All India Peoples Front (AIPF) believes that defeating BJP and its allies in this Lok Sabha election should be the first political agenda of the people. The reason is very clear. Bharatiya Janata Party is not an ordinary party. This is a political organization of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh which wants to make many groups and communities of the society cultural […]

In the lead-up to the general elections, India’s rising status on the world stage is a big win for Modi in the eyes of many Indian voters. Introduction One of the most obvious yet understudied trends in India over the past decade has been the emergence of foreign policy as a domestic political issue. In the past, scholars and close […]

Hamas’s growing alliance with Russia and China has been a critical development following Hamas’s October 7 attack. Russia has gained from the shift in global attention away from Ukraine; China, from the shift away from Taiwan – all eyes, it seems, are fixed on the Israel-Hamas war. Chinese commentators point out that the Hamas-Israel conflict offers China an opportunity for […]

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Tuesday called for an immediate cease-fire and uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid in Gaza. Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, on a visit to Islamabad, said that international efforts toward a cease-fire between Israel and the militant group Hamas have been “wholly insufficient.” “We are now actively discussing the potential for famine in […]

A new U.S. military review identified the bomber for the first time and found that the 2021 deadly attack was not preventable. The man who detonated a bomb outside the Kabul airport in August 2021, killing 170 Afghans and 13 American service members, was an Islamic State operative who had been held in a coalition detention facility in Afghanistan but […]

A supplemental review of the original investigation into the 2021 suicide bombing attack that killed 13 U.S. service members and roughly 170 Afghan civilians at Hamid Karzai International Airport’s Abbey Gate has reaffirmed the military’s findings of the initial investigation and identifies the attacker. Ordered by U.S. Army Central Command in September 2023, the results of the two-year supplemental review […]

On April 12, 2024, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) special court at Kochi in Ernakulam District sentenced four cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) to rigorous imprisonment (RI). The four were convicted on April 9, 2024, in connection with a 2014 case relating to assault, threat and arson, etc., against a senior officer of the Kerala Police. Accused […]

Hanoi authorities are considering a baseline marking Vietnam’s territory in the Gulf of Tonkin, Radio Free Asia has learned. In March, Beijing announced a new baseline demarcating China’s territorial sea – deemed by experts as “excessive” – in the northern part of the gulf. Chinese officials said the baseline was made “in accordance” with domestic and international laws. Two Vietnamese […]

On April 9, 2024, the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) released a report on street crimes in Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh. The report revealed that as many as 22,627 crimes were reported in the city in the first three months (January-March) of 2024. During this period, 154 people lost their lives in various incidents, including 59 people who lost […]

Germany could shape the outcomes of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Its reluctance to do so reveals a leadership unwilling to match its economic strength with political influence. An official visit to China is like a pilgrimage for German leaders and a ritual for German company bosses. The former Social Democrat chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, went to China six times […]