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[ad_1] CNN — Here is a take a look at the lifetime of Narendra Modi, prime minister of India. Birth date: September 17, 1950 Birth place: Vadnagar, Gujarat, India Birth identify: Narendra Damodardas Modi Father: Damodardas Modi Mother: Hiraba “Heeraben” Modi Marriage: Jashodaben (Chimanlal) Modi (1968-present, separated) Education: Delhi University, B.A., 1978; Gujarat University, M.A., 1983 Religion: Hindu Left dwelling in his late teenagers to journey India, keep in ashrams and wander the Himalayas. First prime minister born in unbiased India. October 3, 1972 - Joins the Hindu nationalist group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. June 1975 - Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposes a interval of emergency as she faces a political disaster. Civil liberties are restricted, media is censored, and protesters are arrested. Modi turns into concerned within the motion to revive these rights. 1987 - Enters mainstream politics and joins the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as group secretary of the Gujarat unit in western India. October 3, 1995 - Becomes the nationwide secretary of the BJP. January 5, 1998 - Is promoted to grow to be the nationwide basic secretary of BJP. October 2001 - Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee names Modi chief minister of Gujarat. February 2002 - At least 58 individuals die in a hearth on board a prepare carrying Hindu pilgrims. The prepare had stopped briefly at a station in Gujarat the place the native inhabitants was majority-Muslim. The Gujarat Government would later discover that the hearth was deliberately set, a part of a pre-planned assault, and that these accountable had been Muslim. Riots erupt within the days following the hearth and Modi is accused of condoning the violent protests that kill roughly 1,000 individuals, principally Muslims. 2005 - The United States declines to difficulty a diplomatic visa to Modi for his suspected position within the 2002 riots. June 2013 - Modi is chosen because the BJP chief and campaigns for the 2014 basic elections. May 20, 2014 - The BJP wins the overall election and Modi is appointed prime minister. May 26, 2014 - Takes the oath of workplace as prime minister. September 27-30, 2014 - Modi makes his first visit to the United States as prime minister and meets with President Barack Obama. December 8, 2014 - Modi wins a Time magazine reader’s poll individual of the yr. January 25-27, 2015 - Obama turns into the primary sitting US president to go to India twice. During the three-day go to, Obama and Modi negotiate a civil nuclear deal, a 10-year protection cooperation settlement between the 2 nations. December 25, 2015 - Modi visits Pakistan and meets with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. It is the primary time an Indian prime minister has visited Pakistan in almost 12 years. June 8, 2016 - Addressing a joint session of the US Congress, Modi speaks concerning the persevering with progress of US-India relations. June 26, 2017 - Meets with US President Donald Trump for the primary time at the White House. July 4, 2017 - Becomes the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Israel, arriving in Tel Aviv as a part of a three-day go to to mark 25 years of diplomatic relations between India and Israel. August 15, 2018 - During his Independence Day speech to the nation, Modi announces India will launch its first manned mission to space by 2022. May 23, 2019 - In a landslide victory, the BJP wins 303 seats within the basic election. May 30, 2019 - Sworn in for a second term as India’s prime minister. August 5, 2019 - Tensions between India and Pakistan increase after Modi broadcasts that India will revoke a constitutional provision giving the state of Jammu and Kashmir autonomy to set its personal legal guidelines. In the wake of the announcement, widespread communications blackouts are reported within the Muslim-majority area. August 8, 2019 - Modi delivers a televised address wherein he claims that revoking Kashmir’s autonomous standing will promote stability, cut back corruption and increase the economic system.

