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PoJK/GB: The gathering storm of public discontent
Manzoor Parwana, leader of Gilgit-Baltistan United Movement, has warned that the subsidy given to PoGB is not charity but an obligation set up by the resolutions of the UN since the region is disputed. He told this scribe that due to cuts in wheat subsidy the cost of a bag of flour would increase by at least 1,000 PKR.
With holes in his armour, Imran Khan should be ready for a big embarrassment after his call for another Long March in Pakistan
Six days ago, Imran Khan had failed to come to the protest site with millions of supporters. After abruptly cancelling his march, he had asked supporters to prepare for another long march to Islamabad against the "imported government" which is going to compromise with America on the blood of Kashmiris and recognise Israel.
Quad may be incomparable to NATO, but it can bring together states to secure mutual interests
In the light of the latest developments on this front, the recently concluded Quad Summit reinforced the need for an alliance to secure maritime territories, particularly taking note of China's growing dominance on the global stage. China's penchant for turning islands and atolls into military bases and declaring territorial ownership is the very reason Quad needs to be a revitalised entity.
Democratic India has to have a national identity
The political complexities flowing out of the traumatic division of India on communal lines built into the process of Independence itself and the approach of the Congress as the first ruling party of India, of presenting the democratic dispensation here as a contrast to Islamic Pakistan by 'disowning' any cultural heritage of the Hindu majority in India, created an amorphous kind of polity that was to open the way for putting the Muslim minority on a special footing for its numbers.
Pakistan sheds crocodile tears over its protege Yasin Malik
The prime minister of the puppet government of Pakistani Occupied Jammu Kashmir (PoJK), Tanveer Ilyas addressed more than one press conference in Muzafarabad and made appeals to the locals to hold protest rallies to support Malik, however, less than two-dozen turned up.
Is US set for a course correction in Ukraine after Henry Kissinger, New York Times pick holes in Biden's anti-Russia policy?
In Davos, during his virtual interaction with Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger suggested that Ukraine should agree to cede parts of its territory to Russia and reach a peace agreement with Moscow to end the hostilities which entered its 91st day on Wednesday.
Has the Quad shifted focus from geopolitics to geo-economics and development?
The second in-person summit, also the fourth meeting overall, of the Quad leaders--Prime Ministers Anthony Albanese of Australia, Narendra Modi of India, Fumio Kishida of Japan, and President Joe Biden of the US, has accepted the global turmoil that is devastating nations and now sharpens its focus to reducing "human and economic pain".
Trade focussed Quad
The security situation in the Indo-Pacific region has changed significantly in the last decade and in the post-pandemic world, it becomes imperative for these partners to further commit to an open, inclusive and resilient region. The primary focus of this alliance is to thwart the increasing Chinese hegemony in the region and globally, both
The Places of Worship Act violates fundamental principle of Hindu Law
The Places of Worship (special provisions) Act, 1991, title read, "An Act to prohibit conversion of any place of worship and to provide for the maintenance of the religious character of any place of worship as it existed on the 15th day of August, 1947, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto". This Act is at the centre row over a videographic survey at Gyanvapi mosque, where a "Shiva Lingam" was discovered.
How much and how often should courts adjudicate matters of religous fervour?
The �Western Wall' has been fraught with severe skirmishes between communities and though the Western Wall is carved in stone, the fate of its worshippers is not, and is writ with an unease that has come to be seen largely in religiously zealous places such as in India.
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