People belonging to different professionals with origins or roots in India and pakistan in Canada also issue statement against war hysteria and for peace News Desk At a time when divisive and warmongering narratives have strained Indo-Pak relations to virtually breaking point, Indian and Pakistani scholars and students of Oxford University held a solidarity demonstration at the Radcliffe Camera in …
WAGAH, Pakistani officials handed over a captured Indian pilot to a border crossing with India on Friday in a “gesture of peace” promised by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan amid a dramatic escalation with the country’s archrival over the disputed region of Kashmir. The pilot, identified as Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, was taken in a convoy that set out from …
Two nuclear-armed states shoot down each other’s planes The last time that Indian and Pakistani jets bombed one another’s territory was in 1971, during an all-out war. In that conflict more than 10,000 soldiers died, over 100 planes were shot out of the sky and Pakistan was torn asunder, as the new state of Bangladesh took shape. But then neither …
Robert Fisk WHEN I heard the first news report, I assumed it was an Israeli air raid on Gaza. Or Syria. Air strikes on a “terrorist camp” were the first words. A “command and control centre” destroyed, many “terrorists” killed. The military was retaliating for a “terrorist attack” on its troops, we were told. An Islamist “jihadi” base had been eliminated. Then I heard …
As President Donald Trump meets with North Korea’s dictator, military escalation in South Asia offers lessons. URI FRIEDMAN and KRISHNADEV CALAMUR What was most revealing about the first day of President Donald Trump’s summit in Vietnam with Kim Jong Un wasn’t the president’s characterization of his private conversation with the North Korean dictator (“Boy, if you could have heard that …
Indian portals go against tide, question govt’s take By Jawed Naqvi TRUTH they say is the first casualty in war, in some cases in peacetime too. How would the media realistically know beside the official handout that there was a bombing of a target in Balakot on Tuesday? Or, as the counter narrative went, how would anyone know that it was merely an …
HAH Report An important bridge connecting Tajikistan and Afghanistan across the Panj River reopened on the request of the Afghan authorities on Saturday, Asia-Plus reports. Dushanbe had closed the bridge for trade and travel in September last year due to increase in Taliban activities and drug trafficking in Afghan’s northern provinces. According to an official of the Main Border Guard …
Askar Nursha, a Kazakh political analyst, speaks about relations between Russia and Kazakhstan which were very warm from the very beginning but today raise alarming questions — what will happen next? He has published a book, Putinskaia Rossiia: geopoliticheskii revansh ili agressivnaia oborona? (Putin’s Russia: Geopolitical Revenge or Aggressive Defense?) which traces the evolution of relations between Russia and the …
HAH Report Islamabad A noted French thinker has called for promotion of social solidarity and integration amid growing inequality and discord to tackle global challenges. He stressed on prioritising social issues over strategic issues. Multilateralism has failed to resolve the very social issues such as food security, inequality, migration, and climate change.—Prof Badie The global governance system of multilateralism has …
FOCUS News Agency Moscow on Thursday lashed out at Western countries over Venezuela’s political crisis after the US and allies recognised opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim leader, sidelining President Nicolas Maduro, reported AFP. In the first official reaction from Moscow to the dramatic move against Maduro, foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova criticised the international community, which has lined up …
