KABUL: “We recommend that U.S. forces do not leave on May 1, 2021 unless the conditions in the February 2020 agreements (the U.S. Taliban Doha deal and the U.S.-Afghanistan Declaration) are made,” General (Retd) Joseph Dunford, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during most of Donald Trump’s presidency and also commanded […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point’ Ambassador Gautam Mukhopadhaya, India’s Former Envoy to Myanmar and Professor Azeem Ibrahim, Director, Centre for Global Policy, Research Professor, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College and Author of ‘The Rohingyas: Inside Myanmar’s Genocide’ discuss the constitutional coup in Myanmar, U.S., Indian and Chinese reactions and the implications for Nobel […]Read More
PUNE: Myanmar was to transition into a new phase of democracy on February 1, 2021. The ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) returned to parliament after winning the second election in a country with a long history of military rule. The victory was a signal that Myanmar was firming up the institutions of democracy and […]Read More
KABUL: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday met U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and discussed the way forward in Afghanistan. “Great meeting with Ambassador Khalilzad to discuss the way forward in Afghanistan: continuing to protect the US against the threat of terrorism, achieving a just and durable political settlement there, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It’s Pakistan’s biggest province, quite rich in resources such as natural gas, yet Balochistan remains the poorest and the most underdeveloped region in the country. The Balochs want greater autonomy for the region and there have been protests since the Pakistani nation came into existence in 1947. All those demands and several uprisings […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “The million dollar question is does the Taliban accept, endorse and acknowledge a totally different Afghanistan to what they left it as,” Tahir Qadiry, Afghanistan’s Chargé D’Affaires(CDA) in India asks, adding, “hopes are quite high, that the new Biden administration will take everything into consideration in the review of the agreement between the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Something’s not right in Sri Lanka’s handling of the East Container Terminal project, which India was to develop under a Memorandum of Cooperation(MoC) signed in 2019. Pressure from the port unions and ruling party politicians appears to have derailed it. Colombo has now offered India the West Container Terminal project, which does not […]Read More
NEW DELHI: After a decade of democracy, the Myanmar Military has seized power and put the country under emergency rule. There was massive fraud in the voter list for the general elections held last November, the junta says, claiming that emergency has been imposed as per constitutional provisions. In this video chat, StratNews Global Editor […]Read More
COLOMBO: The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) is set to offer 85 per cent stake in the West Container Terminal of the Colombo Port to India in order to retain 100 per cent ownership of the East Container Terminal (ECT), The Morning has reliably learnt. The shareholding has been split this way to allow India […]Read More
KABUL: U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan has said that they are “taking a hard look” at how the Taliban is complying with its agreement with the U.S. before deciding how to proceed. Sullivan told an online programme sponsored by the US Institute of Peace that the Taliban should participate in “real… […]Read More
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