Pakistan’s overseas minister says the nation will stay vigilant, however no army choices are being thought of. The United Nations points an announcement calling on each nations to resolve the difficulty peacefully while respecting human rights in the region. December 11, 2019 - Parliament passes a controversial bill that may fast-track citizenship for spiritual minorities together with Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians, from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Opposition events say the invoice is unconstitutional because it bases citizenship on an individual’s faith and would additional marginalize India’s Muslim group. Modi expresses his support for the measure via Twitter, saying, “This Bill will alleviate the suffering of many who faced persecution for years.” December 19, 2019 - Deadly protests erupt in at least 15 cities in opposition to the citizenship regulation, regardless of bans on public gatherings in a number of areas. At least three individuals have died amid the violence, as 1000's participated in demonstrations. December 22, 2019 - Modi delivers a speech railing against the protests. “You have seen how these people are pushing their own interests,” he says. “The statements given, the false videos, inciting, people sitting at a high level have committed the crime of spreading confusion and fire by putting it on social media.” September 3, 2020 - Modi’s Twitter account appears to have been hacked, prompting an investigation by the social media company. The account, which has 2.5 million followers, is certainly one of a handful of verified accounts linked to the prime minister. The obvious hack comes greater than a month after an enormous hack that resulted in among the most outstanding accounts on the platform — together with these tied to Obama, Joe Biden and Elon Musk — being compromised. July 7, 2021 - Modi fires 12 members of his cabinet, including the federal ministers for health and law, as he faces fierce criticism over the federal government’s alleged mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic. November 19, 2021 - Modi says he would repeal three contentious agricultural laws that sparked greater than a year of protests, in a uncommon obvious climb down forward of pivotal state elections. December 12, 2021 - Modi’s Twitter handle was “very briefly compromised,” his workplace says, when a tweet was despatched from the Indian Prime Minister’s account saying his nation had adopted Bitcoin and can be distributing the cryptocurrency. [ad_2]

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Who is Imran Khan ?

As Pakistan goes to vote Wednesday, cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has emerged as the front-runner for the prime ministerial office of the country. A recently held public opinion survey put Khan’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) slightly ahead of his main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) led by Nawaz Sharif’s brother Shahbaz Sharif. The ouster and conviction of Nawaz Sharif in a graft case has helped Khan’s political fortunes.

Born in 1952 in Lahore, Khan is known to be one of the most popular cricket players of his time. Khan, the “Captain” who led Pakistan to its first World Cup victory in 1992 has always been in the limelight due to his sports career, brazen comments and controversial private life. Post his retirement from cricket, Khan founded his political party Khan Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in 1996. However, his immense popularity on the field did not immediately transfer into his political career. Until 2003, his party had only one seat in the Parliament. In the present elections, Khan is contesting five seats in the provinces of Punjab, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Islamabad Capital Territory.

Imran Khan, the politician

Said to enjoy the support of Pakistani Army, media reports in Pakistan have often suggested that the military is working to put Khan at the helm of power. Khan has often signalled his willingness to work with the army. “It is the Pakistan Army and not an enemy army,” he said in a New York Times interview in May. “I will carry the army with me.” However, while the army might find Khan’s charismatic personality useful, they do not trust him entirely due to his unpredictability. Imran Khan, often accused of lacking a coherent political philosophy, has openly supported the idea of opening channels of dialogue with the Taliban. Khan, who described the Taliban’s fight in Afghanistan as a holy war also earned the name of “Taliban Khan” from his opponents.

Khan has designed his campaign for 2018 elections around the theme of “New Pakistan.” He has promised better schools, better hospitals, better jobs and infrastructure in the country. Terming corruption as the enemy of Pakistan, Khan has also vowed to wipe it off the country. He has also promised wide-ranging reforms in tax collection. Internal peace finds a prominent place in his manifesto and he has proposed to act against the hate speech and violence towards minorities. Khan, who has also proposed to improve Pakistan’s relation with foreign countries, has often expressed his strong desire to resolve the Kashmir issue. His personal views on India have veered from “why should we not want friendly ties with India?” to “cut trade ties with India”.

Imran Khan and controversies

Khan has often come under the scanner for his “colourful private life.” His playboy image of the past was revived days ahead of the elections, by his former wife Reham Khan. The book portrays Khan as a man who led “a bizarre life” of “sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll”. Reham Khan, also claims that the 65-year-old cannot read the Quran, believes in black magic, and had confessed that he has “some” illegitimate Indian children. From Imran’s eating habits to his purported sexuality, the self-published book stops at nothing.

