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Pakistan: Imran still most popular, PM Shehbaz may not last 5 years, says IIF

April 2, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Pakistan may miss its targets in the current financial year as well, and the unstable country’s biggest challenge now is fiscal consolidation and reforms amid a weak coalition government and political instability stemming from accusations of electoral fraud, the Washington-based Institute of International Finance (IIF) has said. It also said that […]

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Roving Periscope: For the first time since 1948, Israel fights an existential crisis

April 2, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In a never-before situation, Israel, and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are firing on all cylinders—both within and without. The Jewish state has never been through such an existential crisis, nor have so many Jews demanded their current PM’s resignation amid a raging war. Like Russian President Vladimir Putin, he is […]

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Security: After Pakistan, Lanka and the Maldives, China tries to pit B’desh against India

April 1, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Like the US-led West, China is also trying to influence the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, and weaken the hold that Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government has come to exercise on the rising India since 2014. So, after manipulating Pakistan for decades, and then Sri Lanka and the Maldives to go anti-India […]

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Roving Periscope: In the Pannun case, India forces the US to ‘backtrack’

April 1, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: America’s recent efforts to corner India in the Khalistani extremist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun case may have boomeranged, and Washington is now trying to control the potential damage amid indications that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s NDA government is set to return to power in June for a third straight term—while the fate […]

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Pakistan: Without congratulating PM Shehbaz, Biden assures continuous support!

March 30, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi waited and waited in vain for years even for a telephonic call from the US Presidents—Donald Trump and Joe Biden—while he was Pakistan’s Prime Minister from 2018 to 2022. His successor, Mian Mohammed Shehbaz Sharif, is faring a little better. President Biden has written to him, assuring […]

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The US polls: Biden claims world leaders don’t want Trump to return!

March 30, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Making tall claims and promises spices up an election. But US President Joe Biden, 81, may have stolen a march on all others, including his rival Donald Trump, 77, as they face off to reclaim the White House in the November 2024 presidential elections. “Almost every world leader has told me […]

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Roving Periscope: Poll-clock ticking, under LLD pressure, the US harps on Kejriwal, again; adds Cong too

March 28, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Trying a second shot—and presumably the last—at the White House in November 2024, incumbent US President Joe Biden appears under extreme pressure from the liberal-left-democratic (LLD) cabal at home to take on India, whose Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “autograph” he had sought only last year. Biden, 81, is engaged in a […]

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Thailand: PM Thavisin feels proud as Parliament nods same-sex marriage!

March 27, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With its Parliament legalizing it, the Buddhist-majority Kingdom of Thailand has become the first Southeast Asian nation—and the world’s 26th—to make same-sex marriages lawful. Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said he was “proud” after the approval of the bill. “The passing (of this draft law) in the Parliament today is a proud […]

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Roving Periscope: Kejriwal’s arrest exposes those whose ‘asset’ he is!

March 27, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: It was known that the West’s liberal-left-democratic (LLD) cabal had, over the years, assiduously ‘promoted’ Arvind Kejriwal—who, in January 2014, famously pronounced himself as an “anarchist”—to prevent a rising India from cultivating a strong political leadership. Now his recent arrest in the liquor scam has exposed whose ‘asset’ he was! Remember, […]

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Espionage: The US and UK sanction China over cyberattacks

March 26, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: China has condemned the United States and the United Kingdom for imposing sanctions over alleged Chinese government-backed cyberattacks, calling the Western allies’ move an act of “political manipulation.” Washington and London on Monday announced a set of criminal charges and sanctions against seven Chinese hackers for allegedly conducting sweeping attacks on […]