Opinion

This final week of May 2022 is quite significant. There is a WEF summit going on in Davos, while Tokyo just witnessed the formation of a new economic bloc that has 12 countries – one that is being called the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework or IPEC. This summit was held on May 23 and was attended […]

The conventional thinking among the Indian population, those that are aware of the behemoth named CPEC, is that it is China’s way of encircling India by debt-trapping Pakistan into a project that Pakistan does not have the financial capacity to absorb. And they would be partially correct in assuming so. An infrastructural project of that […]

  We need to dig deep into the basics of the Gordian knot – the Kashmiri Pandits problem – if we are thinking of establishing a policy outline to undo the logjam. It is a complicated phenomenon. Therefore, I shall welcome constructive criticism. Kashmiri Pandits (KPs), who decided not to leave the valley in the […]

After turning barely a couple of pages under its new leadership, Afghanistan is in the news again. This time there brews trouble across several sectors. On April 18, a barrage of rockets were fired into Uzbekistan. While the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP) claimed responsibility for that, and through their official news agency Amaq […]

NEW DELHI: After years of silence over a betting scandal in cricket, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered two First Information Reports (FIRs) to probe the alleged betting and match-fixing in the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL) held in 2019, with clear links over a phone number traced to Pakistan. In the first […]