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Global Village Space | India’s defence ministry Thursday signed off on the purchase of 33 Russian fighter jets and upgrades to 59 others worth $2.4 billion, amid rising tensions with nuclear-armed neighbour China. India buys Russian jets in the wake of the humiliation at Ladakh, which has...

Global Village Space | As expected, the controversy over Russia’s alleged bounties for killing American and NATO troops in Afghanistan is steadily snowballing. The New York Times has come out with more leaks such as bank transfers from accounts identified with the Russian military intelligence...

Global Village Space | A picture of a 3-year-old boy sitting on the corpse of his grandfather in the Sopore area of North Kashmir went viral on social media. The images of the helpless and petrified three-year-old broke the hearts of social media users. They rallied to sympathize with the...

Global Village Space | Javed Afridi, the owner of the PSL franchise, has hinted at hiring Ertugrul as the next brand ambassador for Peshawar Zalmi. In a tweet, he asked, “WHAT IF #ErtugrulGhazi JOIN PESHAWAR ZALMI AS A BRAND AMBASSADOR”. His tweet intrigued his followers and got a great...

Global Village Space | We’re all too used to seeing international media conveniently club together the words ‘Pakistan’ and ‘terrorism’ in one sentence. This fossilized narrative that the world has been fed over the years explains why Pakistan landed in the FATF grey list in June 2018. India...

Global Village Space | The following is the tale of how Pakistan International Airlines or PIA, a pioneer in the world of aviation, went from being a valuable asset for Pakistan to becoming nothing more than a scrapyard of the industry; the rot can wholly be attributed to political interference...

Global Village Space | When coronavirus claimed its first victim in India’s largest slum in April, many feared the disease would turn its narrow, congested streets into a graveyard, with social distancing or contact tracing all but impossible. However, the Indian slum has surprised all and...

Global Village Space | Israel-Palestine peace talks to resume as Palestinians agree to “minor” territorial concessions, according to a counter-proposal to a contentious US plan. Israel-Palestine talks: Palestine ready to negotiate A Palestinian Authority text sent to the international...

Global Village Space | India Monday has slammed Pakistan for claiming links between New Delhi and Monday’s terrorist attack on the Karachi stock exchange. The gunmen attacked the PSX building with grenades and guns, media reported. The building is in a high-security zone and also houses the...

Global Village Space | The New York Times’ fake news provocation alleging that Russia solicited the Taliban to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan aims to disrupt the country’s fragile peace process, reverse the minimal but nevertheless observable progress that was recently made towards...

Global Village Space | At the start of the coming week, on July 1, 2020, President Trump’s “deal of the century”, relating to Israel’s annexation of the settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, is scheduled to take effect. This deal, announced by President Trump in January 2020, is an uncloaked...

Global Village Space | The national budget 2020-21 presented today offers no surprises. Announced in a typical PTI style where, as usual, ambiguity prevails on where the real ownership lies – for preparing such a lackluster cum unimaginative document – and with the mere relief being that at...

Global Village Space | Pakistan rejected the granting of domicile certificates to thousands of Indian nationals Saturday in Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir, characterizing it as an attempt to change the demographic structure of the disputed region. As many as 25,000 people have been granted...

Global Village Space | Several Danish political parties are urging the government to investigate banning calls to prayer due to the disruption they cause. But the move makes no mention of Islam because of likely issues with Denmark’s constitution. Denmark’s second-largest party, Venstre, is...

Global Village Space | US House lawmakers made history Friday by voting for Washington to become the nation’s 51st state, but the move, a push for equal voting rights for the capital’s residents, is doomed in the Senate. A small chorus of cheers went up as the measure passed along party lines...

Global Village Space | The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday filed a reference against Mir Shakil ur Rahman, Jang Group Editor-in-Chief, in an accountability court in an illegal plot allotment case. Besides, Mir Shakil, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, former Lahore Development...

Global Village Space| Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan faced a growing backlash Thursday after he said former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was “martyred“. Khan made the comment in parliament as he was describing the history of Pakistan’s troubled relations with the US since American...

Global Village Space| Companies in the United Arab Emirates and Israel will join forces to research and develop technology to fight the novel coronavirus, the two countries, which have no official diplomatic ties, said Thursday. The UAE-Israel collaboration is a cog in the much greater wheel of...

Global Village Space | In the recent post-budget debate Khawaja Muhammad Asif, son of Khawaja Muhammad Safdar of Sialkot, stated that Pakistan had not played its role in blocking the permanent membership of India in the United Nations Security Council( UNSC ). It was a misleading statement by...

Global Village Space | While much of the focus in recent weeks has been on Israel’s relations with China, the real litmus test of the USA ability to counter the People’s Republic’s growing footprint in the Middle East is likely to be in the Gulf. In talks last month with US Secretary of State...