With Lok Sabha elections looming, some farm organisations decided this is a good time to try and see if GOI can be arm-twisted to give more goodies. Their list of demands can be broken up.
That eight Indian ex-navymen, initially sentenced to death in Qatar, are now free is in no small part thanks to GOI’s behind-the-door talks. Procedurally, govt had appealed the case in Qatari courts. That had already.
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It’s hard to imagine a worse candidate description: “Well meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” It would not even grab an entry-level govt job. Not even in a banana republic. And yet, this is.
No matter who gets the keys to Islamabad’s govt mansions, Pakistan will be in heaps of trouble for months, perhaps years, to come. Pakistan’s polycrisis includes a lurching economy, security in Pak’s western borders going.