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Global Village Space | The festering Kashmir dispute between nuclear neighbors Indian and Pakistan needs to be resolved for sustainable peace in South Asia, said the UN General Assembly’s (UNGA) president-elect on Monday. The long-smoldering issue should be resolved through “peaceful means,”...

Global Village Space | Article 35A of the constitution of India (abrogated on August 5, 2019, by Hindutva Govt) was the culmination of the long-standing rights movement of the people of Jammu & Kashmir that began when cash strapped East Indian Company sold Kashmir to Maharaja Gulab Singh on...

Global Village Space | The dispute over the State of Jammu and Kashmir is one of the oldest yet of the least understood cases in the world. For some, it is a simple legal case of the accession of a princely state; for others, it’s a question between India and Pakistan. Still, others maintain...

Global Village Space | Alan Campbell Johnson, in his famous book, “Mission with Mountbatten” writes – while trying to explain why Kashmir, amongst the princely states, represented a special problem that “there was a Hindu ruler with a state geographically contiguous to both dominions and the...

Global Village Space | Recent contacts between Pakistan and Bangladesh leaders have provided a rare glimpse of a possible, if not yet probable, detente after years of strained ties between the two countries, according to observers. Since the independence of Bangladesh [then East Pakistan] from...

Global Village Space | On Wednesday, India received a batch of five new Rafale fighter jets in the presence of Indian Air Force (IAF) Chief Air Chief Marshal (ACM) R.K.S. Bhadauria. The jets took off from France on Monday and landed in the UAE for an overnight stopover before reaching India...

Global Village Space | Pakistan handed over an improved version Tuesday of its indigenously developed main battle tank to the army. Islamabad’s joint venture with China and Ukraine was given to the Armored Corps Regiment of Pakistan Army at a ceremony at Heavy Industries Taxila (HIT)-a...

Global Village Space | The 2020 Nuclear Security Index by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) revealed that the progress on Global Nuclear Security had slowed significantly during the last two years. It also sounded an alarm on the probability of theft of nuclear, radiological material. However...

Global Village Space | Ridges in the Indo-Iran relationship have ascended to the surface again, driving the topic of whether India’s strategy and responsibility towards the advancement of the Chabahar Port venture are unwinding. Indo-Iran Relationship The railroad venture which was, initially...

Global Village Space | Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday dismissed a story published in an Australian news outlet on a Wuhan lab conducting alleged covert operations in Pakistan, calling it “politically motivated and fake”. “It is composed of distortion of facts and fabrications that quote...

Global Village Space | Pakistan Army troops shot down an Indian spying quadcopter in Pandu sector along the Line of Control (LoC), the military’s media affairs wing said on Sunday. “The quadcopter had intruded 200 metres on Pakistan’s side of the LoC,” said Major General Babar Iftikhar...

Global Village Space | ndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend a groundbreaking ceremony next month for the Ayodhya Temple construction on a disputed site in northern India where a 16th century mosque was torn down by Hindu hard-liners in 1992, according to the trust overseeing the temple...

Global Village Space | China and Iran are reportedly mulling over striking a strategic-cum-economic deal worth $400 billion. The yet-to-conclude deal is reportedly dropping India out of the key rail and energy projects signed four years ago. Earlier, India signed a deal with Iran in the...

Global Village Space | The first five of a batch of French Rafale fighter jets purchased by New Delhi in a controversial multibillion-dollar deal headed to India on Monday for rapid deployment amid rising tensions with China. The deal, estimated to be worth $9.4 billion, has been overshadowed...

Global Village Space | As the India-China face-off along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh remains unresolved, the PAF chief visited the base at Skardu where he addressed his troops. His visit comes at a time when China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops remain in an...

Global Village Space | The First World War showed plainly that the resort to armed conflict is the most devious and damaging of all policies. Even in the heart of militaristic Europe, the folly of war had long been noted by prominent and shrewd commanders, such as the Prussian General Hans von...

Global Village Space | “The history of the world is but the biography of great men,” Thomas Carlyle Thomas Carlyle in his book ‘Heroes and Hero Worship’ delineates the true qualities of a hero. Calryle was a British historian, satirical writer, essayist, translator, philosopher, mathematician...

Global Village Space | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will take part Friday in the first prayers at Hagia Sophia since the Istanbul landmark was reconverted to a mosque despite international condemnation. A top Turkish court revoked the sixth-century monument’s status as a museum on...

Global Village Space | Iran, together with India and Russia, is pushing forward with a sea and rail corridor that could substantially reduce the time and cost of shipping goods from India to Europe. If this Iranian-Indian-Russian push is successful, the corridor could challenge the Suez Canal’s...

Global Village Space | Post US’s economic downturn and global isolation triggered by the Coronavirus, Beijing sensed American vulnerability and initiated the Sino-Iranian deal. Finding the perfect moment to forge a strategic agreement with Iran The Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between...