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Balakot and its aftermath gave both India and Pakistan a glimpse of the abyss that lies ahead

SAJAD PADDER Leaving the border issue on the back-burner and concentrating on the economic relationship worked in case of India and China partly because the idea was supported by the Indian media. The Chinese liberalization programme is touted by Indian TV channels and newspapers as a role model India should emulate, the reason being that the Indian media themselves have been the biggest beneficiary of the policy of economic reforms. Advertising from domestic and transnational companies has changed the face of the Indian media industry. But Indian newspapers, TV channels and the entertainment...

Daily Times May 2, 2021 Both the Pakistani and Indian Foreign ministers visited the UAE earlier this month, ostensibly on respective bilateral visits. In diplomacy, nothing happens by chance and unwritten protocols dictate that hosting two Foreign ministers representing two sovereign states at the same time should be avoided as an international diplomatic norm. Unless, of course, there is a multilateral diplomatic meeting or conference. By all indications the two were not on a bilateral visit to the UAE. Especially given that just days earlier, the UAE envoy to Washington disclosed that the U...

By Vikas Kumar* In an interview to three of us**, prominent Pakistani physicist and noted peace activist Dr Abdul Hameed Nayyar talks of the dynamics of nuclear disarmament between India and Pakistan. Dr Nayyar taught nuclear physics at Quaid-E-Azam University, Islamabad, for 30 years and was a visiting scholar at at the Princeton University. He is well known for voicing for education reforms and military arms control. Q) Can you tell us about your work on nuclear disarmament and MND : Movement for Nuclear Disarmament in Pakistan? We were a group of university professors who in 1985 started...