Pakistan has failed to demonstrate a proper understanding on funding of terrorist groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba, said the global terror finance watchdog.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
Coaching centres for Army aspirants in Jhunjhunu are shutting down due to plummeting admissions in the face of a lack of job guarantees under Agnipath Scheme.
So many people, in so many countries have become so adept at “using” language, that all diplomacy everywhere has become meaningless. It is time for diplomacy of “impatience”, or of return to the “raw”. Raw anger, raw and impromptu emotions. Only that will re-establish the human connect, and once again people will start listening to one another. It can and is normally done at a very primitive level, but it can also be done by the most sophisticated minds like great writers used to introduce “spontaneity” in their work.
WAR IS NOT AN OPTION. That should be emblazoned in gold lettering at the entrance to both MEA and MoD. We have absorbed provocations far graver than Pulwama, 26 / 11 being just one instance, without the subcontinent coming closer to war than at any time since 1971. The problems of dealing with Pakistan are well understood by our diplomatic service, once headed with distinction by the columnist. Not amenable to grand gestures, either of war or of peace. A slow patient grind, almost a Sisyphean enterprise. A lower role for the media, even less of domestic politics.
So many people, in so many countries have become so adept at “using” language, that all diplomacy everywhere has become meaningless. It is time for diplomacy of “impatience”, or of return to the “raw”. Raw anger, raw and impromptu emotions. Only that will re-establish the human connect, and once again people will start listening to one another. It can and is normally done at a very primitive level, but it can also be done by the most sophisticated minds like great writers used to introduce “spontaneity” in their work.
WAR IS NOT AN OPTION. That should be emblazoned in gold lettering at the entrance to both MEA and MoD. We have absorbed provocations far graver than Pulwama, 26 / 11 being just one instance, without the subcontinent coming closer to war than at any time since 1971. The problems of dealing with Pakistan are well understood by our diplomatic service, once headed with distinction by the columnist. Not amenable to grand gestures, either of war or of peace. A slow patient grind, almost a Sisyphean enterprise. A lower role for the media, even less of domestic politics.