Commentaries

Peace In Sri Lanka Shattered By Serial Blasts

April 22, 2019
What had started as a peaceful Easter Sunday morning in churches across an island-nation that is known the world over for its serendipity, Sri Lanka was witness to a series of deadly terrorist attack...

Indo-US Relations Get Positive Grading

April 21, 2019
Robert Blackwill, a former US Ambassador to India, has graded President Donald Trump ‘B Plus’ in his assessment of the American President’s policy especially towards India. The timing of the assessme...

Bhutan Says No To BRI

April 20, 2019
Bhutan has decided to boycott the second BRI forum, which is scheduled to be held later this month in Beijing, China. Thimphu gave no specific reasons for this decision. Bhutan had boycotted the firs...

Crisis In Sudan

April 18, 2019
Sudan has experienced more changes in the past one week than it did in the three decades under President Omar al-Bashir who was deposed in a coup earlier this month following several months of sustai...

The Plight Of Hazaras In Pakistan

April 17, 2019
The recent terrorist attack in Quetta that killed 20 and injured 48 members of the Hazara community is a grim reminder of the state of minorities in Pakistan, especially the targeted killing and syst...

North Korean Reshuffle Amid Rising Tensions

April 16, 2019
In the backdrop of the growing tensions between North Korea and the US, especially after the Hanoi talks were cut-short without a statement, the first session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly (S...

IMF Applauds India’s Economic Growth Story

April 15, 2019
India’s average economic growth of the past five years has been in excess of 7%. This has made India one of the fastest growing economies in the world. This growth, coming in the wake of an economic ...

Pakistani Minorities Protest In Washington

April 14, 2019
Hundreds of Pakistani minorities living in the United States staged a protest in Washington recently, over the atrocities carried out against religious and other minorities in Pakistan for the last s...

100TH Anniversary Of The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

April 13, 2019
The 100th anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre on 13 April this year, marks a watershed moment in Indian history. Over 1000 innocent men, women and children were killed in cold blood on this ...