London, July 12 (IANS) China considers Iran as a second-tier partner while Pakistan continues to occupy a first-tier position. That asymmetry showcased during the recent conflict in West Asia as China did not send a single warship, missile battery or a soldier after the Israeli and American strikes killed Iran’s then-Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior military officials, a report has claimed. “China’s Iran strategy is not an alliance. It is a hedge, calibrated to the barrel a…
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Kuwait, April 24, (IANS) Explosive drones that originated from Iraq hit two posts of Kuwait on the northern border, the country’s Ministry of Defence stated on Friday. “This morning, two sites of the northern land border centers of the State of Kuwait were targetted in a sinful aggressive attack by two fiber-optic wire-guided explosive drones originating from the Republic of Iraq, resulting in material damage, with no human casualties recorded, praise be to God,” read a statement issued by K…
London, Feb 13 (IANS) Pakistan is not only suffering from militancy but also suffering from the consequences of a ruling elite that considered militancy as a strategic asset, governance as an inconvenience and accountability as a foreign concept, a report has stated. “Every collapsing regime needs an external villain. Pakistan’s establishment has turned this into a reflex. Kabul did it. New Delhi did it. Foreign agencies did it. Invisible hands did it. The only entity permanently exempt from s…