New York, April 30 (IANS) Affirming his anti-colonial principles, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said that he would have told visiting UK King Charles to return the Kohinoor diamond that has come to be a symbol of British loot of India. Before he was to meet the monarch on Wednesday (local time) at a ceremony to honour the 9/11 victims, he said, “If I were to speak to the King separately from that, I’d probably encourage him to return the Kohinoor diamond”.Later, the Democratic Soc…
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Islamabad, April 27 (IANS) Pakistan is mediating between Iran and the US out of necessity. For Pakistan, a destabilised Iran increases space for militants on the western flank and tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran risk triggering pact obligations, a report has stated. By mediating between the US and Iran, Pakistan has gained visibility. However, diplomatic access does not lead to an agreement and leverage does not imply a cash flow. Until each gets paid, packaged and converted, Pakistan is …
Islamabad, April 26 (IANS) For Islamabad, it would be wiser to “redirect its diplomatic initiatives toward internal stabilisation rather than focusing on mediating distant conflicts”, an opinion piece in the local media said.The neighbouring country has attempted to mediate between the US and Iran amid the West Asia conflict.In the middle of the war in the Middle East, Pakistan and China had announced a Five-Point Initiative for restoring peace and stability in the Gulf and the wider Middle East…
New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) What could be more ironic — or more unsettling — than a country long accused of harbouring terrorists presenting itself as a venue for peace talks? The contradiction is not just hard to ignore; it is even harder to justify. It becomes sharper when one considers that the United States — a nation that suffered one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in modern history — now finds itself relying, directly or indirectly, on Pakistan to facilitate pathways to peace. This …
Los Angeles, March 27 (IANS) Hollywood actress Lisa Kudrow is walking down the memory lane. The actress has shared that she still gets “a little emotional” remembering how her iconic sitcom ‘Friends’ impacted people after 9/11. The actress, who essayed the role of Phoebe Buffay in the sitcom, understood that the series gave people a sense of escapism following the horrific terrorist attacks on the United States, which claimed the lives of 2,977 victims, reports ‘Female First UK’.She told…
New York, Jan 6 (IANS) Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan leader who was captured by the US and brought here to face narco-terrorism charges, told a federal judge that he is innocent and is a “prisoner of war”.Brought to court under heavy security on Monday for his first hearing, he said through a translator, “I am a kidnapped president. I am a prisoner of war”.US Delta Force troops took him and his wife, Cilia Flores, from a military base in Venezuela in a precise operation on Saturday morn…