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Roving Periscope: Despite China brokering peace, Pakistan wary of Iran

January 20, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With China playing the peacemaker between two frenemies, the Pakistan-Iran tension after their tit-for-tat airstrikes against each other has blown over for now but Islamabad is still wary of Tehran’s next possible move. Both Shia Tehran and Sunni Islamabad are close allies of Beijing. And Pakistan is heading towards the […]

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The US: Ramaswamy quits, backs Trump’s presidential bid in 2024

January 16, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Indian-American and unapologetic Hindu Vivek Ramaswamy, 38, on Monday quit the presidential race for 2024 and supported former President Donald Trump, 77, who is trying to return to the White House a second time. Biotech millionaire Ramaswamy, who was also vying for a Republican nomination, dropped out of the 2024 […]

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Taiwan: China warns voters, condemns the US ahead of Prez poll on Saturday

January 12, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As Taiwan geared up for the Presidential election on Saturday, China warned voters to make the “right choice”, saying a win for the frontrunner William Lai could endanger relations of the self-ruled island nation with the mainland which claims it is it’s own. China also criticized “brazen chattering” by the […]

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Pakistan: Ahead of February NA polls, IMF approves a $ 700 mn loan tranche

January 12, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Even as Pakistan’s economy is expected to grow at a meager 2 percent in the fiscal year 2024, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) tried to keep Islamabad’s nose up from drowning in bankruptcy by sanctioning another loan tranche of USD 700 million, ahead of the February 8 elections to National […]

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Pakistan: SC upholds Musharraf’s death penalty—a year after he died!

January 10, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Pakistan doesn’t let even its dead leaders rest in peace! Nearly a year after he died of a disease, Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld former President General Pervez Musharraf’s death penalty in a treason case, the media reported. The ruling came when the Prime Minister he toppled to grab […]

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Ecuador: Gangsters declare “war” on the President after jailbreak, storm TV studio amid live broadcast

January 10, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In a dramatic development on Tuesday, Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa declared his South American nation in a state of “internal armed conflict” just hours after notorious gangsters and drug lords declared “war” against him in an escalating security crisis sparked by the prison escape of one of the country’s most […]

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Pakistan: Already jailed, Imran ‘arrested’ for attacks on the military premises

January 9, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nearly a month ahead of General Elections to the National Assembly, former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi, already behind bars since August 2023, was on Tuesday ‘arrested’ on charges of attacks on the army establishments in the troubled South Asian nation on May 9 last year. An Anti-Terrorism […]

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Roving Periscope: ‘China’s attack on Taiwan may cost the world USD 10 trillion’

January 9, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Alerts and warnings flooded mobile telephones across Taiwan on Tuesday as China fired a rocket over the south of the island state, just four days before Taipei goes to elections on January 13. It wasn’t a missile as Taiwan initially believed, but a satellite. But the mistrust between Beijing and […]

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Pakistan: SC clears Army-supported Nawaz’s return to power next month

January 8, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Pakistan Supreme Court on Monday scrapped the lifetime disqualification clause in the Constitution, paving the way for the possible return of three-time Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif to power after the February 8 election to the National Assembly, the media reported. The clause under Article 62 (1) (f) of […]

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Roving Periscope: Amid Islamist opposition boycott, Hasina wins 5th term in Bangladesh

January 8, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed won re-election for a fifth term, amid a boycott led by the main opposition party she branded a “terrorist organization,” the media reported on Monday. Until the latest reports became available, the media said, her political party Awami League (AL) won 223 seats out […]