Why should we treat Ukraine as a model? Ever since 2019, with the BJP government getting re-elected, the western media has been shouting hoarsely about the ‘right-wing Hindutva movement’ in India. But more pertinent than ‘Is India really a right-wing country now’, is the question: Does the US have an issue with right-wing ideology? […]

Greek Defence Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos revealed in February 2021 that Greece and Turkey had almost gone to war three times in the summer of 2020 due to the crisis with the Turkish Oruç Reis research vessel violating Greece’s territorial waters. Turkey’s aggression was quiet in the summer of 2021 as the country was in the […]

The Afghanistan Factor Afghanistan stands to be one of the biggest influences in the rise of Islamism in Central Asia. The Islamic revolution in Iran of 1979, is the other one. But while Iran remains an inspiration mostly among the Tajik people who are the only non-Turkic ethnic group in the region, the Afghan jihad […]

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 five eventful years, Islamabad has named Qamar Zaman as a trade minister in the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi. The decision of appointing trade ministers to fifteen countries was taken in a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. However, Pakistan is yet to appoint a High Commissioner for India. The […]

BENGALURU: In 2009, Karan Johar was in the office of Yash Raj Films to meet his best friend Aditya Chopra. During their interaction in the cafeteria, Chopra, an ace producer and director, told Johar to look at an energetic young man playing table tennis. He informed him that this chap would be making his Bollywood […]

  NEW DELHI: Calling the style of politics of United States Congresswoman Ilhan Omar as “narrow-minded”, India on Thursday condemned her visit to the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) saying that it violated the country’s “territorial integrity and sovereignty”. Omar, a Somali American Muslim who belongs to US President Joe Biden’s Democratic Party, visited the PoK […]

  ISLAMABAD: Newly-elected Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s 34-member cabinet was sworn in on Tuesday, with the Senate chairman administering the oath to the new ministers as President Arif Alvi excused himself from the ceremony for second time. The ceremony was originally scheduled to take place on Monday but was postponed due to the illness […]

  NEW DELHI: Shahbaz Sharif — now the premier of Pakistan — who 10 years ago had visited his paternal village of Jati Umra on the Indian side of Punjab, knows the importance of ties he enjoyed with India and the risks he may invite at the cost of any untoward incident that his predecessors […]

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated his newly-elected Pakistani counterpart Shahbaz Sharif on Monday, and said that India desired peace and stability in a region free of terrorism. “Congratulations to H.E. Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on his election as the Prime Minister of Pakistan. India desires peace and stability in a region free of terror, […]