Islamabad/New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir’s shortsightedness has failed the country on both domestic and international fronts despite all the diplomatic theatrics. At the domestic level, Pakistan is grappling with energy and economic challenges, with inflation soaring to 300 per cent, while the country’s energy sector is facing almost a “complete shutdown”. Globally, Pakistan’s limited diplomatic leverage during the Iran-US mediation has left peace talks in a “fragil…
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Tehran, June 6 (IANS) Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Saturday that it attacked US military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain earlier in the day in retaliation for US attacks on Qeshm Island and Sirik County in southern Iran. In a statement on its official news outlet Sepah News, the IRGC identified the targeted US bases as the Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait and the US Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain.At 1:30 a.m. local time on Saturday (2200 GMT Friday), four oil tankers, gui…
Tehran, June 6 (IANS) A senior advisor to Iran’s supreme leader has called on US President Donald Trump to make decisions independently of Israel, stop the blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, and release Iran’s frozen assets.The negotiations between the two sides “are at a deadlock and Trump must break this deadlock,” Mohsen Rezaei, military advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, said in an exclusive interview with CNN on Friday (local time) in Tehran.If Trump wants to reach an agreeme…
Havana, June 6 (IANS) Cuba has rejected remarks by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Washington does not block oil shipments to the island, citing an American measure that imposes penalties on countries supplying oil to Cuba. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez wrote on the social media platform X on Friday (local time) that Rubio had repeatedly claimed the US government does not block oil shipments to Cuba, reports Xinhua news agencyRodriguez pointed to Executive Order 14380, signed by …
Washington, June 6 (IANS) President Donald Trump has promised to lower energy and fertiliser costs for American farmers and said his administration was working to expand export markets and strengthen farm incomes.Speaking at an agriculture roundtable in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, on Friday (local time), Trump said farmers would see improving conditions in the coming months.”You’re going to see some very good things happen over the next 90-day period,” Trump said.”I told Ken 90 days, watch what h…
Washington, June 6 (IANS) Senior US lawmakers and policy experts have issued a stark warning that Turkey is moving steadily away from democratic governance, with concerns mounting over political repression, judicial independence and the imprisonment of opposition leaders ahead of a key NATO summit in Ankara next month.At a hearing of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, lawmakers from both parties questioned whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government would allow meaningful political …
Visakhapatnam, June 5 (IANS) Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday that India and the US are likely to sign the first phase of the bilateral trade agreement by the middle of July.”We had excellent discussions from June 2-4 this month. We had a full team of officials from different divisions of trade from the US in New Delhi. I also met them yesterday. We are fast-moving towards closing all the open ends. Sometime by the middle of next month or so, we should be in a position to execute a …
Abu Dhabi, June 5 (IANS) India’s traditional nonalignment strategic autonomy is being redefined into proactive engagement and power projection for an era of competitive multipolarity, a report has stated. The recentering of force in Indian foreign policy in the Defence Force vision 2047 document released by the Defence Ministry indicates that strategic autonomy is not merely a defensive plan but is becoming proactive and power projective, a report in Modern Diplomacy mentioned.“This shift is…
New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) India is expected to surpass China in terms of its share of global GDP measured in purchasing power parity (PPP) by 2060, a report has said.The report from Paris School of Economics (PSE)-based World Inequality Lab (WIL) said that China’s contribution to global GDP is likely to decline in the second half of the 21st century.China’s share in world GDP currently around 20 per cent in PPP terms will remain large through the 2030s, but its rapidly falling population will wei…
New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) Iran’s Ambassador to India, Mohammad Fathali, on Friday expressed Iran’s commitment to the ceasefire and dialogue. However, he emphasised that Iran’s security and sovereignty remain their red line and warned of reciprocal response at the same level if Iran faces an attack.In an interview with IANS, Fathali stated that Iran has never initiated war and has consistently called for peaceful and political solutions and accused the US forces of violating the April 8 ceasefire….