Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has arrived in India for the annual India-Japan Summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Japan PM Kishida has given a statement before his talks with PM Modi and has said, he intends ‘to further strengthen the Special Strategic and Global Partnership between India and Japan’. This statement shows how much…
Pakistan’s minorities; Hindus and Christians are living in fear as incidents of abductions, forced conversions and forced marriages of minor girls are on the rise in Pakistan, The Friday Times reported. Cases of abduction, rape and forced conversions are routinely reported from Sindh and Punjab.
The IMF, after bailing out Pakistan 22 times in the past decades, is not ready to release the bailout package so easily this time. The Fund is looking at the past policy decisions of the nation, which have brought it to the brink of financial collapse. Islamabad’s high spending on its nuclear program remains a stumbling block too. Yet another round of talks between the two for Staff Level Agreement (SLA) has remained inconclusive.
A delegation of the Baloch Human Rights Council submitted two separate petitions addressed to the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk calling for the UN’s intervention for the worsening human rights situation in Balochistan, the ANI reported.
An international conference on ‘Shared Buddhist Heritage’ was organised in New Delhi with a focus on India’s civilizational connection with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) nations. With this, India took the lead in connecting the nations with common Buddhist heritage and also reclaims its own place as the sacred land of Buddha. India has seen…
Pakistan is in turmoil once again over the attempts by police to arrest former PM Imran Khan. The history of violent regime change in the country is being repeated exposing the fragility of democracy in the country.
Pakistan’s Toshakhana case has attracted global attention as one of the rare cases, where a country’s ruling elite has been involved in misappropriating expensive gifts. Almost all high office bearers have been involved including former presidents, PMs & army generals including Asif Ali Zardari, Gen Parvez Musharraf and Imran khan. The Pak government has made…
Chinese attempts to unilaterally alter the status quo along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh starting from April-May 2020 seriously disturbed the peace and tranquility in border areas, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a report on Monday. It said these attempts were invariably met with an “appropriate response” from…
The US ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel has said Washington and its allies in Asia are deepening military ties given Beijing’s aggressive behavior toward many of its neighbors including India. In an interview with CNN, Ambassador Rahm Emanuel said, “You look at India, you look at the Philippines, you look at Australia, you look at…
China has appointed a US-sanctioned army general as its new Defence Minister, defying Washington and in utter disregard for its ban on China’s military personnel. Gen. Li Shangfu, a Chinese aerospace engineer and General of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), was sanctioned by the administration of former US President Donald Trump in 2018 for the…