Khan was in the news for his marriage to his spiritual guide Bushra Maneka. This was Khan’s third marriage. His previous two marriages ended in divorce. His first marriage was with Jemima Goldsmith, daughter of a British billionaire, in 1995, which lasted nine years. Khan has two sons from her. His second marriage with TV anchor Reham Khan in 2015 ended after a brief 10 months. He also sparked a row recently when he called Nawaz Sharif’s supporters “donkeys.” An animal charity later reported that PTI supporters had beaten one of the animals close to death. The Pakistan EC has warned Khan against using “inappropriate language” for his political rivals.

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PAKISTAN

Prime Minister Imran Khan Promised ‘New Pakistan’ But Members of His Inner Circle Secretly Moved Millions Offshore

Leak shows a key ally tried to bypass tax authorities and political and military elites bought luxury apartments and set up shell companies.

— By Margot Gibbs and Malia Politzer

— Image: Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images

— October 3, 2021

Imran Khan at an anti-government rally in Lahore in 2016, shortly after the Panama Papers caused uproar in Pakistan.

In 2018, Imran Khan, the Pakistani cricketing legend turned anti-corruption campaigner finally broke through.

After more than two decades in the political wilderness, the charismatic Oxford-educated media star seized on the publication of the Panama Papers, the 2016 journalistic exposé that revealed the offshore secrets of the global elite. Among the findings: The children of Pakistan’s sitting prime minister secretly owned a string of luxury London apartments.

Riding a wave of public outrage, Khan led protests around the country and a sit-in at the residence of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, demanding that he step down. With the support of the military establishment, Khan propelled his reformist party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), or Pakistan Movement for Justice, past its rivals in the 2018 national elections and propelled himself into the prime minister’s office in Islamabad.

In a televised victory speech, Khan promised a new era.

“We will establish supremacy of the law,” he said. “Whoever violates the law, we will act against them. Our state institutions will be so strong that they will stop corruption. Accountability will start with me, then my ministers, and then it will go from there.”

Now leaked documents reveal that key members of Khan’s inner circle, including cabinet ministers, their families and major financial backers have secretly owned an array of companies and trusts holding millions of dollars of hidden wealth. Military leaders have been implicated as well. The documents contain no suggestion that Khan himself owns offshore companies.

Among those whose holdings have been exposed are Khan’s finance minister, Shaukat Fayaz Ahmed Tarin, and his family, and the son of Khan’s former adviser for finance and revenue, Waqar Masood Khan. The records also reveal the offshore dealings of a top PTI donor, Arif Naqvi, who is facing fraud charges in the United States.

Pakistan’s Finance Minister Shaukat Fayaz Ahmed Tarin gestures during a press conference. Image: Farooq Naeem/AFP via Getty Images

The files show how Chaudhry Moonis Elahi, a key political ally of Imran Khan’s, planned to put the proceeds from an allegedly corrupt business deal into a secret trust, concealing them from Pakistan’s tax authorities. Elahi did not respond to ICIJ’s repeated requests for comment. Today, a family spokesman told ICIJ’s media partners that, “due to political victimisation misleading interpretations and data have been circulated in files for nefarious reasons.” He added that the family’s assets “are declared as per applicable law”.

In one of several offshore holdings involving military leaders and their families, a luxury London apartment was transferred from the son of a famous Indian movie director to the wife of a three-star general. The general told ICIJ the property purchase was disclosed and proper; his wife didn’t reply.

The revelations are part of the Pandora Papers, a new global investigation into the shadowy offshore financial system that allows multinational corporations, the rich, famous and powerful to avoid taxes and otherwise shield their wealth. The probe is based on more than 11.9 million confidential files from 14 offshore services firms leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and shared with 150 news organizations around the world.

The window into the personal finances of individual Pakistani generals is especially rare and provides a glimpse at how top military officers – known in Pakistan as “The Establishment” – use offshore to quietly enrich themselves while maintaining, until now, the military’s image as a bulwark against civilian corruption.

