Latest intelligence reports have warned that JuD and its wing, Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation, have stepped up activities in Punjab province of Pakistan by mobilising Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) and JuD cadres for collecting funds and recruiting cadres. This comes despite pressure mounting on Islamabad in the last few months from the Financial Action […]
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Chinese operation influence revealed by Indian think tank
TAIPEI: China’s method of invading in India has been revealed by a Indian think tank. The 76-page report, “Mapping Chinese Footprints and Influence Operations in India” was released on Friday (Sept. 3) by New Delhi-based think tank the Law and Society Alliance, which held a webinar the same day […]
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Why India Is Silent on the Ukraine Crisis
If you would like to receive South Asia Brief in your inbox every Thursday, please sign up here . The highlights this week: The Ukraine crisis puts India in a diplomatic bind, Norway hosts a conference with Taliban officials , and South Asia fares poorly in new global corruption rankings […]
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India and China’s Border Conundrum
If you would like to receive South Asia Brief in your inbox every Thursday, please sign up here . The highlights this week: New Delhi and Beijing conclude their 14th round of talks in an ongoing border crisis , India announces the official dates for state elections in the coming […]
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China’s Two-Ocean Strategy Puts India in a Pincer
If New Delhi theoretically benefits from geographic proximity, Beijing brings a lot more resources—economic and military—into play and exploits the natural tendency of small nations to seek to balance a dominant neighbor. What’s more, India’s proximity comes with its own problems: Close neighbors often have multiple disputes while a distant […]
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Congress’ Milind Deora backs jawans, counters Rahul’s claims on China’s Galwan propaganda
Congress leader Milind Deora threw his weight behind the Indian Army over China’s Galwan valley propaganda video, saying that despite Beijing’s disinformation campaign, Jawans enjoyed the complete trust of 1.4 billion Indians. Taking to Twitter, the former Lok Sabha MP stated that China’s international credibility was already at rock bottom […]
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India Seeks to Escape an Asian Future Led by China
Although India embraced globalization at the turn of the 1990s, there was little domestic support for liberalizing trade. Opposing free trade agreements united the left and the right; even more powerful was the resistance from an Indian capitalist class reluctant to open its captive market for foreign producers. But if […]
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PM Modi To Host 1st India-Central Asia Summit Today; Here’s What New Delhi Aims To Achieve
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to host the first India-Central Asia Summit in a virtual format on Thursday. The online event will see the participation of Presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) informed that this will be […]
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What Happens If Sri Lanka Goes Bankrupt Amid Foreign Debt Crisis?
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and humanitarian and financial crisis, Sri Lanka could witness total bankruptcy this month, especially as inflation has risen to record levels. While the country had announced a national financial emergency following an acute fall in the value of the Sri Lanka Rupee on August 30, 2021, […]
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5 Reasons to Be Optimistic About 2022
By March, as many as 1 billion doses are scheduled to arrive in Africa—in theory enough to fully vaccinate 70 percent of the continent’s population, up from only 8 percent at the start of December. Hoarding by rich countries could still slow that down, and the vaccines now arriving are […]