The latest confrontation between India and Pakistan involving tit-for-tat air raids has heightened tensions in South Asia. To begin with, the suicide attack on a paramilitary convoy in Kashmir by Islamist extremist group Jaish-e-Mohammad killed...
The press has universally declared this week’s summit between President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam a “failure.” From the headlines of the New York Times and Washington Post to the...
Now that the first round of military tit-for-tats is over, it is important that New Delhi settles down to parsing the mixed signals coming out of Pakistan. While keeping all options open, it is important for...
FORUM-ASIA deeply concerned about current tensions between Pakistan and India
(Bangkok, 27 February 2019) – The Asian Forum for Human Rights and
Development (FORUM-ASIA) is deeply concerned over the rapid escalation
of the tension between Pakistan and India, and urges...
“Chinese party system, towards a paradigm shift”
Press
Release 26 February 2019
“The
Chinese political system is switching over to a new paradigm of party system
with non oppositional parties being allowed to participate in the management of
state affairs,” says Professor Zang Xiuling,...
K.M. Seethi
The air strikes in Balakot, Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, by the Indian Air Force Mirage 2000 fighter jets set in motion waves of jubilation in India and a deluge of anger and war cry in Pakistan. Launched in...
Abu Arqam Naqash, Sanjeev Miglani
BALAKOT, Pakistan/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India said its warplanes struck a militant training camp inside Pakistan on Tuesday, killing “a very large number” of fighters, raising risk of conflict between the nuclear armed neighbours although...
Sputnik
In contravention of US sanctions, the Indian government increased imports of crude oil from Venezuela in February. India has also signed an annual contract to purchase oil worth $1.5 billion from the US ...
By Nichola Groom, Alex Dobuzinskis
The 2019 Oscars were a win for films telling stories from a range of racial and cultural perspectives, marking a major shift three years after the movie industry’s top awards show was...
It may be reading tea leaves but analysis of the walk-up to Saudi
crown prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit and his sojourn in Islamabad
suggests that Pakistan may be about to fight battles on two fronts
rather than just...
