India told the UNSC that Pakistan-based underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's criminal syndicate has changed into a terror network, and required the world's focused attention.
The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
There is a paradox at work here, in invoking the jurisdiction of the UN – the rest of the world for that matter – in helping India counter the scourge of terrorism directed against India. A lot of it has its epicentre in Kashmir. When the UN system has some observations about Kashmir, these are trashed as false and motivated, an unwarranted interference in our internal affairs. In that case, the world would say, Kindly deal with the totality of the situation as you consider appropriate.
There is a paradox at work here, in invoking the jurisdiction of the UN – the rest of the world for that matter – in helping India counter the scourge of terrorism directed against India. A lot of it has its epicentre in Kashmir. When the UN system has some observations about Kashmir, these are trashed as false and motivated, an unwarranted interference in our internal affairs. In that case, the world would say, Kindly deal with the totality of the situation as you consider appropriate.