Here’s what’s happening across the border: Imran Khan all smiles after Malaysia’s First Lady holds his hand for a photo; Pakistan welcomes India’s decision to develop Kartarpur corridor.
Various Sikh bodies have been pushing a 3-km fenced corridor between India and Pakistan for Sikhs to be able to visit the historical Kartarpur gurudwara.
Govt says digital payments also uplift under-served communities by providing them financial footprint that can be used to assess credit worthiness in absence of traditional documents.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
Will stick my neck out and say that PM Imran Khan is a man of peace. His constraints and compulsions are well known. That was equally true of PM Nawaz Sharif. Detaching both Pakistan and Kashmir from electoral calculus would be in the national interest. The continuing flow of polemic from some channels should also be stopped. Such an extended period of virtually no dialogue has not been seen earlier. At the end of term, there will be an abiding sense of regret.
Will stick my neck out and say that PM Imran Khan is a man of peace. His constraints and compulsions are well known. That was equally true of PM Nawaz Sharif. Detaching both Pakistan and Kashmir from electoral calculus would be in the national interest. The continuing flow of polemic from some channels should also be stopped. Such an extended period of virtually no dialogue has not been seen earlier. At the end of term, there will be an abiding sense of regret.