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Opinion | Beyond The 'Warm' Words Of US' New India Ambassador, Sergio Gor
US Ambassador to India, MAGA ideologue, and self-declared 'close friend' of President Donald Trump, Sergio Gor's posting as the Special Envoy to South and Central Asia is no ordinary appointment.
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Opinion | Why The Anti-India Rage In Bangladesh Makes Little Political Sense
Election time among most of our neighbours inevitably has an anti-India component these days. Such narratives are useful for the politically ambitious.
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Opinion | Putin's Visit Wasn't All Fireworks. But It Still Mattered
Neither India nor Russia can run only on sentiment in the perilous geopolitical climate of the day. For both, itll have to be about the actual numbers, too.
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Opinion | Here's Everything That Helped Terrorists Carry Out The Delhi Red Fort Blast
Terrorism has a habit of pulling in all kinds of actors, not just the fiery radical. That includes criminals, the fraternity - in this case, a religious one - or even people from within the governance system.
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Opinion | Dhaka Irony: How A Court Set Up By Hasina's Father Sentenced Her To Death
As each day passes, the darkness of religious intolerance will only grow. That, in some ways, is even more dangerous. Especially now. Radicalism doesn't come out of a vacuum.
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Opinion | As Terror Strikes Delhi, A Curious 'Takeover' Is Under Way In Pakistan
With a car bomb in Islamabad following hot on the heels of the Delhi car explosion, it seems like it's back to the future. This time, however, there may be a different set of rules operating.
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Opinion | Inside Pakistan's Twisted 'Empowerment' Project: The 'Lady Killers' Of Jaish
Why does Masood Azhar want to build an army of women suicide bombers? For both personal and political reasons, apparently.
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Opinion | Pak's Great Game: What Rawalpindi Really Wants From Its War With Afghanistan
Get the US in and get the money for itself - that's Pakistan's single-point agenda. And it's doing everything it can to achieve this.
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Opinion | How Pakistan Is Using Its 'Gaza' Protests To Slide Out Of A Deal With Trump
If Rawalpindi thinks it can have the cake and eat it too by praising Trump and then pleading internal 'instability' to sign on to the Gaza plan, it had better think again.
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Opinion | The Saudi-Pakistan Defence Pact Is Not About Them, But Someone Else
This defence pact - if it does indeed exist or is to be rolled out in its entirety - is aimed at different actors in Asia: West Asia, India, China and even Russia , even while the US rakes in the money.
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Opinion | The Logic Of Pakistan Bombing Its Own People And Getting Away With It
This is a heady mix of superpowers and regional bosses. And the Pashtuns are caught literally and metaphorically in the middle. Don't expect anyone to pull up the Pakistanis for their cruel and random bombing.
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Opinion | The Inside Story Of Why Both US And China Want A Piece Of Pakistan
American interest in Pakistan seems to have strongly revived Chinese efforts to enter Pakistan, whether through CPEC or without it. For Pakistan, this means happily reaping the largesse of both powers, for as long as it can.
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Opinion | No, This Is Not About Ganging Up Against The US
At Tianjin, what was evident with India was an ambidextrous policy of engaging with friend and foe alike, using the one to balance out the other. That's all very well. But it just scratches the surface.
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Opinion | India To Kabul To Pak: The Plot Behind Chinese Foreign Minister's Many Tours
This is China stepping into the breach created by Trump's shenanigans. It seems to be viewing the problem through the lens of South Asia as a whole, rather than letting Washington use its divide-and-rule strategy.
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Opinion | A US Bailout? A 'Coup'? What Are Asim Munir's Nuclear Threats Really About?
On the Pakistan Field Marshal's great American audition in Tampa.
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Opinion | So, Does Pakistan Really Have Those Oil 'Riches'?
For some years now, Pakistan has been talking about such finds, with most notably Imran Khan announcing this in early 2019. But no one knows where this oil really is.
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Opinion | Lunch, Now A State Award: What's With The Growing Pakistan-US Lovefest?
After years of being ignored publicly by recent American administrations, the turnaround in established policy is baffling. What gives?
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Opinion | Trump, India, Pahalgam: When Terrorists Are Easier To Deal With Than Tariffs
What's behind US's newfound intent to declare the TRF as a terrorist organisation, especially given how a number of western 'analysts' had demanded proof of its involvement in the Pahalgam terror attack?
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Opinion | How Are Pak Terrorists Moving Money? Hints From An FATF Report
A recent FATF flags, for the first time, state-sponsored terrorism, though it admits it has not yet developed a typology for this.
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Opinion | The Strange Reasons Behind Asim Munir's Anti-India Tirades
Glory dissipates fast during peacetime. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is finding that out the hard way. Munir, too, has his own embarrassment to deal with.
