In diplomacy, the subtext is often as important as the text. As the sixth edition of the annual Heart of Asia Conference came to a close on Sunday, between the comments and declarations, the narrative and the counter-narrative, lay the contours of a new, deviatory foreign policy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani. A nation’s strategic affairs are usually the result of well-curated... 

As Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s speech at Saarc conference in Islamabad became a talking point on Wednesday, a different geopolitical narrative was unfolding in China’s Xinjiang province. File photo of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Afghanistan’s Chief of General Staff General Qadam Shah Shahim, China’s Chief of Joint Staff General Fang Fenghui, Tajikistan’s Chief of General Staff Major General... 

US Congressman, Matt Salmone said US is ‘being so stupid. It seems like paying the mafia’. WASHINGTON: A manipulative Pakistan which supports terrorist elements has been treating the US like chumps, American lawmakers and experts have said while calling for cutting off aid to the country and listing it as a state sponsoring terrorism. “They are making chumps out of us. They see us we are being so stupid. It seems like paying the... 

According to Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh, RSS is quite similar to Taliban. “I am saying this because both are fundamentalist in nature and they want to take us back to the 18th century,” said the senior Congress leader. He went on to say that “only fundamentalists want to prescribe a dress code for women and by doing this they want to hide their own misbehaviour”. Digvijaya believes that the day was not far...