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Abdul Basit
Abdul Basit is President, Margalla International Relations Institute, Islamabad. He was previously Pakistan's ambassador to Germany and Pakistan High Commissioner for India. Twitter: @abasitpak1
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The India-Pakistan gridlock
At last month’s UNGA session, Prime Minister Imran Khan in his address insisted on settling the Kashmir dispute as per the UN Security Council resolutions whereas Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not bother to even obliquely mention Kashmir.
Kashmir and the Indian Supreme Court
It has now been more than two years that Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir was stripped of its special status. In an unprecedented move, the state was also split into two union territories.
My meeting with Mamata Banerjee, the tigress of West Bengal
Elections for 294 seats of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly are scheduled to be held from March 27 in eight phases. The elections will conclude on April 29 and results will most likely be announced on May 5.
FATF must encourage not punish Pakistan
As the next plenary of the Financial Action Task Force approaches this month, a fair question to ask is what Pakistan did, or didn't do, that warranted the FATF to greylist the country in 2018 for the second time.
Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir dispute
Addressing an election rally in Gilgit on Nov. 1 Prime Minister Imran Khan officially declared his government’s decision to give Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) the status of a province of Pakistan on a provisional basis.
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