External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday tore into Pakistan, saying it is the epicentre of terrorism and that it needs to clean up its act and be good to its neighbours. Recalling Hillary Clinton's words, Jaishankar said, "A decade ago, Hillary Clinton, during her visit to Pakistan, said that if you keep snakes in your backyard, you can't expect …
The US State Department has approved the potential sale of F-16 aircraft sustainment and related equipment to Pakistan in a deal valued at up to $450 million. “Pakistan is an important counterterrorism partner, and as part of longstanding policy, the United States provides life cycle maintenance and sustainment packages for US-origin platforms,” a State Department spokesperson said. The proposed sale …
On September 11, 2001, four planes were hijacked and crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C., and into a field in rural Pennsylvania. We’ll have plenty on the tragic end of the U.S. war in Afghanistan later in this issue, but as Sean Roberts writes, the GWOT had …
The Army's northern commander Lt Gen Y K Joshi on Saturday said the agreement between India and Pakistan to strictly adhere to the ceasefire pact along the Line of Control would have no bearing on the counter-terrorism operations in Jammu and Kashmir. He said the northern command, which looks after the security of the twin union territories of Jammu and …
