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Beyond backchannel talks Zahid Hussain IT is no more a secret. The two hostile neighbours have been talking to each other. Backchannel contacts between India and Pakistan have led to some melting of the ice. Over the past months, the guns have fallen silent along the Line of Control and …

Jeffrey Gettleman New Delhi, April 28 (KMS): Crematories are so full of bodies, it’s as if a war just happened. Fires burn around the clock. Many places are holding mass cremations, dozens at a time, and at night, in certain areas of New Delhi, the sky glows. Sickness and death …

India’s Covid-19 tsunami Shashi Tharoor It is humbling when a columnist must retract his words soon after penning them. Just two months ago, after India rushed millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccines to over 60 countries, I praised the country’s ‘vaccine diplomacy’. India’s aspirations to be recognised as a global …

  Why some people keep rubbing salt in China-Pakistan ties Zhou Rong May 21 marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Pakistan. Islamabad is Beijing’s all-weather strategic cooperative partner. In the words of Pakistanis, the time-tested strategic partnership is higher than the Himalayas, deeper …

Finding peace Arifa Noor The first tentative steps to peace have been taken. The ice is melting. The twins separated at birth are reaching out to each other. Now that India and Pakistan have both confirmed that they are talking to each other, let’s dust off all the clichés about …

Indo-Pak talks — not so ‘quiet’ now Munir Ahmed The weekend was spiced up by the prospect of a breakthrough on Indo-Pak talks. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, in an interview with Turkey’s Anadolu Agency, said that if New Delhi were wiling to revisit its annexation of Jammu and Kashmir …

Bollywood’s Hindutva problem Hassan Khan Being a film buff for the better part of my life, I never imagined a time would come when Bollywood, one of the largest film industries in the world, would fall into the grip of an odious Hindutva regime; one that is ardently inspired by …

Mushtaq Ahmad Kashmir was called ‘The paradise on the face of earth’ where the mesmerizing beauty and charming scenery used to captivate the heart, mind, and soul of a human being. The climate of this piece of land is so lovely and the land of Kashmir is so green that …

Behind the shining India Zaheer Ahmad This is a right perception that India is in the hand of two politicians and a businessman. The Prime Minister of India Mr. Modi, his right hand powerful interior minister Amit shah and Ambani’s business empire. They will never turn an opportunity to usurp …

Riding the tiger: Indian surrender continues Jawad Falak On 7 April 2021, the US Navy conducted a ‘navigation operation’ within Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) without any intimation to India. To add insult to injury, the US 7th Fleet openly officially admitted the maneuver, saying, “On April 7, 2021 (local …