This is the transcript of 'Cut The Clutter' Episode 1817, examining the staggering cost of US aviation and radar losses in the Gulf, the myths of electronic invincibility, and the sobering reality of modern, high-intensity combat.
This is the transcript of 'Cut The Clutter' Episode 1816 examining the complexities & hypocrisies as Pakistan tries to play mediator in the Gulf war, & why India should keep away.
In Episode 1810 of Cut The Clutter, ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at rivalries between Gulf countries that prevented an alternative to the Strait...
War in Middle East can affect India’s strong growth, which IMF forecast at 6.4% earlier and also push inflation higher from 2.75% recorded in January, global media predicts.
Pakistan’s relations with the Gulf states are clouded by the fact that it aimed to play a larger role in the region on behalf of the US than it can bargain for.
While The Express Tribune initially reported on tensions in the Gulf, those articles went missing from its website the next day. It was only Dawn that continued to report on the matter. But even that was selective.
Pakistani men have been making inappropriate videos in front of women in Dubai, Pakistani nurses have refused to work in Kuwait and labourers have refused to wear helmets in Qatar.
In ‘The Gulf Migrant Archives in Kerala’, Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil explores the rumours and stereotypes associated with Malayalis who work in the Gulf.
At GCC-ASEAN summit, leaders agreed on 5-yr plan with focus on counter-terrorism, trade, & energy cooperation. On Gaza, they stressed on need to abide by international humanitarian law.
As social media debated whether audiences were consuming Pujarini Pradhan as a symbol, The Juggernaut turned her into a story that could circulate globally, with or without her participation.
Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
Trump mandated Gulf War between US -Israel combine and Iran could at best be described as the “Self goal” for him. What else could explain such a colossal damage to its military paraphernalia apart from loss of its global image the world over. Sadly yet strangely, he still refuses to admit the folly of him having invaded Iran, an independent nation, on the fallacious plea of preventing it from making the Atom Bomb, sans any authority under any international laws.
But what about some rouge nation like Pakistan, a well known terrorism sponsoring state apart from having a plenty of nuclear bombs? Why such double standards? Trump seems to be a man virtually lost in transit, as of now. He could perhaps be sailing on the same boat as that of Russian President Putin, who also grossly mis-calculated the ‘fighting spirit’ of Ukraine and the results whereof are already before us all.
Trump mandated Gulf War between US -Israel combine and Iran could at best be described as the “Self goal” for him. What else could explain such a colossal damage to its military paraphernalia apart from loss of its global image the world over. Sadly yet strangely, he still refuses to admit the folly of him having invaded Iran, an independent nation, on the fallacious plea of preventing it from making the Atom Bomb, sans any authority under any international laws.
But what about some rouge nation like Pakistan, a well known terrorism sponsoring state apart from having a plenty of nuclear bombs? Why such double standards? Trump seems to be a man virtually lost in transit, as of now. He could perhaps be sailing on the same boat as that of Russian President Putin, who also grossly mis-calculated the ‘fighting spirit’ of Ukraine and the results whereof are already before us all.