Don’t forget there is a substantial lobby in India too that would scoff at the idea of normal relations with Pakistan. It’s a challenge of enormous proportions.
India received 31% Russian arms exports & France displaced US as India’s 2nd-largest supplier, according to report released by Sweden-based Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Modi government has let, even fuelled the building, of a Westophobic & pro-Moscow public opinion while the course it has set on strategic policy is exactly the opposite.
China should support an inclusive process in Afghanistan. The alternative would be either a permanent black security hole or an Islamist dystopia on China’s doorsteps.
External affairs ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi asserted that J&K as well as Ladakh ‘have been, are and will’ always remain integral and inalienable parts of India.
The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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