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1 week ago | 
counterpunch.org | Nilofar Suhrawardy
Notwithstanding the manner in which headlines of Indian papers and channels are shrieking about India edging closer towards war with Pakistan, also known as its permanent enemy, answers to several questions seem to be getting more difficult to unravel. Yes, India has its own reasons to blame Pakistan for terrorists attack on its territory (Pahalgam, Jammu & Kashmir) and subsequently seriously consider the option of a war with it.
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1 week ago | 
countercurrents.org | Nilofar Suhrawardy
Tension between India and Pakistan, following terrorists’ strike on tourists at Baisaran Valley, Pahalgam in India-controlled Jammu and Kashmir (JK) has raised possibility of the two heading for a war. Terrorists’ strike led to death of 26 tourists on April 22, 2025. India has held Pakistan as responsible for the Pahalgam terror attack while Pakistan has denied the charges.
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1 week ago | 
counterpunch.org | Nilofar Suhrawardy
Tension between India and Pakistan, following terrorists’ strike on tourists at Baisaran Valley, Pahalgam in India-controlled Jammu and Kashmir (JK) has raised possibility of the two heading for a war. Terrorists’ strike led to death of 26 tourists on April 22, 2025. India has held Pakistan as responsible for the Pahalgam terror attack while Pakistan has denied the charges.
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2 weeks ago | 
countercurrents.org | Nilofar Suhrawardy
President Donald Trump wants Tehran to take his stand regarding “nuclear talks” seriously or else face “consequences,” that of “bombing” and more. Certainly, talks have begun but there is no certainty about what are they heading for. United States suspects of Iran having potential of developing nuclear weapons, which it wants to abandon. Iran has rejected this claim, saying that its nuclear program is for civilian energy purposes.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Nancy Qian |Nilofar Suhrawardy |Kumar Singh |Marietje Schaake
ROME – With little economic or political rationale, US President Donald Trump has introduced some of the highest tariffs in more than a century, and imposed them on nearly every economy in the world. Then, suddenly, despite his insistence that the tariffs were here to stay, he paused the new “reciprocal” tariffs for all countries except one, keeping in place an across-the-board 10% levy for the rest.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Nilofar Suhrawardy
During his first term in office, President Donald Trump’s anti-China policies seemed as aggressive and assertive as they are now. Paradoxically, though those centred around a totally different issue, they certainly had a negative impact on US, Trump himself and of course greater part of the world. Yes, this was Trump’s claim that the disease Covid-19 was a “Chinese virus.” It was alleged that the pandemic leaked from a Chinese laboratory and Trump promoted the same.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Nilofar Suhrawardy
So should certain leaders’ claim about amended Waqf Bill being directed to help “poor” Muslims be accepted? If the leaders were really so concerned about helping “poor” Muslims, it is surprising that they haven’t taken needed action on so many fronts where “poor” Muslims are being and have been targeted. These include bulldozing of their properties- houses as well as work-places, spread of negative messages against them through social media, provoking communal behavior against them and so forth.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Shreya Singh |Vikas Meshram |Yanis Iqbal |Nilofar Suhrawardy
The National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) expresses its deep shock and strongly condemns the recent judgment of the Allahabad High Court, dated March 19, delivered by Justice Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra, which stated that “grabbing the breast of a girl and breaking her pant string is not an attempt to rape, but an attempt to sexually molest.”The judgment came in the context of an incident in 2021 when an 11-year-old girl was attacked by two men in Kasganj area of Uttar Pradesh.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Nilofar Suhrawardy |Dinkar Kapoor |Suresh Khairnar |Justice Markandey Katju
How much have women around the world really gained by March 8 being marked as International Women’s Day in most parts? Or it would be perhaps be better to say that this is in essence a way of honoring them? Is it really? It should be, but for several decades the day appears to have become a manner of acknowledging the importance of women, expressing the need of their being accorded greater respect, more powers and so forth?
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Subhash Gatade |Prem Singh |Mubashir Vp |Nilofar Suhrawardy
“ Do Not Put Each Foot in a Different Boat.”– Chinese ProverbA defeat in elections should not be The End of politics for a political party. There are examples how parties who were humbled in one election could bounce back with huge majority in next elections.