In the 48 hours leading up to the publication of the Pandora Papers, a Pakistani television station, ARY-News, reported that, “the owner of two offshore companies registered at a similar address as of Prime Minister Imran Khan has revealed that they were registered by him on a different address and denied any role of the premier in this regard.” The story also attributed the information to “a database of the offshore companies.”

ARY-News is not an ICIJ partner and doesn’t have access to ICIJ data.

In its reporting prior to publication, ICIJ had asked Khan about the same companies. A Khan spokesman told ICIJ that the prime minister had no link to either, adding that two houses in the same neighborhood share an address, providing a map as evidence.

The spokesman also told ARY-News that Khan denied any connection to the companies, adding that their owner “never met Imran Khan face to face and it may however be possible that they had attended an extended family function.”

The Pandora Papers investigation exposes civilian government and military leaders who have been hiding vast amounts of wealth in a country plagued by widespread poverty and tax avoidance.

The newly leaked records reveal the use of offshore services by Pakistan’s elites that rivals the findings of the Panama Papers, which led to Sharif’s downfall and helped propel Imran Khan to power three years ago.

Today, a few hours before the Pandora Papers’ publication, Khan’s spokesperson told a press conference that the prime minister, “has no offshore company but if any of his ministers [or] advisers have it will be their individual acts and they will have to be held accountable.”

An Unaccountable Military Elite

Khan’s anti-corruption rhetoric resonated in Pakistan, where the military has pointed to what it calls the corruption and ineptitude of civilian politicians to justify overthrowing democratically elected governments three times since the country’s founding in 1947.

Military autocracies have ruled Pakistan for almost half the country’s history. They have been bolstered by support from the U.S and NATO countries, which have relied on Pakistan’s support as a bulwark against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and, later, the Taliban.

The military also claims legitimacy as the nation’s protector against longtime adversary and nuclear rival India.

Over the decades, the military and its secretive spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, have repeatedly stoked anti-India animus, even at the cost of angering Pakistan’s Western allies.

Foreign policy analysts have accused the military of playing a double game, receiving billions of dollars in U.S military support while continuing to work with members of the Afghan Taliban.

One legacy of colonial rule is the military’s wealth. The military’s combined business holdings amount to Pakistan’s largest conglomerate, and it controls 12% of the country’s land. Many of the landholdings are owned by current or former senior leaders.

The Pandora Papers reveal that in 2007, the wife of Gen. Shafaat Ullah Shah, then one of Pakistan’s leading generals and a former aide to President Pervez Musharraf, acquired a $1.2 million apartment in London through a discreet offshore transaction.

The property was transferred to Gen. Shah’s wife by an offshore company owned by Akbar Asif, a wealthy businessman who has opened restaurants in London and Dubai. Asif is the son of the Indian film director K Asif. The younger Asif once met with Musharraf at London’s Dorchester Hotel to ask for an exception to Pakistan’s 40-year ban on Indian films to allow the release there of one of his father’s most acclaimed movies. Musharraf granted the exception and later lifted the ban.

The leaked documents show that Asif has owned a multimillion-dollar property portfolio through a web of offshore companies.

One of those companies, called Talah Ltd. and registered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), was used to transfer the London apartment to Shafaat Shah’s wife. Talah bought an apartment near the Canary Wharf financial district in 2006. The next year, Asif transferred ownership of the company to Fariha Shah.

Asif’s sister, Heena Kausar, is the widow of Iqbal Mirchi, a senior figure in a leading organised crime group, D-company. Mirchi was at the time under sanction as a drug trafficker by the U.S. Before his death in 2013, Mirchi was one of India’s most wanted men.

Gen. Shah told ICIJ that the purchase of the London apartment had been made through a former army colleague then acting as a consultant to London real estate firms, not through any personal connection to Asif. Gen. Shah said the flat “was named” to his wife because “I already had properties in my name while she did not have any and to balance tax deductions.”

