GLOBAL AFFAIRS

The foreign policy is the cornerstone for all administrative practices on which key officials lay the groundwork for future policies to do strategic decisions. In the case of Trump, he is materializing the dream of Obama for the pivot in Asia that will anticipate policies for upcoming four years of his ruling. After the transition in governance, Trump in his first week of presidency did active diplomatic engagements with the South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese PM Shinzo Abe . Primarily, Trump is maneuvering over the counter-terrorism strategies and diplomatic ties with Russia. The rationale of Washington is to bolster regional allies by active engagement with Taiwan and by presence of US Navy’s fleet in the Pacific. Yet, China becomes the center of attention for the hawkish policies by Washington. At this critical juncture, US Pacific allies are fueling the apprehensions for less inclination towards Asia on the pretension for no nomination at senior ...

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin has been seen as influential leader to mesmerize the world’s leaders with his diplomatic skills by his words; by elucidating his agendas at diplomatic front, and by media coverage. To give currency to this idea, the appearance of Putin for the first time in the UN Annual opening of the UN General Assembly is laudable. His grandiose attempts are for the sake of resurgence of Russia on the global front by making attempts to fight against Islamic State. For this very purpose at the 70 th UN General Assembly session, he asked to form ‘grand coalition’ for the active engagement with pro-western allies on the land of Syria. Russia took vantage point on the re-alignment of global order by authoritarianism and real politik.       The US administration has shown some defensive impetus in this regard by conformance on the stance of ‘Assad must go’ in Syria for joint coalition against Islamic State. The Putin’s good i...

Kashmir is stigma on the face of humanity for brutality and cruelty. The freedom fighters are begging for life owing to averse and harsh malpractices adopted by Indian armed forces. The scores of civilians lost their lives in these skirmishes to get the right of ‘self determination’, yet there is not any silver lining to light the fire of freedom. These injustices and killings of civilians by pellet guns become norm of day for kashmiris. Various historical accounts gave currency to this fact that hardly any demonstrator left to meet with the destiny of funeral. The recent uprising is outcome of killing of Burhan Wani, freedom fighter, to raise the voice against the Indian aggression and oppression. The resentment of demonstrators against Indian tyranny and state terrorism is rampant these days and so do the gross violation of human rights on the soil of Kashmir valley. The jingoism of India pervades into the swaths of South Asia and west, alike. The situation has aggra...