India, UAE bolster infrastructure, cyber security cooperation
Imparting a fresh traction to their burgeoning strategic partnership, India and the United Arab Emirates, the Gulf’s economic powerhouse, have signed pacts spanning cybersecurity, infrastructure investment, renewable energy and space cooperation. The pacts were signed after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held wide-ranging talks with Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in New Delhi on February 11.
Syria support group aims for temporary truce in a week
Trying to secure a ceasefire for the civil war in Syria has not succeeded so far with the peace talks put on hold. However, diplomats of the International Syrian Support Group (ISSG) have agreed to try to work out details and implement a temporary truce in the coming week. While the foreign ministers from the […]
Musharraf confirms Headley’s confession: ISI trains Lashkar, Jaish
Barely a day after David Coleman Headley had revealed that Pakistan’s ISI funds terror groups like Lashkar-e- Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), Pakistan’s former president and military ruler Pervez Musharraf has confirmed that the ISI trains these terror groups and not the army. “Pakistan Army is not training civilians. Intelligence organisation on our side as […]
India’s growing influence and ambition
These developments come at a time when the United States is rebalancing towards Asia; Japan under Prime Minister Abe is modifying its post-war pacifist constitution; and most of Southeast Asia’s countries are increasingly looking towards India to become a credible counter-weight to balance China. Several Asia-Pacific countries have cast doubts on China’s so-called ‘peaceful rise’, […]