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Oct 28, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Narayanappa Janardhan |Husain Haqqani
The BRICS group — named after its five founding members, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — has become a broader grouping of non-Western countries that wants to stay out of growing U.S.-China competition and hopes to reset the world order. The inclusion of the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Ethiopia and Iran in the 16th BRICS Summit in Russia last week formally marked the group’s expansion.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Narayanappa Janardhan |Husain Haqqani
3 hours agoPuerto Ricans react to 'island of garbage' comment Puerto Ricans have said the joke Tony Hinchcliffe made at Trump’s Sunday rally was “disrespectful” and “racist”. Puerto Ricans react to 'island of garbage' comment Puerto Ricans have said the joke Tony Hinchcliffe made at Trump’s Sunday rally was …
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | Husain Haqqani
Imran Khan retains considerable popularity, especially in Punjab and the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provinces. His young supporters are also more active on, and more adept at using, social media. Many Pakistanis believe that Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) would have won a lot more seats in the February 8 General Elections had the poll process been truly free and fair. But despite several attempts, Khan has failed to ignite a sustained nationwide protest campaign.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | Husain Haqqani
Then there is that killer voice — and ah, Ramratti’s favourite muski!Success took time to come to Amitabh. In a world of chocolate-faced heroes, he was, like the song says, “Just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed/Nothing seems to fit).” Then Fate spun its miracles. Amitabh worked with Hrishi da in Anand who cast him as the stern but soft-hearted Babu Moshai.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Husain Haqqani |Aparna Pande
President Biden hosted the leaders of Australia, Japan, and India for a Quadrilateral Summit at his home in Delaware over the weekend, to reiterate the primacy of the geopolitical challenge from China. “The Quad,” as it has become known, has evolved into America’s major mechanism for facing China’s increasingly assertive posture in the Indo-Pacific. Together, the four Quad democracies comprise 2 billion people and more than one-third of global GDP.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | Husain Haqqani
Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister, Ishaq Dar, has walked back an announcement by the country’s Information Minister Attaullah Tarar about the government’s plans to ban the party of imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan. But the idea of banning Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has been delayed, not abandoned. An outright ban would be no more effective in denting Khan’s popularity than other high-handed measures so far.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
t.ly | Husain Haqqani
By New Age Islam StaffWriter13 July2024Poor Quality of Education and Low Literacy RateHave Resulted in ExtremismMain Points:1.Extremism and vigilantism inPakistan have scared away investors. 1.2.Pakistan has incurred loss of $123billion thanks to extremism and terrorism in the last one decade. 2.Pakistani politicians wronglybelieve extremism to be a tool of security and diplomacy. -------ASPSyeda Shehrbano Naqvi (left) and an image of the design that sparked theincident.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
theprint.in | Husain Haqqani |Aparna Pande
The result of India’s latest elections is in some ways a reminder of how democracies can successfully apply self-correction mechanisms. In addition to concerns about over implementing BJP’s Hindutva ideology, which equates Indianness with Hinduism, some observers were worried about the prospect of authoritarianism in India. Modi’s team tended to brush aside criticism even when it came from longstanding friends or admirers.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Husain Haqqani |Aparna Pande
At the start of India’s 44-day election exercise, during which 900 million eligible voters could cast their ballot in seven phases, pundits predicted an easy win for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). But once the 640 million votes, reflecting a 67 percent turnout, were counted, the results surprised everyone, above all Modi himself.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
geo.tv | Husain Haqqani
After a flurry of praise for the police officer who saved her life, most Pakistanis seem to have forgotten the incident in Lahore involving the woman who was accused of blasphemy for wearing a dress with Arabic calligraphy. That a woman was almost lynched for wearing clothes that an illiterate crowd mistook for religious text highlights Pakistan’s extremism problem. Dismissing events like this incident as outliers or choosing to ignore them will not prevent them from occurring again.
