Islamabad : Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has an “anti-Muslim” and “anti-Pakistan” approach and claimed New Delhi rebuffed all his gestures due to the upcoming general elections. Khan made the remarks ...
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Feed SubscriptionA political theorist’s act of resistance against his Partition ghost (Book Review)
By Saket Suman, Book: Looking for the Nation; Author: Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee; Publisher: Speaking Tiger; Pages: 202; Price: Rs 350 Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee, who earned his doctorate in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University and has been published widely in ...
Read More »Want friendly ties, talks with India: Imran Khan
Islamabad : Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, who is set to be the new Pakistan Prime Minister, on Thursday said his government would seek good relations with India and would like leaders of the two countries to sit across the table and ...
Read More »Congress lists multiple surgical strikes, slams Centre over 2016 action
New Delhi : The Congress on Thursday accused the Modi government of using the 2016 surgical strike carried out in Pakistan as “political fodder” to gain votes and listed many similar strikes done in the last two decades to assert ...
Read More »Deportation targets for Indians, Pakistanis reason for UK Home Minister’s resignation?
By Naresh Kaushik, London : One of Britains most senior cabinet ministers has resigned after growing pressure over her handling of targets to deport illegal immigrants. The resignation of Home Secretary Amber Rudd came after documents leaked in the British ...
Read More »India denied visas to over 500 pilgrims: Pakistan
Islamabad : Islamabad said on Monday that New Delhi denied visa to more than 500 pilgrims who were to join the annual Urs celebrations at Ajmer in India this month. “Pakistan notes with deep disappointment the non-issuance of visas by ...
Read More »Perceptions, Postures and Pragmatism: India-Pakistan relations down the decades (Book Review)
By Vikas Datta, Title: The People Next Door — The Curious History of India-Pakistan Relations; Author: T.C.A. Raghavan; Publisher: HarperCollins ; Pages: 361; Price: Rs 699 Shifting from cordial and promising to suspicious and hostile (and back again), regularly overshadowed ...
Read More »India slams Pakistan, calls it ‘terroristan’
By Arul Louis, United Nations : In a sharp escalation of its attack, India slammed Pakistan at the UN for its support to terrorism, calling it “terroristan”. “In its short history, Pakistan has become a geography synonymous with terror,” Eenam ...
Read More »Pakistani cross-border terrorism is root of current Kashmir situation: India
By Arul Louis, United Nations : Cross-border terrorism from Pakistan is at the root of the current situation in Kashmir and it has also victimised the people of the part of the state occupied by Pakistan, India said on Tuesday ...
Read More »From RM to CM: Parrikar trades Tejas for tomatoes, surgical strikes for papad dough
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, Panaji : Until some months ago, as Raksha Mantri, Manohar Parrikar, with his trademark fidgety eloquence, could explain the flaws in the LCA Tejas or confidently hold fort on the now-fabled surgical strikes against Pakistan. However, Parrikar ...
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