Shah said that his wife has never met Asif and that he met him just once, while an aide to Musharaff, when Asif briefly lobbied the president for his father’s film “in the corridors of Dorchester Hotel when he had accompanied the hairstylist, who had come to cut Mrs Musharraf’s hair.”

Insights into the private wealth of top military officers and their families are exceedingly rare; journalists who have written about the military within Pakistan have been jailed, tortured and killed.

The Pandora Papers also reveal that Raja Nadir Pervez, a retired army lieutenant colonel and former government minister, owned International Finance & Equipment Ltd, a BVI-registered company. In the leaked files, the firm is involved in machinery and related businesses in India, Thailand, Russia and China. Records show that in 2003, Pervez transferred his shares in the company to a trust that controls several offshore companies.

One of the trust’s beneficiaries is a British arms dealer. According to U.K. court documents, one of the trust’s other companies has helped broker arms sales from Belgian manufacturer FN Herstal SA to Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., a state-owned Indian defense company.

While he owned International Finance & Equipment, Pervez also held several high-level positions in Pakistan’s government. He was elected to the National Assembly in 1985 and later joined Khan’s party. Pervez did not respond to reporters’ questions.

Another influential former military leader who shows up in the leaked documents is Maj. Gen. Nusrat Naeem, the ISI’s onetime director general of counterintelligence. He owned a BVI company, Afghan Oil & Gas Ltd, that was registered in 2009, shortly after his retirement. He said that the company had been set up by a friend and that he didn’t use it for any financial transactions.

Islamabad police later charged Naeem with fraud related to the attempted purchase of a steel mill for $1.7 million. The case was dropped.

The Pandora Papers also bring to light the notable offshore holdings of close relatives of three senior military figures.

Umar and Ahad Khattak, sons of the former head of Pakistan’s air force, Abbas Khattak, in 2010 registered a BVI company to invest what documents call “family business earnings” in stocks, bonds, mutual funds and real estate.

The Khattaks did not respond to reporters’ questions.

In an example involving intergenerational wealth transfer, Shahnaz Sajjad Ahmad inherited a fortune from her father, a retired lieutenant general, through an offshore trust that owns two London apartments, purchased in 1997 and 2011 in Knightsbridge, a short walk from Harrods. She, in turn, set up a trust for her daughters in 2003 in Guernsey, a tax haven in the English Channel. Her father was a favorite of Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan, the country’s first military dictator (1958-1969). After her father retired from the army, he founded one of Pakistan’s biggest business conglomerates. Ayub Khan’s son later married into the family and sits on the boards of several of the group’s businesses.

Shahnaz did not respond to ICIJ’s requests for comment.

Taken together, the findings offer a portrait of an unaccountable military elite with extensive personal and family offshore holdings.

���A Defining Moment’

As Pakistan’s ultimate political arbiter, the military would eventually test Imran Khan’s reformist ideals.

Born in 1952, Khan was the son of a Lahore civil engineer, and he enjoyed the privileges of Pakistan’s insular, and insulated, upper class. When the electricity failed, elites could turn on generators. If hospitals were substandard, they flew abroad for care.

“I was from that privileged class that was not affected by the general deterioration in the country,” Khan wrote in his 2011 autobiography, “Pakistan: A Personal History”.

Khan’s elite boarding school, Aitchison College, was named for the colonial administrator who founded it. Lessons were in English; boys caught speaking Urdu during school hours were fined.

The education system replicated colonial values, Khan wrote, teaching elites that they should “look upon the masses with contempt” and that “the natives were not to be trusted.”

As a young man, he befriended future leaders of Pakistan, meeting Nawaz Sharif at a cricket club, stopping by for Sunday cheese and canape parties at the Oxford University lodgings of another future Pakistani prime minister, Benazir Bhutto. He also developed a reputation as a playboy and a denizen of London’s nightclubs.

Khan played his first cricket match for Pakistan’s national team in 1971, when he was just 18, became captain at the age of 29 and, 10 years later, led the team to victory in the 1992 World Cup.

