NEW DELHI: The timing of Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s Strategic Dialogue with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi is “very significant” coming on the “heels of the very consequential spat between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia,” says Michael Kugelman, Deputy Director, Asia Programme at The Wilson Centre in Washington, D.C. Speaking to StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh […]Read More
NEW DELHI: With an elbow bump and broad smiles, ‘iron brothers’ China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi, reaffirmed their close ties on Friday. Adding to their celebration was President Xi Jinping lauding the CPEC (China Pak Economic Corridor) as the key to closer ties, and describing the two countries […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s outburst against Saudi Arabia is part domestic compulsion, part unwillingness to recognise global realities, Aparna Pande says on ‘Talking Point’, while Shuja Nawaz warns “Pakistan will lose if it swings like a pendulum between Saudi Arabia and China.” Pakistan’s Army Chief and ISI DG returned from Saudi Arabia this week without meeting […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In a week that saw the fluttering to life of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), a political party that had been all but written off because of the indifferent health of its founder Nawaz Sharif, a rift out in the open between Pakistan and its long-time mentor Saudi Arabia could presage the end of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: ‘A storm in a teacup’ or just a hiccup. Either way (or worse), Pakistan’s long-standing ties with Saudi Arabia—a relationship leavened by Islam, oil and periodic infusions of cash—are under intense scrutiny ever since Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi warned in a TV chat show in Islamabad on Wednesday that if the Saudis […]Read More
NEW DELHI: An exercise in political absurdity. That’s how India snubbed the new political map released by Pakistan a day before the first anniversary of India scrapping Article 370 that gave special status to J&K. Ever since India split J&K into two union territories on August 5 last year, Pakistan has cried hoarse and tried […]Read More
NEW DELHI: They are ‘Iron Brothers’, but it is on twitter that the Pakistan-China bond appears strongest. Using fake Chinese names and pictures, an army of Pakistani troll warriors have unleashed a massive disinformation campaign against India post-Galwan. The idea is two-fold – to make Indian twitterati and India think China is attacking them, and […]Read More
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
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