Kanwal Sibal

External Affairs Minister Jaishankar’s interview to ANI made some cogent and irrefutable points about the campaign in the western media and NGO circles against Prime Minister Modi. Independently of what …

Was General Musharraf really a man of peace or was he a schemer and a manipulator who was determined to obtain his objectives on Kashmir by hook or by crook? …

India has long experience of Pakistan and its perfidy. Since its creation Pakistan has been hostile to India. Despite the transformation of the international landscape since 1947 and countries adapting …

The BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a product of entrenched anti-Modi and anti-Indian lobbies in the UK of which the BBC is a part. Modi has been …

India will have to cope in 2023, as it has done in all previous years, with global changes which are always a mix of positives and negatives. India will be …

Caption: Effigy of Pakistani foreign minister set aflame during protest India suffers from a curse of geography with a neighbour like Pakistan. It is not a normal neighbour as it …

The 14th anniversary of the gruesome Mumbai terror attacks has gone by without its perpetrators being brought to justice. Those massacred belonged to many nationalities, including 6 Americans, yet Pakistan …

External Affairs Minister’s Jaishankar’s visit to Moscow on November 7-8 for consultations with Foreign Minister Lavrov and a meeting of the Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technical and Cultural …

As expected, Xi Jinping has got a third term as China’s leader. With the Constitutional amendments making him and his Thought the core of the nation, and given his relatively …

India continues to do tight rope walking on the Ukraine conflict in the United Nations. It abstained again on October 12 in the UN General Assembly on a resolution moved …

Prime Minister Modi’s participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Samarkand has to be seen in the context of the several geopolitical dimensions of this organisation which also have …

India has had strong traditional ties with Russia. After the break-up of the Soviet Union and the emergence of Ukraine as an independent country, India has had friendly ties with …

<p> <strong>China’s ambassador to India in a newspaper interview expresses the hope that India will support the One China policy, calling such support the foundation of China’s relations with all …

<p> As India rises and its global footprint increases, its foreign policy has to keep pace. There is international acceptance that India is set to become the third largest economy …

<p> Prime Minister Modi has been invited to the three-day G 7 summit in Germany starting from June 26. The context of this meeting has changed drastically because of the …

<p> Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Op-Ed piece in the Hindu (April 22) contained many thoughtful observations on the implications of the current Ukraine crisis for the international community and …

<p> The India-US 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue on April 11, 2022 no doubt carried the momentum of bilateral ties forward. But the timing was not the most opportune.</p> <p> The US …

<p> <strong>For the West to build pressure on India to condemn Russia for its invasion of Ukraine as some kind of a political and moral obligation for a democracy is …

<p> India, as well as others, should draw some hard lessons from the wide fall-out of the Ukraine crisis. One, it has proved that possession of a mighty nuclear arsenal …

<p> <strong>The developing confrontation between the West and Russia on the Ukraine issue does not serve India’s interests. We have very friendly ties with the US, Europe and Russia and …

<p> <strong>The Ministry of External Affairs has allocated a sum of Rs 200 crores (as against Rs 350 crores last year) as assistance to Afghanistan in the 2022-23 budget. This …