KABUL: The number of foreign fighters on the battlefields in the eastern parts of Afghanistan has increased, with most of them Pakistani nationals who are fighting alongside the Taliban in areas along the Durand Line, an Afghan Army general said on Monday. A report submitted to the United Nations Security Council on Sunday indicated that […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Collaboration among Oxford University, AstraZeneca and Pune-based Serum Institute of India for a COVID-19 vaccine (Covishield) is a ‘great model’ of ‘research in the UK’ and potentially ‘manufacture in India’, says Ruchi Ghanashyam, who was India’s High Commissioner to the UK till April 2020. Speaking to Amitabh P. Revi, Associate Editor, StratNews Global, she […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India may be forced to knock at the doors of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to get “unimpeded, unhindered and unconditional” consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav, the former Indian navy officer sentenced to death by a Pakistani army tribunal on the charge of spying. The consular access given last week to Jadhav […]Read More
NEW DELHI: For all his promises of working to improve the lot of his country’s religious minorities, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has had to capitulate to the will of Muslim clerics, radical elements and political parties protesting against the plan to build a Hindu temple in the capital Islamabad and put the project on […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Despite their “all weather friendship”, China has done little to check the trafficking and exploitation of young and desperately poor Pakistani Christian women by Chinese nationals. Nor for that matter has Islamabad, which has chosen to turn a blind eye to Pakistani women forced into marriages with Chinese men. The parents of these […]Read More
“We are ready to face any kind of punishment, even death, if our demands are illegal and unconstitutional. But all other people who signed the agreements should also face the same punishment.” —Sardar Akhtar Mengal, president, Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) in The Express Tribune “[The government] is worried more about Kashmir than Balochistan. [The government] […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan, like the rest of the world, has been busy battling the Covid-19 pandemic with the numbers having spiked ever since the government lifted the lockdown on May 31. By Saturday morning, according to the Pak government, the total number of Covid-19 positive cases had surged to 93,983, with 4,734 cases being reported […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Tit-for-tat: after India expelled two Pakistan High Commission staffers on Sunday for spying and asked them to leave the country within 24 hours, the Pak foreign office in Islamabad summoned the Indian Cd’A on Monday and issued a demarche protesting the action. The two Pakistanis—Abid Hussain Abid, assistant in the trade fair section and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In 2018, Imran Khan became Pakistan’s Prime Minister promising to be the ‘all-rounder’ he once was for his country on the cricket field. His election manifesto was titled ‘The Road to Naya Pakistan’. Two years later, the road seems endless, the destination far from sight. The country’s finances are in a parlous state, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: So many years after the Vietnam War, the US military continues to search for those still missing, or for the remains of those killed. India seems curiously devoid of any such sentiment. How else, asks writer Chander Suta Dogra, can one explain the relative indifference with which India has approached the issue of […]Read More
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