In a country passionate about cricket, Khan’s athletic feats made him a national hero – and drew the attention of politicians hoping to capitalize on his popularity. Two of the Pakistan’s military leaders – Generals Musharraf and Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq – and Sharif, the three-time civilian prime minister, invited him to join their governments. He refused them all, later declaring in his autobiography that each administration was either incompetent or corrupt.

A Pakistani driver looks on as a poster of cricketer-turned-politician, Imran Khan, is seen on his rickshaw in Rawalpindi, ahead of the 2018 general elections. Image: Farooq Naeem/AFP via Getty Images

He wrote that he entered politics after the experience of building a cancer hospital in his mother’s memory in 1994 left him stunned both by the generosity of ordinary Pakistanis and the failings of their government: “I discovered how hard it was to achieve anything in Pakistan while also battling bureaucracy and corruption.”

In 1996, Khan founded the PTI party, vowing to root out corruption, address wealth inequality and break the hold of the country’s two political dynasties – those of the Bhutto and Sharif families – which he claimed ruled Pakistan like a “fiefdom.”

Among the early targets of Khan’s anti-corruption campaign was another powerful family, the Elahis, known in Pakistan as the Chaudhrys of Gujrat.

After Musharraf forcibly ousted Prime Minister Sharif in 1999, during his second term, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, a prominent political figure, organized the Pakistan Muslim League-Q to support the coup. The PML-Q, known for backing Pakistan’s military governments, remains closely aligned with the military.

Over the years Pakistan’s anti-corruption agencies have launched and dropped several investigations into his business dealings. Around 2002, Khan petitioned the national bank to investigate loans to Elahi’s company which had allegedly been written off. At one point he called him “the biggest dacoit in Punjab,” using an Urdu word for “bandit.”

Despite being a national hero and benefiting from well-funded campaigns powered by the enthusiastic support of Pakistanis abroad, Khan remained a political outsider, in part because he refused to make alliances with forces he called corrupt.

Middle-class and other reform-minded voters flocked to his 2013 campaign, waving cricket bats. And Khan gained a powerful ally: the military, then in a power struggle with both mainstream civilian factions. But the PTI gained just 35 of the 342 seats in the National Assembly that year.

Then Came The Panama Papers.

The revelations about then-Prime Minister Sharif and his family’s London real estate holdings, followed by the discovery that his oldest daughter forged documents in an attempt to cover up her ownership, played perfectly to Khan’s anti-corruption message and turbocharged his political fortunes.

“’The leaks are God-sent,” Khan said at the time. Taking stock of the impact on the country’s ruling elite a year later, he declared, “This is a defining moment in the history of Pakistan.”

Pakistan’s Supreme Court soon disqualified Sharif from office for falling short of constitutional requirements to be “truthful and trustworthy.” The ISI was involved in the investigation of Sharif. He was later sentenced to 10 years in prison on related corruption charges.

In the 2018 elections, Khan’s PTI secured a fourfold increase in National Assembly seats, bringing the party to the brink of power. Throngs of his supporters danced outside the party’s headquarters in Islamabad.

But Khan hadn’t won the outright majority and needed to form a government. Sharif and Bhutto’s parties, the target of years of his attacks, were not an option.

That left a coalition of smaller parties, led by the Pakistan Muslim League-Q, the Elahis’ party. Khan made the deal.

A Fateful Political Alliance

Since taking office, Khan has continued to deploy anti-corruption rhetoric and rail against elites who, he has said on Twitter, “come to power and plunder the country.”

But analysts say Khan has disappointed his reform-minded supporters and has become widely viewed as a figurehead. “He doesn’t have a problem with the military ruling the country while they pretend that he’s in charge,” Aqil Shah, a visiting academic at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,told ICIJ.

Khan’s spokesperson, Shabhaz Gill, told ICIJ that the “PTI believed in the separation of powers,” and the military came under the power of the executive branch of the state.

The Pandora Papers reveal that Khan has surrounded himself with people – cabinet ministers and their families, donors and other political allies – who have holdings hidden offshore.

