Pakistan’s reported air strikes on Kabul last night, coinciding with Acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s visit to India, seem intended to send...
The revelation was made by US President Donald Trump in his address to Congress Tuesday. Muhammad Sharifullah was arrested in Pakistan near the Afghan border late February.
Indian intelligence agencies and the NIA have been informed by Afghan authorities that the man who was part of the 25 March attack is not ‘Abu Khalid al-Hindi’.
While normal states shift focus to urgent issues, states like Pakistan remain fixated with their objectives. Coronavirus is a double whammy for normal states.
It would be an error to see in US envoy Richard Holbrooke’s uncharacteristic near-apology a vindication of India’s rising power. It is, though, indicative of the rise of a new & weakening America.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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