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Mining firm moves Virgin Islands court for enforcement of Reko Diq award against Pakistan0
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- January 18, 2021
Nasir Iqbal A view of the Reko Diq hills. — Reuters/File Dawn.com December 24, 2020 The Tethyan Cooper Company (TCC) has approached the High Court of Justice in the British Virgin Islands for the enforcement of the $5.97 billion award against Pakistan by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in the Reko
India supplies RADAR spare parts to Sri Lankan Air Force0
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- January 17, 2021
by Editor Newsasia India January 17, 2021 INDRA radar Share on WhatsApp Colombo, January 17 (newsin.asia): As part of India’s commitment to maintaining high serviceability of weapons equipment provided by government of India to the Sri Lankan Armed Forces, an Indian Air Force (IAF) An-32 aircraft landed at Bandaranaike International Airport on January 10, with 341
First Goes Law, Then Goes Democracy0
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- January 16, 2021
Stacey Rudin – January 15, 2021 In his 1948 book, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology, C.S. Lewis wrote: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber
What Is Fascism? It’s the System We’ve Been Living under for Decades0
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- January 16, 2021
01/15/2021 Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. [Editor’s Note: In 2011, Lew Rockwell penned this thorough explanation of what fascism really is and what must be done to combat it. Fascism, unlike what the dominant media narrative asserts, has virtually nothing to do with people expressing politically incorrect opinions, or people refusing to wear masks, or a group
India: Admiral Ramdas Appeals The Government To Repeal The Farm Laws0
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- January 16, 2021
by Admiral L Ramdas — January 16, 2021 I am Admiral Laxminarayan Ramdas, former Chief of the Naval Staff . I served the country in Uniform for 45 years and came straight to this village from Delhi after retirement. First of all let me begin by offering shraddhanjali to all those who have paid with their lives
INDIA: How will an unaffordable Covid-19 vaccination help India’s poor?0
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- January 15, 2021
Is rolling out the world’s largest vaccination program justified and why would the government drain the public coffers? Nirendra Dev, New Delhi January 15, 2021 Vehicles move past the People’s University in Bhopal on Jan. 8. A homegrown coronavirus vaccine will be rolled out in India from Jan. 16 even though clinical trials have not
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IMPORTANCE OF MARITIME SECURITY FOR PAKISTAN IN THE WAKE OF US-INDIA ENGAGEMENT IN INDIAN OCEAN0
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- January 15, 2021
by Shakir Ali 15 January 2021 Abstract: In ancient times, the maritime domain was considered a sense of security by littorals, besides comprising excess of mineral resources. It also provided them an opportunity to focus on tangible and non-tangible threats emanating from the land. With the availability of technology and advancement in seafaring, the
India denies dialogue on border issue after Nepal’s foreign minister arrived New Delhi0
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- January 15, 2021
by Hari Prasad Shrestha 15 January 2021 India once again behaved Nepal in a dominating way by refusing to talk on border disputes and acceptance of Eminent Persons Group (EPG) at the last moment after only arrival of Nepal foreign minister to India. Nepal had published a list of agendas, including border issues, for
CHINA’S DAM OVER THE BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER: A CASE OF FLAGRANT VIOLATION OF CUSTOMARY OBLIGATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS0
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- January 15, 2021
by Tejas Sateesha Hinder 15 Janaury 2021 Introductory Remarks Along the Brahmaputra River, which passes through areas of Asia that have been vulnerable to territorial war, China and India are vying for capital. South Asia has insufficient water. A cause of significant conflict between India and China is mass dam-building
Bangladesh: Escape to the supposed safe land couldn’t end Rohingya sufferings; it only reduced them a little0
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- January 14, 2021
Bhasan Char, Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh by Bahauddin Foizee 14 January 2021 The horrible scenes of hungry, tired, and almost lifeless Rohingya refugees entering Bangladesh shocked the world in 2017. Many Rohingyas are attempting to make the journey from Myanmar to Bangladesh, believing that a foreign land (Bangladesh) would be safer than their
Sri Lanka: Nation, Not Nationalists, Decide0
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- January 14, 2021
N. Sathiya Moorthy Ceylon Today, 15 December 2020 In a recent debate in Parliament, State Minister Ajith Nivard Cabraal joined issue with the Opposition over fiscal management between the two Rajapaksa regimes, the incumbent and the previous one (2005-15) and the intervening Government of National Unity (GNU), where ‘unity’ too was in great deficit. As the
India’s Sprouting Counterforce Posture0
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- January 14, 2021
By Amber Afreen Abid 14 January 2021 In recent years, India’s technological advancements in the domain of counterforce military capabilities have increased the vulnerability of the South Asian region. While trying to disturb the strategic stability in South Asia, India, through its adventuresome counterforce posture against Pakistan, is on the verge of becoming a rogue
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Year-end review: Emerging Challenges for South Asia
by Rajesh Kumar Sinha 3 January 2020 The year 2020 has just ended. The year has been extremely calamitous for the whole world. Especially, the pandemic Corona Virus has created such an unfortunate state where economies, infrastructure, loss of lakhs of lives, job losses, and uncertainty has gripped the whole of humanity.
Book review: The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan, by Owen Bennett-Jones
The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan, by Owen Bennett-Jones, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 27 October 2020, Hardcover, 320 pages, $28, ISBN: 97880300246674. By Arnold Zeitlin Owen Bennett-Jones’s account of a Bhutto dynasty reminded me that I enjoyed a rare, near-quixotic relationship with Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto during my time, September 1969 to April 1972, as
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