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Modi’s Digital India Comes Crashing Down in Kashmir’s Longest Ever Internet Gag0
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- September 22, 2019
Sunday is the 49th day of the internet blockade. Irfan Mudasir Ahmad 22 September 2019 Srinagar: On September 12, Jammu and Kashmir government spokesperson Rohit Kansal justified the ongoing internet blackout by saying that there are fears that Pakistan might misuse the internet in Kashmir to foment trouble. He was confronted with a question by
Why Indians and Pakistanis Want a War0
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- September 21, 2019
Most South Asians are too young to have experienced the horrors of the conflicts fought in the region. That’s one reason why they’re quick to clamor for one. BY SHIVAM VIJ | SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 As the world’s media once again covers familiar flash points between India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed states, one fact is often ignored: The
Beijing rubbishes fears that Maldives is ‘mired in a Chinese debt trap’0
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- September 21, 2019
The Maldives has been caught in a battle for influence between India and China, which invested millions during the rule of the previous pro-Beijing leader The new ruling Maldivian Democratic Party fears debts to Beijing could run as high as US$3 billion and risk sinking the economy Maldives’ Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid and Chinese Foreign
As Trump threatens nuclear war on Iran: Chelsea Manning imprisoned without charge for six months for refusing to testify against Julian Assange0
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- September 21, 2019
21 September 2019 The courageous whistleblower Chelsea Manning has now been held in a federal detention center in Alexandria, Virginia for more than six months. Manning has not been charged with or committed any crime. She was sent to jail on March 8, 2019 for refusing to testify before a secret grand jury that has
The What, Why and How of ‘Howdy, Modi’0
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- September 21, 2019
Modi, a lover of the limelight, will be accompanied by a man similarly enamoured with public attention, Trump. In 2014, Narendra Modi, then in his first year as prime minister, had addressed a packed Madison Square Garden in New York. Photo: PTI/File New Delhi: On September 21, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be facing a
India Prime Minister Modi faces Houston federal lawsuit for alleged human rights abuses in Kashmir0
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- September 20, 2019
Gabrielle Banks Sep. 19, 2019 A pair of Kashmiri citizens sued the prime minister of India in federal court Thursday ahead of his much-anticipated arrival in Houston, alleging that his unilateral annexation Aug. 5 of their homeland caused the detention, disappearance and deaths of their loved ones amid ongoing repression. The region, in the foothills
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Sri Lanka; U TURNS ARE DIFFICULT0
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- March 21, 2019
byAsanga Abeyagoonasekera 21 March 2019 “…members of the foreign policy elite are rarely held to account, they were able to make the same mistakes again and again.” Stephen M.Walt on US foreign policy USA and Sri Lanka need to recalibrate their respective foreign policies. On both ends of global power scales, I suspect the world
The aftermath of Pulwama Attack: A Fearful Story of Kashmiris0
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- March 21, 2019
By: Roohul Amin Malik 21 March 2019 The anger of killing the army jawans in Pulwama attack was felt in the whole India. Many questions regarding the lack of intelligence were discussed in the social media platforms. Even questions of mis-governance were also debated. The environment of fear has been created in many states of
Bangladesh; DEMOCRACY IN PERIL1
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- March 20, 2019
by F R Chowdhury 20 March 2019 I was very upset with news from Bangladesh. For last few months we often come across news that someone somewhere in Bangladesh is arrested or jailed for passing unacceptable remark against the prime minister or for making any sort of cartoon of the prime minister. I am grateful
Sri Lanka; JVP’s concerns about Tamil livelihood0
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- March 20, 2019
N. Sathiya Moorthy Ceylon Today 19 March 2019 Sad but true, and the disconnect is showing. Even as the JVP’s Bimal Rathnayake was talking about Tamil ‘war widows’ and arguing their case in Parliament, TNA Leader R. Sampanthan was still on the political track. Rathnayake was reportedly talking about the plight of ‘women-headed’ war victim families in
INDIA ACQUIRING THERMONUCLEAR WEAPONS: WHERE IS THE GLOBAL OUTCRY?1
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- March 19, 2019
by Rabia Javed 19 March 2019 The atomic bomb revolutionized modern warfare not by enabling the mass slaughter of civilians but by vastly increasing its efficiency—the ease with which densely populated cities could be annihilated. Many of the crucial details are top secret, and the mundane terms used in official discussions tend to hide the
The battle for leadership of the Muslim world: Turkey plants its flag in Christchurch0
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- March 19, 2019
By James M. Dorsey 19 March 2019 A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn and Tumblr When Turkish vice-president Fuat Oktay and foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu became this weekend the first high-level foreign government delegation to travel to Christchurch they were doing more than expressing solidarity with New
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Neighbours challenge political Hindutva’s Ram agenda
N Sathiya Moorthy 24 July 2020 Indian claims to the Ram story and ownership could be challenged from more places than one, says N Sathiya Moorthy. Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli’s recent diatribe that the birthplace of Hindu god Ram is located in his country and not in Ayodhya, need not be a
The Top Brass is Shattered in Bangladesh: Aftermath of a Retired General’s Interview
Lieutenant General (retired) Chowdhury Hasan Sarwardy (left) and General Aziz Ahmed, the Chief of Army Staff (right) by Taj Hashmi 20 July 2020 Although neither the puppet and illegitimate government of Sheikh Hasina nor the pro-Indian Deep State, which has been running Bangladesh for the last twelve years, gathered enough courage to broadcast
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