“Bandh” Politics

Noting that Pakistan’s public debt remained very high, the interest bill being higher at current debt level than the country’s entire development budget, IMF President Christine Lagarde pointedly said that the perception of corruption in Pakistan was hurting its prospects to grow. Addressing our immediate political crisis inadvertently (or was it deliberate?), the IMF President…

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The Missing Panama Files

With around 215000 confidential documents about offshore entities and their secretive off-shore accounts becoming public, the “Panama Papers” became history’s biggest leak ever. Revealing financial and attorney-client information about scores of outright criminals, drug smugglers, etc. current and former world leaders alongwith their close relatives and/or friends, were linked to tax evasion, money-laundering, etc. Having…

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What We Won

The contemporary history of world politics is undeniably rooted in the intense US–USSR confrontation under the prolonged conflict of the Cold War. The global competition to dominate the international system by acquiring the status of global hegemon between capitalist and communist forces of Washington and Moscow shook the foundations of international global affairs. The period…

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Rare Footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq6E1luxLQQ This ten minutes clip of the Second World War captures an important chapter of the Indian army. War stories are usually focused on combat soldiers while support services though vital usually don’t get much attention. However, we all know that if supply corps does not send food in time, a hungry soldier cannot survive…

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