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Roving Periscope: The Tatas’ market cap is more than Pakistan’s economy!

February 19, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Facing bankruptcy and dependency on foreign doles and repeated loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for years, Pakistan’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is now less than India’s Tata Group’s combined market capitalization! The Tata Group’s overall market capitalization is around USD 365 billion, or more than INR 30 trillion, […]

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Roving Periscope: As Imran fields Omar Ayub, the Sharif-Bhutto combine panics in Pakistan

February 17, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: With jailed former Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi suddenly fielding former minister Omar Ayub Khan, grandson of ex-dictator “Field Marshal” Ayub Khan, as his prime ministerial candidate, the Sharif-Bhutto alliance has panicked and trying to poach into the former cricket star’s group of ‘independent’ winners. Meanwhile, the media reported […]

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Enemy No. 1: Alexei Navalny, President Putin’s worst critic, dies in Russian jail

February 16, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Prominent Russian leader Alexei Navalny, who was in jail since January 2021 because of his trenchant opposition to President Vladimir Putin, died on Friday, the media reported. His death came a month before the 71-year-old President Putin’s “election” for the fifth term. Russia is scheduled to go to the polls […]

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Pakistan: SC tells ‘govt’ to commit that the Army runs no businesses!

February 15, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Pakistan’s all-powerful Army, which has run the troubled country unchecked for most of the years since 1947 and has lost all wars it fought and won all the elections it did not contest, is passing through bure din (bad days) or a rough patch. After its friend-turned-foe Imran Khan gave […]

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Roving Periscope: With PPP twisting his arm, Nawaz nominates Shehbaz as the next PM

February 14, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Since Mian Muhammed Nawaz Sharif remained in self-exile in London (2018-2023), the Pakistan Army selected his brother Shehbaz to replace friend-turned-foe Imran Khan as the Prime Minister in April 2022. Now, as the Sharif Senior cannot become the PM, he has selected his younger brother Shehbaz to succeed him. According […]

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Ahlan Modi: Bad weather threatens the Indian PM’s events in the UAE

February 13, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: With the United Arab Emirates (UAE) witnessing heavy rains ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to participate in various programs, including Ahlan Modi (Hello Modi), the inclement weather threatened to mar his two-day visit to the Arab nation that has attracted a lot of global attention because of […]

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Roving Periscope: Pakistan Army tries to win the polls its selected politicians lost!

February 13, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: The Pakistanis famously joke that their all-powerful army has never won a war and never lost an election! They are seeing it repeat once again. And in the Adiala jail in Rawalpindi, the headquarters of the Pakistan Army, the man the boots love to hate is laughing aloud! For, even […]

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Roving Periscope: Army-herded old goats gang up to keep Imran’s younger flock away from power

February 12, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Despite all the odds, former cricket star-turned-politician Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi has effectively turned the tables not only on the hitherto all-powerful Pakistani Army but also on the Old Guards in traditional political parties. For, even after remaining behind wars since August 2023, watching his political outfit’s near disintegration, and […]

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Economy: FM lambasts UPA for ‘family first’ policies, leaving India in ‘dire straits’ by 2014

February 9, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: A day after tabling the White Paper in Parliament, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday lambasted the previous Congress-led UPA government for its mismanagement of the economy, saying the party put “family first” in all policies and left the country in “dire straits” by 2014, but it is now lecturing […]

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Roving Periscope: Even after sham ‘elections,’ jailed former Pak PM Imran Khan may have the last laugh!

February 9, 2024 revoi editor

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: With its largest organized political outfit—Pakistan Army—holding sham ‘elections’ to the National Assembly on Thursday, and its sponsored prime ministerial hopeful Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif’s political outfit not getting the ‘desired’ results, the troubled South Asian nation seemed heading for fresh uncertainties. Despite the military’s all-out efforts to crush its […]

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