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Pakistan: In one case, HC suspends Imran’s conviction; in another, he will remain there, for now!

August 29, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Incarcerated in the Attock District Jail since August 5, Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi had little to cheer about on Tuesday when the Islamabad High Court suspended his conviction in the Toshakhana corruption case as he will remain in ‘judicial remand’ in the cipher case for now. Serving as Pakistan’s Prime […]

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Roving Periscope: Imprisoned, ex-Pak PM Imran now “satisfied” with jail facilities!

August 28, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Although they are multiple crisis-ridden, many people in Pakistan have never lost their sense of black humor. For example, when the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 landed on the southern pole of the Moon last week, a Pakistani man told a TV news channel with a straight face that Pakistan need not […]

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Roving Periscope: Trump arrested, released; now 2 IndAms fight to replace him!

August 25, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: While Donald Trump became the first US President to surrender, got arrested, and released, as officials even took his mugshot for police records on Thursday, two Indian-Americans vied to replace him as the Republican candidate in the next year’s presidential election. In a first, these candidates—former US Ambassador to the […]

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Roving Periscope: Amid fears, India supports BRICS’ expansion

August 21, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid apprehensions that any expansion of the five-nation bloc of emerging economies—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS)—by inducting new members could potentially turn it into an anti-West platform, New Delhi on Monday supported the move, on the eve of the group’s 15th Summit beginning in Johannesburg, South Africa. […]

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Roving Periscope: Dark days ahead as China’s real estate bubble bursts

August 19, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: And, the wolf has finally knocked on the Dragon’s doors! A year after China’s humongous real estate sector, which contributes as much as a third to the Asian nation’s GDP, came under a cloud, Evergrande, the biggest player in the property market has filed for bankruptcy, the media reported on […]

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Defence

Roving Periscope: After targeting the Hindus, Pak Islamists pounce on Christians

August 17, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Barely 48 hours after the outgoing Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led rickety coalition installed a caretaker government headed by a relatively unknown Baloch leader, Pakistan’s season of targeting minorities ahead of the next elections returned. This time, the militants’ target was not the Hindus, Ahmadiyya, or the Shias, but the Christians. […]

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Roving Periscope: Niger’s junta to prosecute toppled President for ‘high treason’

August 14, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Western African landlocked nation Niger’s military regime announced on Sunday to prosecute ousted President Mohamed Bazoum for “high treason” and slammed West African leaders for imposing sanctions on the country. On Saturday last week, New Delhi advised about 250 Indians stranded in Niger, a former French colony, to leave the […]

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Roving Periscope: Now, Pak SC throws a spanner in ex-PM Nawaz’s return from self-exile

August 11, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: In the ongoing political drama, Pakistan Supreme Court on Friday unanimously struck down a recently-passed judgments review law, which will now dim former Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif’s prospects to challenge his lifetime disqualification from contesting elections and return home. The apex court’s ruling came on the day his younger […]

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Confidence: From fragile to foremost economy in 9 years, says Sitharaman

August 10, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Asserting that the Indian economy is currently the fastest-growing in the world, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday that a global ranking company has moved its rating for India from fragile to foremost in the last 9 years of the Narendra Modi government. Addressing the Lok Sabha during the […]

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Roving Periscope: As Imran pleads ‘mercy’, and Shehbaz dissolves Parliament, bankrupt Pak sinks into uncertainty

August 9, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: As Pakistan Prime Minister Mohammad Shehbaz Sharif prepared to dissolve the National Assembly on Wednesday, and set up an interim government to hold the next general elections without his predecessor in the fray, his jailed predecessor Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi has virtually pleaded for mercy. “Take me out of here; […]

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