Category: World

Why China and India are fighting over an inhospitable strip of the Himalayas?

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Analysis by James Griffiths After over four decades of saber-rattling and minor scuffles, a border dispute between China and India has again turned fatal. At least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a bloody brawl with Chinese troops on Monday in the Galwan Valley, close to Aksai Chin, an area controlled by China but claimed by both countries. It is unclear if or how many Chinese soldiers died. Both sides have accused the other of overstepping the de facto border, the Line of Actual Control (LAC) that runs along with the…

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The dispute between India and China in Kashmir leads to the first deaths along their border in decades

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No official border through the Himalayas has been agreed by the two countries despite a 60-year truce Both sides used makeshift weapons rather than guns due to an agreement about not using military force China and India are looking to increase infrastructure in the contested region, which is fuelling recent unrest By Tracey Shelton & Tasha Wibawa High in the Himalayas, along a stretch of land that divides China’s autonomous region of Tibet from India, clashes have broken out between the two Asian giants in a major escalation of a…

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India challenges China’s sovereignty by changing Occupied Kashmir’s status: Dr Wang Shida

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India’s unilateral move to change the status quo of Kashmir constitutes a serious threat to regional peace and stability, Dr Wang Shida, Deputy Director of Institute of South Asian Studies at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), has stated in his article published by China Economic Net (CEN). India has, since last August, taken constant actions to unilaterally change the status quo of Kashmir and continued to exacerbate regional tensions, wrote the Chinese scholar. On August 5 last year, the Indian government revoked the Article 370 of the…

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Why Chinese and Indian troops are scuffling?

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By Archana Chaudhary China and India, two nuclear-armed powers with a combined population of 2.7 billion, have been gathering thousands of troops at a disputed border in a remote area of the Himalayas. It’s the latest flashpoint in a long history of border troubles between the two countries that includes a war in 1962 and a dust-up near Bhutan in 2017. The newest tensions along the 3,488 kilometer (2,167 miles) un-demarcated border come at a time of growing Chinese assertiveness in matters of sovereignty and as India grapples with a worsening…

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US Panel wants India on religious freedom blacklist

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A US government panel has called for India to be put on a religious freedom blacklist over a “drastic” downturn under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, triggering a sharp rebuttal from New Delhi. In an annual report published on Tuesday, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said India should join the ranks of “countries of particular concern” that would be subject to sanctions if they do not improve their records. “In 2019, religious freedom conditions in India experienced a drastic turn downward, with religious minorities under increasing assault,” the…

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Indian Expats in the Middle East warned of arrest, cancellation of Visa harboring RSS Ideology

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A prominent Keralite businessman in the UAE has apologised for unintentionally hurting religious sentiments through his poem about coronavirus.  In recent days several Indian expats have been called out for spreading hatred through Islamphobic posts in wake of the pandemic. Many have been subsequently fired and referred to authorities. And one RSS ideology  Expat who been found linked corona virus with religion cornered by local watch dog associations put up with a open suicide note open in social media raised many eyebrows . Titled ‘Viddi Janman’ (Fool’s life), the short…

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India neither ready to hold talks nor accepting mediation on Kashmir Issue: Shah Mehmood Qureshi

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Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday said that India is neither ready to hold talks bilaterally with Pakistan on Kashmir dispute nor does it accept third party mediation. Speaking to the media in Islamabad, Qureshi said, “Kashmir is a disputed territory and any demographic changes in occupied Kashmir will not be acceptable to Pakistan as well as Kashmiri people.” Responding to a question regarding the Afghan peace process, the foreign minister said, Pakistan is not a guarantor but only a facilitator in the Afghan peace process. “The entire onus…

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Kashmir Issue won’t be resolved bilaterally: Imran Khan post-meet with Donald Trump

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Buoyed by US President Donald Trump’s offer of mediation on Kashmir, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said that the contentious issue between the two South Asian neighbours can never be resolved bilaterally. Khan’s statement came hours after Trump offered to be the “mediator” between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir issue as the two leaders met at the White House where they discussed a host of issues, including the Afghan peace process. The Indian government has denied Trump’s astonishing claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him…

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‘If I can do anything to help, let me know’: Trump offers to mediate Kashmir Crisis between India and Pakistan

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Donald Trump has offered himself as a mediator to one of the world’s thorniest strategic disputes – the conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Speaking in the Oval Office with Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, Mr Trump said he was confident Islamabad would help the US reach a peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Then, to the astonishment of watchers of South Asia, Mr Trump claimed he had been asked by India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, to mediate between the two South Asian nations over the disputed territory…

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Al Qaeda chief, Ayman Al-Zawahiri threatens India over Kashmir

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Terror group Al Qaeda’s Chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has told “Mujahideen in Kashmir” to inflict “unrelenting blows” on the Indian Army and government in Jammu and Kashmir in a message released by the outfit’s media wing, as per the Foundation for Defence of Democracies’ (FDD) Long War Journal. He also brought to light Pakistan’s involvement in fuelling cross-border terrorism in Kashmir in the message titled “Don’t Forget Kashmir,” released by As Shabab. Thomas Joscelyn, in his article for the journal, wrote that Al Qaeda has been grooming an upstart group to…

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