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PHOTO: AFP The UN’s concerns about IIOJK are valid Kashmiris and international supporters must keep the global pressure on India through international fora like the UN Fernand de Varennes and Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteurs on minority issues and freedom of religion or belief respectively, published their concerns about Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK) last week. They criticised New Delhi’s August 2019 abrogation of Article 370 as “suggest[ing] the people of Jammu and Kashmir no longer have their own government and have lost power to legislate or amend laws in the region to ensure the protection of their rights as minorities.” The experts also warned that “The number of successful applicants for domicile certificates that appear to be from outside Jammu and Kashmir raises concerns that demographic change on a linguistic, religious and ethnic basis is already underway.” In response, India claimed that the report ....
How Russia’s special Afghan envoy wants to save the struggling peace process A Taliban delegation holds a press conference after a meeting with Zamir Kabulov. PHOTO: AFP How Russia’s special Afghan envoy wants to save the struggling peace process Russia has a tangible incentive to see its diplomatic initiatives in Afghanistan succeed Russian Special Envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov gave an exclusive interview to publicly financed Sputnik about his plan to save the country’s struggling peace process. He was . Although Russia officially designated the Taliban as a terrorist organisation, this hasn’t precluded the country from pragmatically engaging with the group on a political basis in order to incorporate it into the peace process. To this end, Moscow even hosted the Taliban on several occasions. These events were extremely symbolic considering the fact that the Taliban grew out of the 1980s Mujahidin movement that was formed to fight against th ....
Why structural realists are wrong to predict that Russia will help the US against China Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin during a meeting. PHOTO: REUTERS Why structural realists are wrong to predict that Russia will help the US against China Russia will indeed seek to “balance” China in the future and arguably already is Globally renowned structural realism theorist Professor John Mearsheimer shared his predictions about what he believes is an inevitable New Cold War between China and the US in an hour-long interview earlier this week with Pakistani journalist Ejaz Haider. I responded to what I regard as his perspective’s greatest shortcomings in my recent analysis for CGTN titled “A Respectful Rebuttal To Professor Mearsheimer’s China Predictions” that should before this piece for the proper background arguments. In a nutshell, I argue that structural realism has its limitations because it importantly doesn’t account for the Chinese leadership’s neol ....
Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi during a press conference in 2015. PHOTO: AFP Why the Indian Foreign Secretary will seek to bring Russia into the Indo-Pacific Russia is becoming a relevant Indo-Pacific power contrary to the US’ recently expressed expectations Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla will travel to Russia next week on a multi-day visit aimed at discussing multiple topics of shared interest. The most important is to prepare for President Putin’s planned trip to India later this year after both sides claimed that last year’s annual summit was postponed because of Covid-19. The Indian diplomat’s visit will take place against the recent backdrop of Russia and India opening up an air travel bubble between their countries, New Delhi reaching an agreement with Beijing for the “synchronised disengagement” of their forces all along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), and America threatening to sanction India for its decision to go throu ....
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting. PHOTO: AFP Why Moscow’s upcoming anti-terrorist conference is a timely move There should be serious consideration about the wisdom of proposing another round of Afghan-related talks State Duma speaker Vyachseslav Volodin told his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf during talks earlier this week in Moscow that the Russian capital plans to host an upcoming anti-terrorist parliamentary conference between the representatives of their countries, China, Pakistan, Turkey, and Afghanistan later this year. It wouldn’t be the first such gathering between these parliamentary speakers since other meetings have taken place in the past, but this latest planned one takes on a heightened significance considering newly inaugurated President Biden’s decision to postpone his predecessor’s drawdown from Afghanistan. According to Volodin, the agenda will also include strengthening regional integration and combating drug t ....