First day almost a no-show as Trump's bluster nearly derails negotiations at Swiss resort summit. Qatar and Pakistan save the day, restarting talks and ensuring tangible outcome.
Trump declared he won't send envoys to Islamabad as planned, even as Iran foreign minister Araghchi is set to return to city. ISPR wrongly claims US team was in Pakistan.
For New Delhi, perhaps an interesting dimension of Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf’s current role is his reported involvement in backchannel activities with the US via Pakistan.
Major Arya (Retd)’s offensive remark about minister Abbas Araghchi led to a brief diplomatic spat. Iranian Embassy says, 'respect for guests a long-standing tradition in Iranian culture'.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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