Category : External Affairs

Ironically, the two parties, supposedly devoted to Parliamentary supremacy in a democratic Pakistan, have done more to strengthen the Army’s stranglehold on Pakistan’s politics than any other groups. By Sant Kumar Sharma “History will hold all of us responsible for circumventing the parliamentary and democratic process,” a former Senator of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) […]Read More

The recent efforts toward mutual accommodation between Beijing and Washington have been influenced by their immediate interests in alleviating tensions. BY Diksha Bharti  U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping engaged in a formal telephonic conversation on April 2 in an effort to keep tensions between the two countries at a simmer. The […]Read More

In the last 60 years, Pakistan has turned to IMF for loans no fewer than 22 times. It is perhaps a record transaction that IMF has made over time. Pakistan’s each encounter with the IMF has never been without complications. By K N Pandita Bailout “The recent staff-level agreement (SLA) came after an eight-month delay in […]Read More

ISI is the diehard group which has always played an effective role in scuttling any chance of the two countries coming close to resolving the Kashmir issue. By K N Pandita The Pakistan army’s new ISPRO, Maj. Gen. Ahmad Sharif came out – for the first time after the change of guard at the highest level […]Read More

Today, India has far deeper relations with Tajikistan which encompass not only the security concern but many other areas as well. BY K N PANDITA Of late Central Asian Republic of Tajikistan has become a region of great strategic and economic cum cultural interest to our country and its importance will surely increase with the […]Read More

BY RHEA SINHA Although India has abstained from recognising the Taliban government, it has extended humanitarian aid amidst the ongoing food crisis. In what is a significant diplomatic development, the first consignment of 2,500 metric tonnes of Indian wheat was carted from Attari to Kabul on 22 February. The Indian aid comes at a time […]Read More

BY NAVDEEP SURIBeyond the ambitious project proposals, the real significance of the MoU lay in its ‘official’ underpinning—the fact that it was signed by Mohammed Ibrahim Al Shaibani, Director General of the Ruler’s Court in the Government of Dubai and Ranjan Prakash Thakur, Principal Secretary, Industry in the Government of J&K. When Shri Manoj Sinha, Lieutenant […]Read More

BY DR SAROJ KUMAR RATH On 24 November 2021, Japanese Ambassador Takashi Okada met Taliban Deputy Prime Ministers Abdul Ghani Baradar and Abdul Kabir and expressed his country’s willingness to open an embassy in Kabul. The Japanese Government clarified that they are coordinating with other countries about the timing of the resumption of the embassy […]Read More

BY: SAMMRIDH VARMA PUBLISHED ON MAY 16, 2021 In the global fight against the ongoing pandemic, one of the important questions in many people’s minds is “when will I be able to receive my dose of vaccine?” While India tries to battle the second wave and its health infrastructure remains distressed, it has been administering […]Read More

BY: NIRANJAN MARJANI PUBLISHED ON APRIL 04, 2021 India is set to welcome Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen later this month. She will be the first foreign leader to visit India since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. Frederiksen’s visit is a part of India’s accelerated outreach to Nordic countries. In the […]Read More