Washington, Jan 12 (IANS) HinduACTion will hold a congressional briefing on Capitol Hill on January 16 to spotlight what it calls the persecution, forced conversions, and trafficking of Hindu, Christian, and other religious minorities in Pakistan.The briefing “Our Lost Daughters of Sindh” is aimed at members of Congress, congressional staff, officials from the US State Department and National Security Council, human rights advocates and groups working against human trafficking, a media relea…
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Washington, Jan 11 (IANS) High expectations for India–US relations under President Donald Trump have dissipated, with enthusiasm and sustained political investment sharply reduced compared with recent years, according to Joshua T. White, a former White House official and leading South Asia expert.“It’s pretty clear that we’re in a bad place,” White said, pointing to high expectations at the start of President Donald Trump’s term that have since dissipated. He said there were “high …
Washington, Jan 6 (IANS) Russia at one point signaled a willingness to allow the United States latitude in Venezuela in exchange for Washington easing its position on Ukraine, according to seven-year-old congressional testimony by Fiona Hill, a former senior National Security Council official, an account that has resurfaced amid renewed scrutiny of great-power bargaining.The episode was recalled in New York Times report on Monday and traces back to testimony Hill delivered to Congress in 2019, w…