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Amid conflicts and wars, India-UAE tech-innovations mission gains pace

Shankar Kumar While Asia in general and the Middle East in particular grapple with escalating tensions due to the Israel-Iran conflict, later joined by the US, India, and the UAE were quietly charting a new course in their relationship through the India-UAE Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) Start-up series. Designed to foster innovation-led collaboration between the two countries, the initiative, launched on June 24, ...

Muslim nations back India, snub Islamabad’s victimhood narrative

Shankar Kumar As Pakistan struggles with a severe credibility crisis, exacerbated by revelations of a deep and troubling nexus between the country’s military and terrorist organisations--it finds itself increasingly inept in coping with India’s successful diplomatic offensive. It has led to Pakistan’s isolation, even among leading Islamic nations, many of which have voiced their support for New Delhi’s stand against...

What is happening in Iraq?

Deepak Vohra The rockets that hit Baghdad’s Green Zone have created much excitement. A once progressive nation has been decimated. America’s nation-building project in Iraq is an abject failure. It is an unending war. We are told that the West, read the USA, wanted to control Iraq’s oil reserves. For that Saddam Hussein had to be cut to size. He was getting too big for his boots and wanted to be the leader of t...

OIC Jamboree saw Afghanistan and spoke of Palms

Deepak Vohra Pakistan’s theme song at the OIC Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Islamabad was: Allah ke naam pe de de. No one gave anything. Over half of all Afghan children slept hungry while the Conference delegates feasted on Pakistani cuisine! It was the ultimate flop show that a red-faced Government claimed as a great diplomatic triumph. The final statement was long on pious thoughts ...

China's genocide of Uyghurs exposed

Deepak Vohra Governments or Parliaments in the USA, UK, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Lithuania have already declared the treatment of Chinese Uyghurs as genocide. In 2021, the European Union approved sanctions against Chinese officials running internment camps for Uyghurs. The Xinjiang Regional Government dismissed the sanctions as a "wastepaper" whose real purpose was to hamper Chinese companies internationally (no ...

China’s border law: much ado about nothing

Deepak Vohra For the first time in my memory, India has expressed concern over a Chinese law that decrees its territory is sacred and inviolable, and expressed the hope that it will not impact the ongoing negotiations about Ladakh disengagement The passage of this new law does not confer any legitimacy to the so-called China-Pakistan “Boundary Agreement” of 1963 that India has consistently maintained is an illegal and inval...

The world should take on China through Tibet

Deepak Vohra Tibet was once the center of a vast empire; the most feared political power in Asia in the 8th century. For a short period in 755 CE, Tibetans even captured Chang'an, then the capital of China, chasing the Chinese emperor and his court from the city. In this piece on Tibet, I shall not go into its hoary past, nor recapitulate the events that led to its occupation by Communist China or the Dalai Lama’s flight to ...

Millions face starvation under the 'Pariah' Taliban

Deepak Vohra The biggest risk in the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan is internal and external terrorism, poverty, and hunger. International donors have pledged more than $1bn in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan to address hunger and poverty. The World Food Programme has warned that more than 14 million Afghans could be pushed to the brink of starvation if immediate aid is not provided. Afghanistan is a heavily...

Games that countries are playing in Afghanistan

Deepak Vohra Despite all the sugar coating on it, the Doha agreement between America and Taliban was an American admission of a lost 20-year long, trillion-dollar war, a repeat of Vietnam without the face-saving device of a Geneva Conference. Afghanistan was never a challenge to America’s global hegemony, China and Russia are, and America, as Joe Biden said, wants to concentrate on dealing with them. What the future hold...

The new great game has begun in Afghanistan

Deepak Vohra A famous saying attributed to the 12th-13th century marauder Genghis Khan best expresses the dilemma facing the Taliban as the last US flight has left Afghanistan. “Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.” The issue confronting Afghanistan is not of religion (a justification for jihad), but one of tolerance, terrorism, and dev...

Pakistan hit wicket

Deepak Vohra As the world keeps a razor focus on Afghanistan, and there was a suicide bomb explosion at Kabul airport, there is trouble brewing in Pakistan. The Taliban have seized control of Kabul, got into bed with the United States, reinforced the ultra-radical Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, and after “liberating” Afghanistan will now favour China and Pakistan with their unwelcome attention. The Taliban have enou...

Myanmar - a beautiful land in a vicious cycle of violence

Deepak Chopra In conflict situations, we talk about graded escalation of violence. In cases where regimes have been toppled or ousted or denied their rights through the electoral process, we see noncooperation with the usurper and street demonstrations. Initially, efforts are made to discuss and negotiate, nationally and internationally (the last leads to strong statements and then sanctions). &nb...

US signing deal with Taliban legitimised group

Deepak Vohra I have just returned from an Indian Defence Institution of Excellence where I met an Afghan military officer. I could see hope, anger, and despair in his eyes. His family is in Afghanistan After several parallel Afghan peace processes ended in nothing, the Taliban has taken over the country. After two decades, the United States is leaving Afghanistan. The UK is doing the same. Ind...

INDIA, USA, KASHMIR

Deepak Vohra There is global Kashmir fatigue despite Pakistani-funded attempts through some overseas Kashmiris and sections of the international media to keep the issue alive. It is one thing to make statements when one is not in a leadership position or a position of authority. It is quite another issue when the burden of office and its concomitant limitations of speech and action sit upon one’s shoulders. Remember Kama...

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