KARACHI: Even at the best of times, it’s tough being part of a minority community in Pakistan. The Chinese virus pandemic that has affected over 1800 people in India’s western neighbour hasn’t blurred the administrative indifference towards Hindus and Christians. In the narrow bylanes of Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city and the country’s financial nerve centre, minorities […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan has indicated it will participate in a SAARC video conference proposed by India, to fight the Coronavirus. The Pakistani assent came through the official twitter handle of the foreign ministry late Friday said, “We have communicated that the SAPM on Health will be available to participate in the video conference of SAARC […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Two countries with similar records when it comes to terror financing but on Friday the FATF (Financial Action Task Force) rendered two different rulings. Pakistan on the FATF grey list has been warned to fulfil its commitments by June on the FATF-mandated Action Plan or face the music in terms of financial sanctions. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan will remain on the Grey List of global terror watchdog FATF (Financial Action Task Force). Giving StratNews Global a sneak preview of the FATF verdict on Friday, Western diplomatic sources said that since the ruling is purely on the technical parameters laid down for Pakistan to clean up its act, no political […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As was expected in the run up to the plenary meeting of the global terror financing watchdog FATF (Financial Action Task Force), there are already indications that Pakistan will escape the noose—it will not be pushed into the ‘blacklist’. A FATF sub-group that looked into the measures India’s neighbour has taken during the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The conviction of UN-designated terrorist and 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed by a Pak court has come almost on cue. The terror watchdog FATF (Financial Action Task Force) has a crucial plenary meeting where it will assessed if Pakistan has done enough to crack down on terror funding and money laundering and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There’s a sense of the farcical in Hafiz Saeed’s conviction by a Pakistani court. He was found guilty of arranging funds for terrorist organisations, not for actually running terrorist strikes against India including the Mumbai attacks in November 2008. The five and a half year sentence (two convictions to run concurrently) comes loaded […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Myanmar last week has left more questions than answers. StratNews Global learns that only two agreements were signed and these were about shoring up the existing agreement on Kyuakhphyu deep-sea port in Rakhine state and the feasibility study of a railway line from Yunnan to Mandalay (feasibility […]Read More
“Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” —Sun Tzu on the ‘Art of War’ (III.2) MUMBAI: India’s relations with Pakistan have been frosty for the last many years. When India isn’t actually fighting the Pakistani strategy of death by […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Will he, won’t he? That’s the big question after India on Thursday said Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will be invited for the summit of heads of government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in New Delhi, later this year. Raveesh Kumar, Spokesman of the Ministry of External Affairs, said: “As per established […]Read More
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