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Tribune News Service
NEW DELHI, APRIL 18
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi landed in Dubai on Sunday, but both sides insisted they had left their countries at a short notice to separately meet their UAE counterpart and no bilateral between them was planned.
Playing mediator
India and Pakistan have ruled out any bilateral between the two
The UAE had played a key role in bringing India and Pakistan together recently
A senior UAE diplomat has owned up to his country’s role in brokering peace between India and Pakistan that began with a ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) in February. But the talks hit a hurdle after Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan walked back on his decision to resume partial trade with India.
Daily Times
April 20, 2021
On April 14, US President Joe Biden announced that all his country’s troops would leave Afghanistan by September 11, 2021; and not by May 1, as pledged by the former White House administration. Indeed, Biden claimed that the US had achieved its objectives in Afghanistan, saying: “We went to Afghanistan in 2001 to root out Al Qaeda, to prevent future terrorist attacks against the United States planned from Afghanistan. We accomplished that objective”.
Yet ground realities in Afghanistan contradict Biden’s talk of success. After all, there are reports of a Taliban-Al Qaeda nexus. Back in October of last year, Edmund Fitton-Brown, co-ordinator of the UN’s Monitoring Team on the Islamic State, Al Qaeda and the Taliban, confirmed as much to the BBC, noting that Al Qaeda was “heavily embedded” within the Taliban in Afghanistan. In addition, that same month saw Afghan Special Forces kill top Al Qaeda chief Husam Abd al-Rauf (Abu Muhsin al-Masri) i
Australia intensifies military preparations for US-China conflict over Taiwan
At the urging of the Biden administration, the Australian government and the country’s military are working intensely with the US to ramp up their preparations for what could be a catastrophic war against China for control over Taiwan.
The plans would place Australian forces on the front line of a US drive to reassert Washington’s global hegemony that is increasingly focused on the strategically and economically crucial island, just 160 kilometres from the Chinese mainland.
Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison (AP/Kiyoshi Ota)
The
Australian Financial Review (AFR) informed its corporate readership last Friday: “The Australian government has sharply escalated its internal preparations for potential military action in the Taiwan Strait.”
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