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India is no ‘dalaal’, Pakistan only a broker: Jaishankar sparks furious backlash
Jaishankar targets Pakistan’s mediator role in mideast war
What a prolonged US-Iran war can do to the politics of the region
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily News Colombo, March 17 – Given the trend in the last few days, the deadly US-Iran war is not ending any time soon. Its intensity has only increased, and its canvas has only widened since the first US-Israeli air strike on Iran on...
For the first time in the Indian subcontinent – Bangladesh will give honorarium to priests of all religions
religions Imams, Hindu and Christian priests and Buddhist monks to ger honorariums from March 14
Contrasting positions of women in South Asia
By P.K.Balachandran/Sunday Observer Colombo, March 8 – South Asia is a sub-continent of contrasts. On the one hand, it has produced the largest number of women Prime Ministers, but on the other, women’s participation in the formal workforce is just 33% when the world average...
Trump’s ex-defence adviser predicts US exiting Middle East
P.K. Balachandran/The Daily Times of Bangladesh Colombo, March 4 – Col Douglas Macgregor, who was an adviser to the US Secretary of Defence in the first Trump administration, said in a video interview with Norwegian political scientist Glenn Diesen that the Iran war is going...
South Asian countries have struggled to have relations with Israel
By P.K.Balachandran/Daily News Colombo, March 3 – Countries in South Asia, barring Nepal, have had severe problems establishing ties with Israel. It wasn’t easy to shed their anti-imperialist and anti-colonial commitments and reconcile to the stubborn reality of Israel – a key player in the...
Multibillion-dollar New York Roosevelt Hotel deal reflects growing US-Pakistan bonhomie
The US$ 4 billion deal was negotiated by Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s Special Envoy for the Middle East, whose son, Zach Witkoff, is involved in cryptocurrency development in collaboration with the government of Pakistan.
Imran Khan the cricketing legend is Pakistan’s most famous man. Can the state make him vanish?
By. Osman Samiuddin/Pulitzer Centre Just so we’re clear, the following is a fact. Not opinion, not a point of view, not a hot take. Fact. There is no Pakistani — male, female, dead, alive, real, imagined — as famous as Imran Khan. Every turn in...
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