Seoul, March 27 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held summit talks with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Pyongyang and signed a treaty on friendship and cooperation, the North’s state media reported Friday.Lukashenko, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, had made a two-day official visit to North Korea at the invitation of Kim, and reportedly said bilateral ties between Pyongyang and Minsk were upgraded to a “new stage.”Kim and Lukashenko also signed a number of agreeme…
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Kabul: Pakistan is desperately trying to present itself as a State under siege, targetted by militants allegedly operating from Afghan soil, forced to take unilateral military action to protect its citizens. However, when placed against the backdrop of regional history, this narrative appears deeply contradictory. Pakistan’s frustration today is inseparable from its own long-standing policies in Afghanistan, policies that deliberately nurtured militancy, institutionalized proxy warfare, and tr…
Washington, March 1 (IANS) Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday said Israel’s campaign against Iran is steadily eroding the regime’s grip on power, arguing that sustained strikes are weakening the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and creating space for the Iranian people to determine their future.“Well, we’ve got plenty of targets to weaken and weaken the regime, the IRGC, a siege of all the terror apparatus that is terrorising its own people,” Bennett said in …
Washington, Feb 25 (IANS) The United States is using democracy promotion as a strategic instrument of national security, lawmakers and Trump Administration officials said, describing the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) as a frontline tool for advancing American interests abroad.Top lawmakers during an oversight hearing on Capitol Hill examined how support for democratic institutions overseas aligns with broader foreign policy priorities and geopolitical competition with authoritarian powe…
United Nations, Feb 24 (IANS) The intractable Ukraine War entered its fourth year on Tuesday with no early sign of an end to the conflict that has spread its tentacles across the world, destabilising geopolitics and international trade. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called it “a stain on our collective consciousness and remains a threat to regional and international peace and security.”According to the UN, more than 15,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed and 41,000 injured in the fou…
Islamabad, Feb 12 (IANS) Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said that Pakistan’s involvement in Afghanistan’s decades of conflict was driven by political legitimacy and securing support from global powers instead of religious motives, local media reported. In his recent remarks at the National Assembly, Asif stated that Pakistan’s involvement in wars related to Afghanistan, starting during the Cold War and continuing after September 11, 2001 attack was a strategic choice to get backing…