Shaukat Tarin, Khan’s finance minister, and members of Tarin’s family, own four offshore companies. According to Tariq Fawad Malik, a financial consultant who handled the paperwork on the companies, they were set up as part of the Tarin family’s intended investment in a bank with a Saudi business. He said that, “as a mandatory prerequisite by [the] regulator, we engaged with the Central Bank of Pakistan to obtain their ’in-principle’ approval for the said strategic investment.” The deal didn’t proceed.

Tarin didn’t respond to ICIJ’s questions. In a statement issued the day of the Pandora Papers’ publication, Tarin said: “The off-shore companies mentioned were incorporated as part of the fund raising process for my Bank.”

Omer Bakhtyar, the brother of Khan’s minister for industries, Makhdum Khusro Bakhtyar, transferred a $1 million apartment in the Chelsea area of London to his elderly mother through an offshore company in 2018. The state anti-corruption agency has been investigating allegations that his family’s wealth inexplicably “ballooned” since Bhaktyar first became a minister in Pervez Musharaff’s government in 2004.

In a written statement to ICIJ, Makhdum Bakhtyar said that the anti-corruption agency’s investigation was founded on baseless allegations which had underestimated his family’s past wealth, and that it has so far not resulted in a formal complaint.

The son of Waqar Masood Khan, Khan’s chief adviser for finance and revenue between 2019 and 2020, co-owned a company based in the British Virgin Islands. Masood resigned in August amid a policy dispute. Khan told ICIJ that he did not know what his son’s company did. He said his son lived a modest life, and was not his financial dependent.

And Khan’s former minister for water resources, Faisal Vawda, set up an offshore company in 2012 to invest in U.K. properties, the Pandora Papers show. He resigned in March amid a controversy over his status as a dual U.S.-Pakistan national. Vawda told ICIJ that he has declared all worldwide assets held in his name to Pakistani tax authorities.

Gill, Khan’s spokesperson, said that Khan had passed an executive order requiring unelected members of his cabinet to declare their assets, in addition to the asset disclosures already required of members of the National Assembly under Pakistani law.

Khan’s financial backers are also prominent in the files.

Naqvi, the financier and major donor to Khan’s 2013 campaign, owned several offshore companies. The files show that in 2017, Naqvi transferred ownership of U.K. holdings – three luxury apartments, his country estate and a property in London’s suburbs – into an offshore trust operated by Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank declined to respond to ICIJ’s concerning the beneficiaries of the trust.

The next year, he presided over the spectacular collapse of his Dubai-based private equity firm, Abraaj Group.

U.S prosecutors charged Naqvi with engineering a $400 million fraud against Abraaj investors and this year persuaded a court to allow his extradition from the U.K. Naqvi has denied wrongdoing.

Tariq Shafi, a leading businessman and another PTI donor, held $215 million through offshore companies, the records show.

Neither Shafi nor Naqvi responded to ICIJ’s questions.

The documents offer an unusually detailed look at how a top political figure attempted to hide proceeds from an alleged misuse of public funds with the help of an elite offshore service provider.

The politician is Moonis Elahi, whose father founded the Pakistan Muslim League-Q, the party holding Khan’s fragile coalition together.

‘Several Corrupt Land Development Projects’

Scandals linked to the Elahi family have become a regular feature of Pakistani politics over the years, but have rarely resulted in legal consequences.

In 2007, for instance, authorities found that the Bank of Punjab, owned by the Elahi-led provincial government, had made a reported $608 million in unsecured loans, many to companies owned by the bank’s directors or people with political connections. When the loans went bad, the provincial government ultimately paid to bail out the bank.

In January 2016, Moonis Elahi, then a member of Punjab’s provincial legislature, met with officials at Asiaciti Trust, a financial services provider that specializes in offshore wealth management. Records show that Elahi told Asiaciti staff that he wanted to invest money from the 2007 sale of land owned by Phalia Sugar Mills, an Elahi family business.

The records show that Asiaciti officials asked Elahi about his past legal problems. He provided them with a court document clearing him of fraud charges unrelated to the Bank of Punjab scandal.

