report in Dawn, December 29th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is committed to a peaceful neighbourhood and would like to have peaceful relations with all countries in the region, including India, the Foreign Office said on Thursday. When asked if the coming year held any prospects of resumption of ties with the eastern neighbour, Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch told a weekly press briefing that India needed to take steps to create an environment for dialogue. She,…
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By Dinasena Rathugamage in The Island, Dec 5, 2023Acting on a request from the Indian security authorities, Sri Lankan police are conducting investigations in respect of seven Sri Lankans who reached Dhanushkodi from Mannar on 25 Nov., seeking asylum in India. They paid Rs 300,000 for their passage across the Palk Bay that took about three hours. They were dropped at the Third Sandbar near the Dhanushkodi islet in Rameswaram by a boat operator in…
by Krishana Prasain in The Kathmandu Post,Nov 1, 2023Onions suddenly became pricier after India slapped a minimum export price to check shipments, and ensure adequate supplies for its domestic consumers. Nepal gets almost all of its onion requirement from the southern neighbour, and any ripple there is amplified when it reaches Nepali bazaars. On Sunday, the wholesale price of onion jumped by 60 percent to Rs122.50 per kg from Rs75 per kg previously. Householders were…
The writer holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK.The issue of refugees is not new in Pakistan. Since its inception, the country has faced challenges in accommodating refugees from across the borders and even from faraway countries such as Myanmar. The first major influx of refugees started at the time of the partition of India and from Bengal and Punjab to Sindh, nearly all administrative units had to receive refugees in different proportions.…
By SHIHAR ANEEZ in The Economy Next, Oct 19, 2023ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka needs to carefully navigate the fisheries industry in the Northern sea between India and China, the State Fisheries Minister said, as Beijing’s sea cucumber business is growing with more revenue amid increasing security concerns by Delhi and poaching of Indian fishermen. Hundreds of fishermen in Sri Lanka’s former northern war zone have switched to sea cucumber farming, a booming trade, in the…
By Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, Sept 16, 2023Chairman of the Sectoral Oversight Committee on National Security, Rear Admiral (retd.) Sarath Weerasekera, MP, yesterday (15) asked whether a comprehensive international investigation into accountability issues here could be conducted unless India, too, was subjected to the same. The former Public Security Minister was responding to the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) declaration that India and Sri Lanka Core Group at the ongoing 54 session of the UN…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press, Sept 13, 2023Hundreds of Afghan college students whose student visas have expired gathered in New Delhi on Wednesday to protest and request the Indian government to grant visa extensions and permit them to resume their studies. India has generously provided scholarships to numerous international students, including those from Afghanistan, enabling them to pursue undergraduate and postgraduate studies. This initiative has opened doors to quality education for thousands, fostering academic…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 8, 2023Several members of Parliament have asked the government to caution—and seek clarification from—Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Chen Song over his ‘undiplomatic’ remarks on Nepal’s energy trading with India and the state of the Indian economy. On Saturday, speaking at a discussion titled ‘China in global economy and its impact in Nepal’, Chen spoke at length about Nepal’s trade with India. “Unfortunately, you have a neighbour like…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 7, 2023Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Chen Song’s remarks regarding the trade of electricity and other goods between Nepal and India as well as the economic growth of Nepal’s southern neighbour have ignited a controversy. Addressing a discussion titled ‘China in global economy and its impact in Nepal’, organised in Kathmandu on Saturday by the Foundation for Trans-Himalayan Research and Studies and Friends of Silk Road Club Nepal,…
by Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, September 5th, 2023.ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is pushing for the visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is traveling to India later this week for the G-20 summit. Though the Foreign Office is tight-lipped over the possible stopover by the Saudi de facto ruler as the travels to New Delhi to attend the summit, the sources in the PM Office did not rule out the possibility. “Nothing is…
By Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, Sept 1, 2023The rebel SLPP group has demanded to know whether Adani Green Energy Ltd., represents the government of India.It has raised this question in the wake of Sri Lanka declaring its intention to consider the proposed construction of two wind and solar power parks in Mannar (286 Megawatt) and Pooneryn (234 megawatt) in terms of Government to Government basis as required by Section 43(4)(c) (1) of the Electricity…