Inflation in Pakistan skyrocketed to the highest in half a century—making it the 17th most expensive country in the world—after the government massively raised energy and fuel prices coupled with the adverse impacts of currency devaluation and imports at a halt. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), the inflation monitor, rose to 31.5 per cent in February […]Read More
Pakistan’s President has accepted the recommendations of the Election Commission by setting April 30 as the date for elections to the Punjab Assembly, hours after the poll body proposed the exercise be conducted between April 30 and May 7, preferably on a Sunday. The electoral body, which met for a third consecutive day on Friday, […]Read More
Myanmar junta boss Min Aung Hlaing called India a good neighbour and friend as he visited the bilateral Kaladan transport project in Myanmar this week and demanded its rapid completion. The multi-modal project connects Kolkata with Sittwe in Rakhine State by sea. In Myanmar, the project will link the Sittwe seaport to Paletwa in Chin […]Read More
A court in Colombo has released Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe from the respondent status in 108 cases filed by the families of victims of the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks, who are seeking compensation. But the district court said the prosecution had the right to rename him as a respondent and pursue the cases […]Read More
US Congress Targets South Africa Over Ties With Russia, China The US Congress is pressing President Joe Biden to take a tougher stance against South Africa over its deepening ties to Russia and China. In his first act as chairman of the newly revamped House Foreign Affairs panel on Africa, Republican John James of Michigan […]Read More
The Afghan Taliban have expressed their willingness to disarm the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and relocate its members from the Pak-Afghan border but with a condition that Islamabad will bear the cost of the proposed plan. This was revealed at the meeting of the Central Apex Committee, presided by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday, […]Read More
The provincial government of Sindh in Pakistan has imposed a three-month ban on carrying and displaying weapons in the province, reported Express News. According to the notification issued by the government, the ban will be effective immediately. It noted that Police Rangers and law enforcement agencies will be exempted from this order. Heads of all […]Read More
Pakistani Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Friday said that the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) had received $700 million from the China Development Bank (CDB) in a much-needed boost to forex reserves as the country grapples with a worsening economic crisis. Earlier this month, the country’s foreign exchange reserves slipped to an alarming level of […]Read More
Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has described the controversial Confucius Institutes run by the Chinese Communist Party as “propaganda centres” while calling on Australia to exercise more caution when engaging with Beijing. Confucius Institutes have been touted as a Chinese cultural and language programme but the centres have been under increasing scrutiny for their […]Read More
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe won’t sign verdicts delivered by any court of law in the country to implement capital punishment, the attorney general has told the Supreme Court. A five judge bench is hearing a bunch of petitions filed against resumption of death penalty proposed in 2019 by then President Maithripala Sirisena. On June […]Read More
New Delhi: Exactly a year since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in our special series on the war, Ambassador D.B.Venkatesh Varma, India’s Envoy to Russia from September 2018 to October 2021 in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Ambassador Varma assesses “India has acquitted itself very well” during “a year of considerable stress […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The economic destabilisation caused by Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine are there to see. From rising fuel and fertilizer prices to the shortage of food grain. Yet, the reverse is also true, argues P S Raghavan, Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board and former ambassador to Russia. In this chat on The […]Read More
New Delhi: In the second of our special series on the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Brigadier Ben Barry(Retd), Senior Fellow for Land Warfare, International Institute for Strategic Studies(IISS) London, Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies, King’s College, Author,’Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and […]Read More
South Africa’s Naval Drills With Russia, China Strains Ties With West South Africa is hosting a joint naval exercise, Exercise Mosi II, with Russia and China. The Russian military frigate Admiral Gorshkov” was greeted by protests when it arrived in Cape Town harbour ahead of naval exercises hosted by South Africa from February 17 to […]Read More
Security forces cleared a five-storey police building in Karachi on the city’s main thoroughfare in an hours-long operation during which three terrorists were killed while four others died on Friday evening. At least 19 men, mostly security personnel, were injured in the exchange of fire with Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorists who stormed the heavily guarded […]Read More
With Nepal’s presidential election scheduled early next month, talks and serious bargaining are going on between major parties, particularly the Nepali Congress, CPN-UML and the CPN (Maoist Centre). Congress leaders have reportedly met Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ and offered to revive their pre-election alliance after the presidential election slated for March 9. Prachanda […]Read More
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced that his party would launch ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’ (court arrest movement) on February 22 to protest what he called a government crackdown on his party members. In a video address, Khan who is also chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) said the movement would begin from Lahore and […]Read More
Tourist arrivals in Sri Lanka have crossed the 50,000 mark in the first two weeks of February, reigniting hopes of a faster recovery in the tourism sector, one of the mainstays of the island nation’s battered economy. According to provisional data from the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA), 54,685 international visitors entered the country […]Read More
A top Chinese investment banker has gone missing, his company has said. China Renaissance Holdings told the Hong Kong Stock Exchange earlier this week it had not been able to reach its chief executive Bao Fan. The company didn’t give further details but the announcement led the firm’s stock to tumble about 30 per cent. […]Read More
Pakistan’s upper house of parliament saw a heated debate between the treasury and the opposition members on Friday over Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial’s remarks. Heading a bench hearing an appeal against the amendments to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) laws, Chief Justice Bandial observed that the problems facing the country could only be addressed […]Read More
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