Recent data shows that iPhone exports from India have grown sharply, and one report says Apple’s Indian vendors exported iPhones worth about $21.5 billion in FY26

The ongoing crisis in PoJK represents the climax of decades of structural deprivation. The relationship between Islamabad and Muzaffarabad remains fundamentally parasitic.

This question is particularly relevant for Ladakh, a strategically significant and environmentally fragile region facing multiple, often competing, priorities.

The country at the center of this story, India, started shifting its crude import strategy sharply after March 2026. Before this, it mostly relied on oil from West Asia, especially from nations like Iraq, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait. But when the Strait of Hormuz disruptions began, those traditional flows became risky and expensive. 

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has been stripped of Poland's highest state honour, the Order of the White Eagle. The decision was taken by Poland after Ukraine named a military unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, accused of carrying out a genocide of the Poles.