.

Pakistan MUST become a secular, scientific minded, civilized society that greatly encourages scientific development, human development, female development and modernity. Nothing listed above goes against the true teachings of Islam. In fact what is listed above would help Pakistanis get closer to the true teachings of Islam.

@sidhant That problem is solved. But we dont hear anything from her about Pakistan occupied Kashmir, Republic of Baloochistan and Afghanistan atrocities carried out by Pakistan.

Signing pacts means nothing. Your pen’s ink didn’t stop Iranian and Houthi missiles raining down on Saudi Arabia. All you could do was issue empty condemnations, make hollow threats… then move on. The term you’re looking for yourself is “the paper tiger of the region.”

Bad News For India: The more defence pacts Pakistan signs, the more the economy depends on defence & the more politicians become irrelevent And Pakistan will become a pretorian society. Which might be better than what we have today. Pakistan will be the Sparta of the region

@HNadim87 You dont have to worry about it your country. You dont even have democracy. Pakistan has been in military dictatorship from its birth.

You have to give it to Gen Z in India. Their Cockroach Movement achieved three things: it exposed Modi's vulnerability, reaffirmed Indian democracy, and inadvertently exposed the hypocrisy of the ruling elite next door in Pakistan, which champions democracy, human rights, and youth empowerment everywhere, except in its own country.

Pakistan is running a classic quadruple game with China, Iran, the Gulf states, and the United States and every single one of them is being set up for a backstab. It cannot afford to alienate China, whose interests increasingly align with Iran. At the same time, the United States still supplies it with cash and advanced weaponry, so Islamabad keeps performing the role of a cooperative partner. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf monarchies have no appetite for fighting their own wars and are hunting for cheap, expendable manpower which is why they keep turning to Pakistan. In the end, Pakistan will either quietly dilute its commitments or openly abandon them when the costs become inconvenient. The pattern is consistent: extract maximum benefits from every side, deliver the minimum possible loyalty, and leave each partner holding the bag when the music stops.

Kuwait’s official gazette, Kuwait Alyawm releases the framework on defence signed between Kuwait, Pakistan in 2023; It focuses on military training, defence, intel cooperation, tech exchanges.

Your India number is off. Per MSCI's own factsheet, India's returns in USD since Dec 29, 2000 turns $10,000 into ~$140,000, not $65,000. The Nifty 50 Total Return in USD is closer to $138,000. Also: over the same window, the Global X MSCI Pakistan ETF is down 72.85% since 2015, and MSCI downgraded Pakistan to Frontier Market status in 2021 because only 4 of its stocks met EM standards. So the 'Pakistan won' story isn't capturable in practice and India didn't finish where you claimed.

@CrisisAxis Boss, I never said Pakistan has progressed more than India. No doubt, India has done much better in that segment. I just said that Pakistani market has outperformed the Indian and the US market despite all the challenges you have mentioned.

Assuming a $10,000 investment on Jan 1, 2000, with dividends reinvested and returns measured in USD. 🇵🇰 Pakistan: ~$160,000 🇺🇸 S&P 500 (USA): ~$85,000 🇮🇳 India: ~$65,000. Pakistan has outperformed both the U.S. and Indian markets over the past 25+ years in dollar terms.

Deep Dive #6 is live. Over the last 20 years, foreign-funded NGOs in India have received ₹2.5+ lakh crore under FCRA. But where did most of that money actually go? After analyzing two decades of MHA reports, parliamentary replies, FCRA filings and independent research, a clear pattern emerges: ✅ Rural Development ✅ Child Welfare ✅ Education ✅ Healthcare ✅ Religious Activities Some findings surprised me: • FCRA inflows grew from ₹4,872 crore (2001-02) to ₹22,963 crore (2024-25) • The USA remained the largest donor source year after year • Delhi and southern states captured the majority of inflows • A small number of NGOs absorbed a disproportionately large share of total funding • Official sector-wise transparency declined significantly after 2011-12 This is Part 1 of a larger series exploring the structure, geography, beneficiaries and policy evolution of foreign funding in India. Read here (Link is in the comment): Deep Dive #6: Foreign-Funded NGOs in India #India #FCRA #NGO #ForeignFunding #DataAnalysis #PublicPolicy #Philanthropy #Research #IndiaPolicy #CrisisAxis

@Mariamistan Pakistan is the mothership of terrorism and USA has a policy of good terrorist and bad terrorist. Match made in heaven.

Praising Pakistan without acknowledging its role in sheltering Osama bin Laden, supporting the Taliban for decades, and allowing terrorist safe havens that cost America thousands of lives sends the wrong message. U.S. policy should reward accountability, not revisionist history. Americans should not be bank rolling a terrorist state!