NEW DELHI: Pakistan will remain on the Grey List of global terror watchdog FATF (Financial Action Task Force). Giving StratNews Global a sneak preview of the FATF verdict on Friday, Western diplomatic sources said that since the ruling is purely on the technical parameters laid down for Pakistan to clean up its act, no political […]Read More

NEW DELHI: “There’s always a problem between lakhs and millions.” With that, government sources steered the media away from questions regarding U.S. President Trump’s claim in Washington DC the other day that millions would welcome him on his forthcoming visit to India. In fact, the sources indicated “no big ticket announcements” during Trump’s 36-hour long […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As was expected in the run up to the plenary meeting of the global terror financing watchdog FATF (Financial Action Task Force), there are already indications that Pakistan will escape the noose—it will not be pushed into the ‘blacklist’. A FATF sub-group that looked into the measures India’s neighbour has taken during the […]Read More

NEW DELHI: When it rains it pours. The drying up of clarity over electoral uncertainty for almost five months and suspenseful skepticism about stop-start talks with the Taliban for over 14 months has turned into a deluge of claims and counter-claims in Afghanistan. The official final results of the Presidential election give Ashraf Ghani a […]Read More

NEW DELHI: “The (Coronavirus) epidemic is generally under control and the dawn is beginning to appear through our arduous efforts.” With those words (and a trifle optimistically), Sun Weidong, China’s Ambassador to India, held the first briefing for the Indian media on the virus which has severely damaged his country’s international standing and disrupted global […]Read More
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