100 Days of Lockdown: Journalists Protest Internet Ban in Kashmir
Kashmiri journalists display laptops and placards during a protest demanding restoration of Internet service, in Srinagar, yesterday. Since August political...
Month: November 2019
Blind Singer Goes From Streets to Stardom in Nigeria
KADUNA, Nigeria — Yahaya Makaho feels his way to the microphone before launching into a song for his new album...
Statue of Indian Pilot Shot Down over Kashmir on Display
DESPARDES -- A statue of an Indian pilot whose plane was shot down over Kashmir earlier this year has been...
India: ‘Mistrust Economy’ or ‘Modinomics’?
DESPARDES -- When Narendra Modi was first elected in 2014, many hoped he would focus on the economy over social...
Why Imran Khan Deserves Praise for Kartarpur Corridor: C J Werleman
Any student of India-Pakistan relations knows that breakthroughs derived from track one diplomacy are few and far between C J...
Ex-PM Nawaz Sharif Going Abroad for Medical Treatment
Three return tickets have been booked – for Nawaz, his brother Shehbaz Sharif and family physician Dr Adnan Khan –...
India’s Top Court Hands Over Babri Mosque Land to Hindus
"The entire demolition was carried out in an orchestrated manner": Justice MS Liberhan, the man who indicted 68 members of...
Changing Faces of Pakistan: Bulleh Shah in Kartarpur, Violin in ISB, Mughal Painting in LHR
DESPARDES -- IT'S A WATERSHED day in the history of the subcontinent. "The future trajectory of Pakistan and India cross...
Moody’s Downgrades India’s Outlook to ‘Negative’ From ‘Stable’; Slowdown Long-Lasting
India's economic growth will remain “materially lower than in the past” according to Moody's forecast. It predicts growth slowdown will...
Sikhs Trek to Kartarpur Shrine –Including Who’s Who
5000 pilgrims are expected to visit Kartarpur daily. That's nearly 2 million a year in numbers, but potentially billions in...
