Blinken in India: Focusing on China

Blinken in India: Focusing on China 0
- Commentary
- August 8, 2021
Muhammad Mahmood | August 08, 2021 US Secretary of state Antony Blinken arrived in New Delhi last week on a two day visit to India. This visit took place just two days after his deputy Wendy Sherman arrived in China to discuss bilateral relations between China and the US. During the visit Blinken had meetings
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The spectre of a coup d’etat in France: An ugly manifestation of Islamophobia 0
- Commentary
- May 9, 2021
Muhammad Mahmood | May 09, 2021 A political crisis is brewing in France over an open letter written by 20 retired generals in the neofascist magazine Valeurs Actuelles (Current Values) on April 21 this year. The letter is also co-signed by another 80 retired officers from the armed forces and the gendarmerie. They have warned
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QUAD Summit: An Alliance Against China?0
- Commentary
- April 14, 2021
By Muhammad Mahmood 14 April 2021 THE QUAD The “Quad”, which stands for the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue has had a rather patchy history since its inception in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami and formalized in 2007. Australia, India, Japan and the US are the members of this grouping and claimed to be a new,
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IMF Post-COVID 19 Economic Outlook: the World, South Asia and A Hysterical India 0
- Commentary, Featured
- October 26, 2020
by Muhammad Mahmood 26 October 2020 Held during the middle of this month 2020 the Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have painted a very sobering picture – these reports indicate that the pandemic COVID 19 has resulted in the largest global economic contraction since the
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Macron’s Mission to “Liberate” Islam: A Long Continuing French Colonial Enterprise?0
- Commentary
- October 12, 2020
by Muhammad Mahmood — October 12, 2020 The Friday Sermon On Friday, October 2, 2020, the Muslim Jumma (Friday Congregation) prayer day, French President Emmanuel Macron said this in a speech in the Western Paris suburb of Les Mureaux that “Islam is a religion that is in crisis all over the world today, we are not just
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The State of Play in Intra-Afghan Peace Talks 0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 33 - Winter 2020
- September 28, 2020
by Muhammad Mahmood 28 September 2020 The US-backed Afghan government and the Taliban held peace talks on Saturday, September 12 in Qatar’s capital Doha. This was the first-ever face-to-face meeting between them after nearly 20 years of conflict that began with the invasion and military occupation of Afghanistan by the US. In fact,
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CHINA-INDIA BORDER CLASH 0
- Commentary
- July 10, 2020
A new flash point by Muhammad Mahmood |Jul 10,2020 In this handout photograph taken on July 3, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi gestures as he speaks to Indian troops during his visit to Nimu in the union territory of Ladakh. — Agence France-Presse/PIB handout ON JUNE 15, fights broke out between Chinese and Indian soldiers
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Indian economy in slowdown, needs structural reforms 0
- Commentary
- December 1, 2019
Muhammad Mahmood | December 01, 2019 The latest gross domestic product (GDP) data published by the Indian government (compiled by the Central Statistics Office (CSO)) indicate the Indian economy is slowing down to a 5.0 per cent growth rate, not seven or seven and a half per cent as claimed by the government. The GDP
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India opts out RCEP, marches to its own tune 0
- Commentary
- November 17, 2019
Muhammad Mahmood | November 17, 2019 India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with China’s Premier Li Keqiang during the 3rd Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Summit in Bangkok on November 04, 2019. —Photo: AFP The Summit of the world’s largest proposed free trade agreement, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was held in Bangkok
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Rabindranath Tagore: An enigma 0
- Commentary
- June 5, 2019
Muhammad Mahmood | 6 June 2019 Tagore has been an inescapable reality for all 250 million Bengali speaking people around the world. He is widely revered all over Bangladesh and in India. He commands a towering presence in the Bengali speaking world. His literary achievements overshadow anything that happened before him and anything that happened
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