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Text Size: A+ On 1 April, a friend frantically called from Delhi asking me to confirm if the rumour about Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan suffering a heart attack was true, or just an April Fool’s prank. I replied saying that not only was the cricketer-turned-politician doing well but that he seems to have pulled an April Fool’s prank of his own. Imran Khan rejected a proposal made by his cabinet’s Economic Coordination Committee to import cotton and sugar from India, which the PM had himself signed as minister-in-charge of commerce and textile. This was followed by Foreign Minis...

WHO and China probed coronavirus origin. And neither of them liked the results The report based on the WHO-China study is at best a summary of the confusion that exists around the origin of the coronavirus. Mohana Basu 3 April, 2021 9:38 am IST Text Size: A+ Bats, minks, frozen meat, or an accidental laboratory leak? The world at large seems to be as confused as ever by the results of the long-awaited WHO-China joint study on the origins of the novel coronavirus or SARS-CoV-2. Even World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has raised doubts ...

Text Size: A+ The 25-year economic cooperation agreement between China and Iran should give India a number of reasons to be concerned about and also rethink its policies towards countries in the region. China’s $400 billion deal with Iran, inked in Tehran on 24 March, lays the foundation for strengthening the existing camaraderie between the two authoritarian States. The deal comes at a time when the US is showing little signs of lifting the sanctions imposed on Iran. The Joe Biden administration was expected to reverse the policies of Donald Trump and follow a conciliatory approach tow...

Imran Khan has a gift for Pakistanis — India, the new sugar daddy Can all Pakistanis who stand for Kashmir every Friday afternoon for half an hour sit down now? Naila Inayat 1 April, 2021 11:27 am IST Text Size: cheeni is kam, the tea isn’t fantastic. If we have learnt anything in the past two years, it is that Pakistanis and Indians don’t like non-fantastic tea. Only, Prime Minister Imran Khan has decided to do something about it. Pakistan is all set to import 0.5 million tonnes of white sugar from India along with cotton and yarn after the ...