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Who are Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and why are they giving Islamabad a big headache?
The dangerous terror group is committed to a Greater Afghanistan, which includes Pushtun dominated areas, in Pakistans north-west across the Durand line. The group has been in the cross-hairs of the Pakistani military which has launched a massive operation against it, further embittering the relations between the two. We profile some of the TTP's key players and the role can they can be expected to play?
Panchayat & bypolls: Rajasthan Political parties going the Ram way!
The two seats in Rajasthan -- namely Vallabhnagar and Dhariawad are lying vacant after the demise of sitting MLAs due to Covid-19. Also, panchayat polls have been announced in six districts of Rajasthan -- Bharatpur, Dausa, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Sawai Madhopur and Sirohi, which will be held in three phases on August 26 and 29 and September 1 from 7.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m
Does Taliban victory in Afghanistan mean a Pakistan triumph?
Nothing of this happened. Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu came down a few notches in his boss, Tayyip Erdogan's esteem. The Foreign Minister believed that Pakistan would deliver the Taliban at the conference. It could not.Turkey's willingness to "look after" Kabul airport was based on Ankara's anticipation that, at least in the interregnum, Ghani and the Taliban would agree.
Scrapping of retro tax provisions revived overseas interest in India's privatisation plan
Government sources said that they have received enquiries from foreign multinational corporations about participation on its strategic disinvestment plan and the pace has increased post the Centre's decision to amend retrospective taxation provisions in the Income tax Act, bringing about certainty on taxation regulations and improving country's ranking several notches on ease of doing business index.
After fresh crackdown on ISIS, Indian oil majors could be back in business in Mozambique
State owned ONGC Videsh Ltd and Oil India Ltd along with other foreign investors had secured $14.9 billion debt to part-finance their $24.1 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project being built on the Afungi peninsula. The project with one of the largest investments in Africa, is led by the French behemoth Total Energies, is expected to produce 12.88 million tonnes per annum of LNG.
The world needs to save Afghanistan
Afridi, a Pashtun leader and representative of the UN Human Rights Council claimed that the situation in Afghanistan was deteriorating. The Taliban have been occupying areas one after another, destroying civilian property, carrying out suicide attacks, car bombings, targeting women and killing prisoners of war. He further claimed that the Pakistani army was behind the destruction of Afghanistan.
Will Iran support guerrilla warfare to restore military balance in Afghanistan?
An article attributed to an Iranian analyst on the homepage of the IRNA, the state-run news agency, says it is essential to garner international support for "popular mobilization forces" -- a term usually reserved for irregular warfare forces, to restore the military balance in Afghanistan. Iran has made extensive use of irregular forces, called Basij, during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war in the eighties.
Imran Khan blows up the cover -- reveals Pakistan and Taliban are conjoined twins
The Pakistani Prime Minister has blown up the cover. He has simply confirmed, which insiders always knew, that Islamabad and the Taliban were conjoined twins, and any attempt to separate the two was fiction, scripted by the generals occupying the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, amplified by their bullhorns in high places.
Why aircraft carriers are inalienable from India's maritime security?
The Indian Navy created a Directorate of Naval Aviation in 1948, five years before the first Sea-land aircraft were inducted. However, due to the vicissitudes of limited budget versus enormous demands for public spending from all sectors, the Navy's requirement of a strong air arm and aircraft carriers was trimmed in 1950 to only a Fleet Requirement Unit (FRU) with 12 aircraft.
Is US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad responsible for the failure of "Mission Afghanistan"?
Amid gunfire, bombings and Taliban's atrocities in Afghanistan, the knives are out against Khalilzad, and the demand for sacking the embattled envoy are only getting louder. Khalilzad's bleak assessment of the peace process following Taliban's advances on provincial capitals that have uprooted tens of thousands of civilians has only added fuel to the fire.
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