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Defence

Broke-in-arms: Now bankrupt Islamabad ‘warns’ of Kabul’s economic collapse!

November 12, 2021 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: At least one thing about Pakistan is certain: it never ceases to amuse and surprise others! Even if it means the pot calling the kettle black!! Now, Islamabad, itself in a hand-to-mouth existence and facing an acute financial crisis for a variety of reasons, has warned Kabul about a potential […]

Business

“Tyranny of Big Tech”: Donald Trump to launch own platform in Nov

October 21, 2021 virendra pandit

New Delhi: Former US President Donald Trump, banned by Facebook and Twitter since January 2021, on Thursday, announced to launch his own social media platform, known as TRUTH Social App, next month. With his successor US President Joe Biden’s plummeting ratings across America in the last six months, Trump seems upbeat and may announce his […]

Defence

Roving Periscope: In a first, US dubs China India’s “aggressor”

October 21, 2021 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: For the first time, the USA has officially dubbed China an “aggressor” against India along the Himalayan border, a development that might speed up the manifestation of an “Asian NATO”. Embroiled in internal problems like enfeebling economy and loss of face globally, China has been trying to divert its people’s attention […]

Defence

Afghanistan: With Baradar’s return, Kabul may witness Taliban’s factional war

October 6, 2021 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Afghanistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who crafted the Taliban deal for the withdrawal of US-led forces, returned to Kabul on Wednesday, with the Afghan Pashtun fighters replacing his personal security and rejecting the one provided by the rival Haqqani Network component of the Islamist militia. This has […]

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Afghanistan: Amid rumours of top leaders’ fate, Taliban appoint deputy ministers

September 21, 2021 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While the Afghans, and the world, speculated about the death of two of top Taliban leaders—supreme spiritual leader and head of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Hibatullah Akhundzada and Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar—the Islamist militia on Tuesday announced a list of “deputy ministers” in Kabul. On September […]

Business

Terror: Modi calls for SCO template to deal with extremism, radicalization

September 17, 2021 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who turned 71 on Friday, has called for developing a joint template by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to effectively deal with the mounting challenges of extremism and radicalization. Virtually addressing the 21st annual SCO Council of Heads of States Summit held at Dushanbe, Tajikistan, he […]

Business

Afghanistan: IMF suspends engagement with Taliban govt

September 17, 2021 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Deeply concerned with dire economic conditions in war-torn Afghanistan, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has dealt it a body blow by suspending its engagement with the Taliban-controlled country until the world recognizes its interim and rather unstable government studded by proscribed terrorists. The US had already frozen USD 9.5 billion […]

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Defence

Afghanistan: A volcano even fire-spitting Dragon dare not step into

August 16, 2021 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After a two-decade-long hiatus, the Taliban’s returning to absolute power in Kabul on Sunday has once again turned Afghanistan into a cauldron no ‘superpower’ is ready to step into this “graveyard of empires”. Not even the wannabe ‘superpower’ People’s Republic of China (PRC). With America abandoning Kabul quickly, and President […]

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Muslim women: Triple talaq cases down 80%, says Naqvi

August 2, 2021 virendra pandit

Avya Mathur New Delhi: Within two years of the law against triple talaq, which Parliament passed on July 30, 2019, the number of divorce cases involving Muslim women has come down by around 80 percent, Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said here on Sunday. Before Parliament passed the Muslim Women (Protection […]

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Roving Periscope: Why China dreads a resurgent Taliban retaking Kabul’s control?

July 14, 2021 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the US-led multinational troops from 36 nations withdrawing all their soldiers by September 2021 from war-ravaged Afghanistan after 20 years, China is worried that the newly-resurgent Taliban could spur Islamic militancy in neighbouring Muslim-dominated Eastern Turkestan (which China calls “Xinjiang”, meaning New Territory). The US insistence to return from […]