Learning from the Second World War, the world seemed to move toward making war subject to law and reason. These ends were, however, almost immediately subverted.
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.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
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.
Swami spends an entire essay mourning the death of the Geneva Conventions — the same conventions that also ban using hospitals as military bunkers and hiding rockets in schools. Hamas does exactly that, on camera, repeatedly. Yet Hamas gets zero mentions. Gaza appears once, solely to blame Israel.
So apparently, humanitarian law is sacred — just not sacred enough to apply to everyone breaking it.
Nice sermon, Praveen. Kudos about the blind spot.
Swami spends an entire essay mourning the death of the Geneva Conventions — the same conventions that also ban using hospitals as military bunkers and hiding rockets in schools. Hamas does exactly that, on camera, repeatedly. Yet Hamas gets zero mentions. Gaza appears once, solely to blame Israel.
So apparently, humanitarian law is sacred — just not sacred enough to apply to everyone breaking it.
Nice sermon, Praveen. Kudos about the blind spot.