The Indian government is in touch with Oman after reports of the Gulf nation hosting the controversial “fugitive” preacher Zakir Naik, an external affairs ministry spokesperson said on Friday. “Zakir Naik is an accused in numerous cases in India. He’s a fugitive from justice. We have taken up the matter with the Government of Oman, with Oman authorities and we […]

The Islamic Emirate officials say five countries are interested in investing in the “lithium” mining sector in Afghanistan’s Nuristan province. Mohammad Yunus Rashid, the deputy of youth in the Ministry of Information and Culture, said that Japan, the US, China, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates are among the countries that are interested in investing in the mining sector of […]

Amir Khan Muttaqi, foreign minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), has once again asked the world to lift sanctions imposed on the country and expressed willingness to work with all nations, including the US. In an article published in Al Jazeera, Muttaqi, said that not only has the war come to an end but Afghanistan is being administered […]

Since the deterioration of Australia-China relations during the Morrison administration in 2020, China has implemented a series of sanctions against Australia, no longer importing Australian coal, lobster, and its other major exports to China. Accounting for 40% of Australia’s total exports, China has been Australia’s largest export destination, hence these sanctions have had a significant impact on the Australian economy. […]

Pessimism surrounds the future of China–US relations and the possibility of conflict between the two nuclear powers. The Taiwan Strait has become the most likely flashpoint for conflict amid US strategic competition with China and growing disagreement over the Taiwan question. Though the United States’ One China policy is different from China’s One China principle, there is consensus between the […]

Territorial disputes shouldn’t be solved through “coercion and intimidation,” the Philippines said Friday as its diplomats prepared to confront Chinese counterparts about China’s recent actions in contested waters, including pointing a military-grade laser at the Filipino coast guard. Philippine Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Ma. Theresa Lazaro delivered the message before she, Chinese Foreign Vice Minister Sun Weidong, and their respective delegations […]

Post 9/11 era brought dramatic shifts in policy making of the sates not just at the local level, but the event is being accused of changing the whole course of international politics. State security in traditional terms and countering terrorism that had been neglected before, was securitized again. In all these securitizations and awareness campaigns, the US played a significant […]

A 22-member team of Myanmar immigration officials visited Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar to verify more than 400 Rohingya refugees as part of a pilot repatriation project. Does it hold out any hope for the forcibly displaced people to return to their ancestral homes in the Rakhine state of Myanmar? Only time will tell. However, the Beijing-mediated project could […]

On February 25, 2023, a National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) cadre, identified as Bidhu Debbarma, was handed over to the Tripura Police through Assam’s Sutarkandi Border Observation Post (BOP), by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB). On January 4, 2023, the cadres of the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) shot dead a local tribal leader of the Communist Party of […]

On March 15, 2023, a group of four Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres reached Arimala Colony in Tondarnad Grama Panchayat (village level local self-government institution) in the Wayanad District of Kerala and distributed pamphlets propagating their ideology. Of the four, three members of the Maoist group were suspected to be Unnimaya, Chandru, and Sundari. The identity of the fourth […]