Tough road ahead for Kashmir separatist movement after Gee...
September 24 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The late Syed Ali Shah Geelani, wearing a mask, with Ashraf Sehrai, who died in jail earlier this year, after their Friday prayers in...
Australia’s war posturing against China is out of tune wit...
September 22 ,2021
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By: Chris Khatouki
(From the left) Australian Defence Secretary Greg Moriarty, Chief of the Australian Defence Force General Angus Campbell and Prime Mi...
Recent decisions raise doubts about America’s reliability...
September 21 ,2021
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Two recent decisions of the United States, one on Afghanistan and the other on the supply of nuclear submarines to Australia, have rais...
Sri Lanka builds bridges with the West in course correctio...
September 20 ,2021
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Kerawalapit Power Station.
Sri Lanka appears to be building bridges with the US and other Western nations, reflecting a growing aw...
Bhutan and Northeast India: Subnational diplomacy possibil...
September 18 ,2021
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By: Nitasha Kaul & Dechen Rabgyal
The growing strength of India and Bhutan’s relationship over time has been commended as a model for enduring goodwill between the...
US abandonment of Afghanistan could lead to Sino-Indian de...
September 17 ,2021
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
Afghan’s trying to get into Kabul airport.
After America withdrew its troops from Afghanistan in a frightful hurry, call...
Tortured US-Pakistan relationship: America must learn from...
September 16 ,2021
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By: Maleeha Lodhi
In their very first exchange after 9/11, Pakistan’s most senior leaders urged their American counterparts not to invade Afghanist...
Pegasus vs Privacy: What the Indian government can expect...
September 15 ,2021
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By: NS Nappinai
That the government’s refusal to furnish more details would result in an adverse inference being drawn by the SC is a certainty....
UN’s challenge: Who will sit in Myanmar hot seat?
September 14 ,2021
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By: David Hutt
Myanmar's ambassador to the UN Kyaw Moe Tun making a three-finger salute as he addresses the General Assembly on February 26, 2021. P...
Biden Doctrine abates China tensions
September 13 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
US President Joe Biden speaking about the end of the war in Afghanistan, White House, Washington, August 31, 2021
A 90-minute phon...
Siliguri Corridor: The region’s Achilles Heel
September 11 ,2021
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By: Nafiz Farhan
to bordering countries, especially Bangladesh. Although starting on a small scale, the damage will eventually have catastrophic implica...
History shows only Shariah and customary laws have worked...
September 10 ,2021
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Anatol Lieven, Professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and a senior fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Wa...
Reality bites for Imran Khan’s ‘New Pakistan’
September 9 ,2021
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By: Shuja Nawaz
As Khan enters the second half of his five-year term, the situation does not augur well — partly because of the intrinsic weaknes...
The fall of Panjshir
September 8 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Taliban patrol after they took over Panjshir Valley, Sept 6, 2021
Panjshir has fallen to the Taliban with a bang — and a whi...
Sri Lanka's food emergency heightens fears of militarizati...
September 7 ,2021
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By: Munza Mushtaq
Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa attends an independence day ceremony in Colombo on Feb. 4, 2020. © Reu...
Afghanistan: Panjshir revolt becomes footnote
September 6 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Afghanistan: Panjshir revolt becomes footnote
At the daily foreign ministry briefing in Beijing on Friday, Russian corresponde...
Will US recognize the Taliban regime ?
September 4 ,2021
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Anthony Blinken
The main question vis-à-vis Afghanistan now is: “Will the US recognize the Taliban government, now th...
Biden gives green signal to US-China thaw
September 3 ,2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
US climate envoy & former secretary of state John Kerry (L) and Chinese Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (File photo)
Th...
US-China relations at crossroads
August 31 ,2021
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By: M.K. Narayanan
In two phone calls past fortnight, Chinese Councilor & FM Wang Yi (L) told US counterpart Antony Blinken (R) that coordination ov...
Pakistan lobbies neighbors to push for inclusive Afghan go...
August 27 ,2021
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By: Adnan Aamir
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government have launched an ambitious diplomatic campaign aimed at stabilizing ...
Women’s rights and the US’s ‘civilising’ mission in Afghan...
August 24 ,2021
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By: Belen Fernandez
Women with their children try to get inside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021 [Reuters]
In July,...
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Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
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