Tag: New Delhi
Defying diplomatic norms: New Delhi boycotts Pakistan Day Celebrations
News Desk | The Indian High Commission based in Islamabad has announced its decision to not attend the Pakistan Day Parade on 23rd March, despite...
India, Pakistan threatened to unleash missiles at each other: sources
Sanjeev Miglani & Drazen Jorgic | The sparring between India and Pakistan last month threatened to spiral out of control and only interventions by U.S....
New alliance increases pressure on Modi’s ruling BJP
AFP | Two regional parties that were former bitter rivals announced an unlikely alliance Saturday to fight Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Hindu nationalist...
India rebuffs Trump over ‘Afghan library’ swipe
AFP | India rejected US President Donald Trump’s comments mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for funding a library in Afghanistan, saying on Thursday that New...
Who uses library in Afghanistan: Trump mocks Modi
News Desk | US President Donald Trump on Wednesday mocked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for funding a library in Afghanistan, suggesting it was of...
ICC boss ‘confident’ of corruption-free World Cup
AFP | The head of cricket's world body said Wednesday he is confident of a corruption-free 2019 World Cup as the sport works overtime to...
Six dead in Occupied Kashmir violence ahead of polls
AFP | Six people were killed in mounting violence ahead of local elections in Kashmir as Indian authorities imposed a curfew and suspended mobile internet...
Six killed in Kashmir, days after India cancels Pakistan talks
AFP | An Indian soldier and five suspected militants have died in fighting in Kashmir, the army said Monday, just days after high-level talks with...
Foreign Minister arrives in New York for United Nations General Assembly...
News Analysis | The foreign minister of Pakistan, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, left for New York on Saturday the 22nd of September to attend the 73rd...
PM’s tweet: An end of Indian appeasement?
News Analysis | Amid the inflammatory and threatening statement from Indian Army Chief Bipin Rawat, Pakistan’s government, and Army offered a measured response against a...
Hope for peace talks tumble as India calls off UNGA meeting
News Analysis | The Indian government has rescinded its decision to accept Pakistan’s proposal for a meeting between the Foreign Ministers on the sidelines of...
Article 35-A: Indian SC defers hearing to January 2019 as IOK...
News Analysis | The Supreme Court on Friday deferred to January 2019 the hearing over a clutch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of Article...
Deadlock in Pakistan-India water talks
News Analysis | No headway has been made in talks on usage and distribution of water between India and Pakistan. The talks began two days...
Indian shock at rape and sexual assault cases emerging from Churches...
News Analysis | The Indian Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday expressed shock at the rape and sexual assault cases which are emerging from churches in...
Transformation in global politics
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | The transformation in the global politics entailing strategic realignment at the regional and global levels has been ensuing new challenges...
Bollywood star Chopra apologises over ‘Quantico’ Hindu terror plot
AFP | Bollywood superstar Priyanka Chopra apologised Sunday after a furore over a US TV series that showed her uncovering a terror plot hatched by...
Nuclear weapons solidifying defensive fence
Dr Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | PAKISTAN has been encountering an existential threat since 1947. India has not reconciled with its sovereign survival. New Delhi did...
Spy Chronicles: A one-sided narrative
Murtaza Shibli | Pakistan’s former spy chief, General Asad Durrani, is facing flak. His former colleagues in the army are fuming for his latest endeavour...
Kashmir: Ramadan break from violence?
Murtaza Shibli | The recent announcement by New Delhi to halt its military operations in Kashmir that seek to kill nominally trained and scantly armed...
Indian diplomat found guilty of spying for ISI
News Analysis | On Friday, In an espionage case involving an alleged love affair between an Indian diplomat and a Pakistani ISI agent, a Delhi...
China & India strive to make peace: hold summit after border...
AFP | Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek to repair strained ties at a summit on Friday after an...
Indian Paramilitary soldiers killed in the Northeast
News Analysis | A homemade bomb exploded in India's remote Northeast, killing two paramilitary soldiers and wounding two civilians, police said. On Wednesday, rebels exploded...
Indian engineers abducted in Afghanistan as New Delhi’s footprint in Afghanistan...
News Analysis | Seven Indian engineers of an RPG group company working in Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province were abducted on Sunday by Taliban gunmen who...
Buddha Diplomacy: Pakistan uses its inter-religious past to build modern ties
News Analysis | India's bid to invoke Lord Buddha in its outreach to some of its neighbors now faces a new challenge and it comes...
Will India calm down after China’s clarification over military designs in...
News Analysis | Pakistan’s longstanding ally, China has categorically rubbished rumors that it had military designs in its mind, in the development of multi-billion Dollars...
Modi’s visit expected to ease India-China tensions
News Analysis | Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China this week for an informal meeting with President Xi Jinping, as efforts at rapprochement...
India fumes over pro-Khalistan posters in Pakistan
News Analysis | India, on Monday, accused Pakistan of trying to incite Indian Sikh pilgrims by raising the issue of “Khalistan” through inflammatory statements and...
Indo-Russia military ties face strains due to New Delhi’s attitude
News Analysis | India is reducing its dependence on Russia for critical defense programs, with the joint venture BrahMos missile set to be guided by...
Summit Sabotage: India mulls boycott of SAARC event
News Analysis | Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has conveyed to his Nepalese counterpart KP Sharma Oli about India’s firm opposition to the staging of...
Collapsing Reach: Is Chabahar the next Indian strategic defeat?
News Analysis | The Iranian port of Chabahar, touted to be the lynchpin of the “great Indian move to circumvent Pakistan” seems to be on...
India puts Pakistani diplomat on most wanted list
News Analysis | India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) has put a Pakistani diplomat to its list of people wanted for carrying out various acts of...
An Indian counter narrative on Maldives
M K Bhadrakumar | The Maldives is back in the headlines. This time around, it is not about democracy deficit or rule of law. Two...
OPCW vote & South Asia: Why Pakistan backed Russia but India...
Andrew Korybko | Russia’s failed effort to get the OPCW to open up a joint investigation of the Skripal case importantly proved that the South...
India feels the heat as Maldives grows more Independent
News Analysis | The government has been closely monitoring the evolving situation in the Maldives and keeping a constant watch on all developments that have...
US expects India to engage Pakistan in Kashmir talks
M K Bhadrakumar | The Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs in the US State Department Alice Wells is visiting India...
Indian Occupied Kashmir burns as killings increase
News Analysis | Massive anti-India protests erupted in several parts of the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir on Sunday amid fierce fighting between rebels and government...