Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia will soon realise the drawbacks of aligning with China by boycotting G20 Srinagar meet. India's economy must be prepared.
The BJP leadership, particularly those involved in Kashmir, must realise that forced calm, temporary measures, and PR exercises won't bring meaningful and lasting change.
Most TV journalists in Kashmir were tactful about the situation in Srinagar during the G20 meeting. They prefaced all their reports by saying they were in a ‘Naya Kashmir’.
Administration says visit cancelled due to 'logistics issue' as over 60 delegates had to be catered to, but security apprehensions may have triggered the change of plans, it is learnt.
Five nation-states' absence from the meeting might not seem a lot. But with China supporting it, Pakistan may resume nurturing jihadists, even risk war.
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
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