It also bans US govt employees from travelling to certain areas without permission, including eastern Maharashtra, northern Telangana & western West Bengal due to terrorist threats.
US officials say it is a step in the 'broader' crackdown on transnational immigration networks that undermine US laws & security, meant to 'cut off alien smuggling'.
Some analysts have said the terrorism designations could expose asylum seekers who pay cartels to be smuggled to the possibility of prosecution or being barred from the US.
Paul Kapur once wrote that ‘support for Islamist militants has constituted a central pillar of Pakistan’s grand strategy’. He also served briefly in first Trump administration.
The BJP has also accused Gandhi, the OCCRP & 92-year-old billionaire financier-philanthropist George Soros of singling out the Adani Group & its closeness to the Modi government.
US state dept spokesperson Matthew Miller reiterated need for peace in Ukraine & US’s hope for India to support its efforts. US will continue to engage with India on this, he added.
The senators, including 3 from pivotal Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have written to Antony Blinken, calling out India for ‘increasingly irresponsible efforts to silence critics’.
India has been using Shahid Beheshti terminal at Chabahar to ship humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, bypassing Pakistan. The 10-year deal will allow India to operate the terminal at the port.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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