INTERNATIONAL

Top intelligence officials from India and Pakistan met and held secret talks in Dubai in January 2021 to calm the military tension over Kashmir,  Reuters quoted sources as saying. In its report, Reuters further claimed that Officials from India's Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) travelled to Dubai for a meeting facilitated by the United Arab Emirates government. The Asian neighbours have had bitter ties after February 2019 when a suicide bomber killed at least 45 Indian military men in Kashmir in 2019 and India later sent warplanes to Pakistan. In August, the same year, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi abrogated the special status of Jammu Kashmir, which provoked outrage in Pakistan and the downgrading of diplomatic ties...

The United States in its annual Intelligence report has mentioned that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi the crisis between India and Pakistan are to get more intense. The annual threat assessment of the US intelligence community report 2021 is released by the director of the Nation Intelligence. In that report, the US said, "Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is more likely than in the past to respond with military force to perceived or real Pakistani provocations." In its report, the US further added that the heightened tensions between the two countries raise the risk of conflict between the two nuclear-armed neighbors, with violent unrest in Kashmir or a militant attack in India being potential flashpoints. Highlighting tension between nuclear-armed I...

The US said on Monday it expected indirect talks with Iran about both sides. Iran and the US had said on Friday they would hold indirect talks in Vienna as part of a wider effort to revive the nuclear deal between Tehran and global powers. Tehran has ruled out face-to-face bilateral discussions and state department spokesman Ned Price told reporters at his daily briefing on Monday that the US did not expect any “at present”. The talks begin on Tuesday. US special envoy for Iran Rob Malley, a veteran of the Clinton and Obama administrations, will lead the US delegation to the talks. “We don’t underestimate the scale of the challenges ahead,” US State State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said on Monday. “These are early days. We don’t anticipate an early or immediate breakt...

The United States on Tuesday said that it encourages India and Pakistan to have a direct dialogue on the issues that concerns the neighbors. The US State Department spokesperson on Tuesday speaking to the media however refrained from commenting on the Pakistani Cabinet's recent decision not to import sugar and cotton from India. “I wouldn’t want to comment on that specifically. What I would say is that we continue to support direct dialogue between India and Pakistan on issues of concern,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters at his daily news conference in response to a question. Pakistan’s Cabinet on 1 April backtracked on the proposal of a high-powered committee to import cotton and sugar from India, with Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi asserting that th...

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that India and Pakistan cannot afford to engage in an all-out war, as both countries are powered by nuclear weapons. Pakistan Foreign Minister’s comments came after questions were raised over a statement by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who had said that some counties changed their position over just one phone call. Qureshi maintained that the statement made by the Chinese Foreign Minister was not directed at Pakistan. Commenting about India-Pakistan relations, Qureshi said that it is Pakistan’s firm belief that “all issues could be resolved through dialogue”, adding that it is India’s responsibility to create a conducive environment. “Pakistan has a clear stance on trade with India. It’s now India’s turn to make the envi...

    Han Lay, Miss Grand Myanmar, stood up a week ago against supposed outrages submitted by her nation's military, turned heads. "Today in my nation Myanmar, there are such countless individuals kicking the bucket," she said at the Miss Grand International 2020 occasion in Thailand. "Kindly assistance Myanmar. We need your pressing global assistance at the present time". Barely a month prior, Han Lay, who is 22, was in the city of Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city, challenging the military. The turmoil in Myanmar started two months prior when the military held onto control of the nation, fixing a majority rule political decision in which Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party won by an embarrassing margin. At the point when a huge number of in...

  India and China need to fortify certainty building measures in line regions and stay away from a rehash of last year's line emergency, China's emissary to India Sun Weidong has said. "Support of harmony and quietness need our joint endeavors," Mr. Sun said. "The boundary questions must be settled through exchange and dealings... In the event of an occurrence, a convenient correspondence through military and discretionary channels ought to be attempted to evade any activity that may muddle or heighten the circumstance. We ought to reinforce certainty building measures to together keep up harmony and serenity in the line regions. The exercise of a year ago's line episode is significant and such occurrence ought not be rehashed." He offered the remarks in a "virtual discour...

  Different fiascos brought about by heavy rains in eastern Indonesia have killed in any event 55 individuals and dislodged thousands, the country's catastrophe help organization said on Monday. In excess of 40 others were absent. Mud tumbled down from encompassing slopes onto many homes in Lamenele town not long after 12 PM on Adonara island in East Nusa Tenggara area. Rescuers recuperated 38 bodies and in any event five individuals were harmed, said Lenny Ola, who heads the nearby debacle office. Streak flooding slaughtered in any event 17 individuals somewhere else and at any rate 42 are absent, as per the National Disaster Mitigation Agency. Aid projects were hampered by power cuts, impeded streets canvassed in thick mud and flotsam and jetsam just as the distance of the ...

  A program that aired on BBC - “Recipes that Made Me: Kashmir”, a cookery show on Kashmiri cuisine that screened last Saturday in the UK on BBC One, referred to Kashmiri cuisine as “food of the Kashmiri immigrants from northern Pakistan” in an episode set in Yorkshire. BBC has since, come under fire for broadcasting a show that according to a section of the Indians settled in the UK misrepresented the facts of the region. Vinod Tikoo, who represents the Jammu Kashmir Study Centre in the UK, said: “The series talks about Kashmiri food from Pakistani occupied region of Jammu and Kashmir but the food and recipes shown are more mainstream Pakistani or from the Jammu region". Vinod Tikoo also alleged that the host did not show the subtle yet substantial differences between the...

A discreet unit inside the Guantanamo Bay restriction local area that fell crumbling, has now been closed and the prisoners from the areas were moved to another office on the American base in Cuba, the U.S. military said on Sunday. Prisoners from Camp 7 were moved to Camp 5 "safely and without scene," anyway didn't say when the trade occurred. Camp 5, which was for the most part empty, is near Camp 6, where various detainees are held, in order to "increase operational capability and ampleness". Miami-based Southern Command, which directs the confinement local area at the southeastern edge of Cuba, didn't say the quantity of prisoners were moved. Specialists have as of late said around 14 men were held in Camp 7. There are 40 prisoners at Guantanamo. Camp 7 opened in December 2006 ...