The author is a reporter with the Global Times. Over the past few days, many people have been keenly following the debate over one question: Can India match China’s economic influence in Africa? Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent trip to Africa has attracted a lot of attention worldwide, and some observers have labeled the visit a check against China’s increasing economic influence in Africa. Commentary in The New Indian Express on Wednesday said Modi’s…
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ISLAMABAD: Maulana Fazlur Rehman has failed to call a single meeting of the Special Committee on Kashmir Affairs that the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief heads after the recent spike in Indian aggression in the valley that has left over 30 Kashmiris dead and hundreds injured in the last three days. The committee was supposed to highlight the Kashmir issue and in past several resolutions were passed against the Indian aggression. However, since the recent crackdown…
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif may well have moved to take up the issue of increasing Indian atrocities in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK). However, the Pakistan-based leadership from the occupied valley has been kept out of the loop. PM Nawaz is chairing a special cabinet meeting on Friday (tomorrow) in Lahore to discuss the rapidly deteriorating situation in the disputed Himalayan valley where around 32 people have died in violent protests triggered after the…