The issue of the appointment of the next army chief continues to occupy centrestage of Pakistan’s political discourse, with the government saying that it would be done according to the Constitution. The extended stay of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif along with his key advisers in London purportedly to discuss the appointment and other issues of national […]Read More
As Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) long march resumed after a week from Wazirabad, party chairman Imran Khan addressed the participants from his Lahore residence through a video link, reiterating his accusation that a senior army officer was behind his attempted assassination. He said “army officer Maj. Gen. Faisal Naseer masterminded and monitored my assassination plan” and demanded […]Read More
The Pakistani government has issued a diplomatic passport to PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif after clearance from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The passport has been issued for a period of five years and was sent to the PML-N leader through the Passport and Immigration Office, sources told The Express Tribune. The former government headed by Imran Khan […]Read More
The junta has advertised around 4,000 job openings in less than six weeks since the beginning of October—a sign that the mass strike by civil servants has had a huge impact and that the regime is still struggling to run its administrative mechanism including education and healthcare services. More than 3,000 job vacancies were advertised […]Read More
China Boosts Its Book Diplomacy China seems to be relying far more on books to promote a positive image of itself across the world. The trend which was noticeable at the Frankfurt Book Fair, one of the largest events of its kind, saw more than 1,000 different kinds of publications exhibited at the Chinese booths. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Ambassador Pankaj Saran, India’s Former Deputy National Security Adviser and Former Envoy to Russia in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. On India playing potential facilitator for dialogue and diplomacy in the Russia-Ukraine war, Ambassador Saran points to External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr S. Jaishankar “clarifying what […]Read More
NEW DELHI: A few weeks ago, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) raised its performance bar yet again when its commercial arm successfully placed 36 communication satellites of London-based OneWeb in Low Earth Orbit (LEO)—the new genre of satellites. The satellites—part of a constellation of owned by OneWeb—proposes to reinvent communication by enabling processing of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, from Moscow, Dr Maxim A. Suchkov, Director, Institute for International Studies as well as Advanced American Studies and Associate Professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) University in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Dr Suchkov discusses External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr S. Jaishankar’s […]Read More
KATHMANDU: Nepal elects a new government later this month. The buzz is Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba will return to power in alliance with Prachanda of the Maoist Centre and the latter may even emerge as prime minister. In this chat on The Gist, Amish Raj Mulmi, well known author of All Roads Lead North: […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Quad is one of the most significant foreign policy basket of initiatives, says Rear Admiral Sudharshan Shrikhande (Retd), former chief of India’s naval intelligence. It’s wrong to call it the Asian NATO or a gang of four as China sees it, he told StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale on ‘The Gist’. Great progress has […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It’s a major step towards atmanirbharta in defence under which a private sector entity would make military aircraft in India for the first time. According to the ₹22,000 crore deal, Airbus will deliver the first 16 C-295 transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force in ‘fly-away’ condition from Spain within four years. The […]Read More
Tik Tok Videos Help Women To Read China has made huge strides in improving access to education over recent decades with around 2.7% of the population today still unable to read, down from 4.1% in 2010. That’s however more than 37 million people and around three-quarters of them are women. In effect, they are the people that fell through […]Read More
Hours after Pakistan’s former PM Imran Khan accused the prime minister, interior minister and a spy agency officer of hatching a plot to assassinate him, federal ministers and the military denied the allegations, calling them unacceptable. “The baseless and irresponsible allegations by chairman PTI against the institution and particularly a senior army officer are absolutely […]Read More
The CPN-UML, the party to which former Nepal PM KP Sharma belongs, officially launched its election campaign for parliamentary and provincial polls from Darchula district by holding its first canvassing rally on Friday. The selection of the area was well thought out. In June 2020, when Oli was PM, Parliament unanimously endorsed a bill to amend […]Read More
Around 200 residents of Tibet’s capital Lhasa were detained in the wake of massive protests in the city last week against COVID lockdowns that left many restricted to their homes without adequate food or medical care. “Though many of these detainees are of Chinese origin, there are also a number of Tibetans coming from other […]Read More
A lobbyist for a Chinese company deemed a national security threat has donated thousands of dollars to at least eight Democratic congressional campaigns. Thomas Green, senior counsel at multinational law firm Sidley Austin and top lobbyist for Chinese telecom giant Huawei, personally contributed more than $10,000 across eight Democratic campaigns in the last month, according […]Read More
Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong has said sanctions might be imposed on Myanmar as its security and human rights situation deteriorates, although she did not suggest a timeframe. Speaking in Thailand, Wong said the case of jailed Australian economist Sean Turnell was a “top priority”, according to Reuters. The adviser to ousted State Counselor Daw […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘ from Moscow, Dr Nivedita Kapoor, Post-doctoral Fellow, International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism, Higher School of Economics (HSE) in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Dr Kapoor discusses the situation nine months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the battlefield position with winter ahead, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Over the last weeks and months we have had mixed tidings about the Indian economy, even while the situation for the world is going from bad to worse. In India, inflation continues to be defiant and the rupee has steadily lost ground to the dollar. On the other hand, as we just saw […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist’, in São Paulo, Professor Guilherme Casarões, a Political Scientist, Professor at the prestigious Fundação Getulio Vargas School of Business Administration (FGV EAESP), Foreign Policy & Far-Right movement analyst and Coordinator, Observatório da Extrema Direita (Extreme Right Observatory, Brazil) in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Professor Casarões explains the comeback from prison over corruption charges of two-time […]Read More
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