After the meeting, documents show, Asiaciti designated Elahi as a “politically exposed person” or PEP — a legal term denoting a corruption risk related to a client’s status as a public official.

Singapore’s anti-money-laundering laws require that management at professional firms like Asiaciti approve any business done with PEPs. The firms also have to establish the source of a PEP’s wealth and of the specific funds to be invested, and they have to take other steps to guard against money laundering.

Asiaciti commissioned Thomson Reuters Risk Management Solutions,a unit of the financial information giant, to conduct an “enhanced due diligence” check.

Thomson Reuters produced a 19-page report detailing allegations of Elahi’s involvement in “several corrupt land development projects,” including that he set up a fake company, fraudulently obtained loans and sold land at inflated prices to government agencies.

The report noted that the Bank of Punjab had filed a complaint with Pakistan’s anti-corruption agency against the Elahi family, alleging that under the “influence” of Moonis Elahi’s father, the bank had made an illegal loan to the buyer of the family’s Phalia Sugar Mills property.

On Feb. 15, 2016, records show, Asiaciti accepted Moonis Elahi as a client, despite the report’s findings.

Elahi provided Asiaciti with the contract from the $33.7 million Phalia Sugar Mills sale as the source of the funds he wanted to invest, records show. In other words, Elahi asked Asiaciti to invest the proceeds of an allegedly corrupt loan obtained from a state-owned bank.

The records don’t say whether Asiaciti asked about the Bank of Punjab’s allegations. The bank did not respond to questions from ICIJ’s partner, The Guardian, about the loan, including what became of its complaint the anti corruption agency, citing client confidentiality.

A spokesperson for Asiaciti said that the firm maintained a strong compliance program, and that their offices have all passed audits for anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing practices.

“However, no compliance program is infallible – and when an issue is identified, we take necessary steps with regard to the client engagement and make the appropriate notifications to regulatory agencies,” the spokesperson said.

They said that ICIJ’s reporting was based on incomplete information but declined to elaborate.

Asiaciti registered a trust in low-tax Singapore and proposed to use part of the proceeds of the Phalia Sugar deal to invest in another Punjab sugar company, RYK Mills, in which Elahi already held a stake.

The plan called for a trust to hold an investment vehicle, funded by the “sale of a sugar mill,” that would own two properties in the U.K.

But, records show, when Asiaciti advised Elahi of its legal obligation to share his “financial information with the relevant tax authorities” – in this case, Pakistan’s Federal Board of Revenue – he balked.

Records show that Asiaciti received a phone call from Elahi. He wanted to scrap the trust.

“Moonis,” an Asiaciti manager wrote in a memo, “has concerns about the … reporting requirements.”

According to the memo, Elahi preferred to hold the investments in a U.K.-registered trust in his wife’s name; as a U.K. tax resident, she would not be subject to the same disclosure requirements.

“It appears that Moonis has no connection” to that trust, the memo says.

Less than a month after the phone call, Asiaciti prepared the paperwork to terminate Elahi’s trust. The following year, public records show, Elahi’s wife used a U.K. shell company to transfer an $8.2 million London apartment overlooking the River Thames to a woman named Mahrukh Jahangir, who then filed a U.K. Land Registry document generally used by joint owners and trustees. The transfer was not for “money or anything of monetary value,” according to public records.

A woman with the same name as Jahangir appears as a 9.4% shareholder in the RYK Mills – the business targeted as an investment in Elahi’s talks with Asiaciti. ICIJ tried to contact Jahangir for comment but did not receive a response.

Neither Elahi nor his wife disclosed ownership of the apartment or RYK assets in their official declaration of interests from 2017 as part of his candidacy to become a member of the National Assembly.

The Elahi family have ignored multiple attempts to seek comment concerning the allegations concerning the Phalia Mills sale, Moonis Elahi’s dealings with Asiaciti, or the U.K. based trust he intended to set up.

A New Minister

In April, Pakistan’s Federal Investigations Agency announced a criminal probe into price fixing in the powerful sugar industry, naming RYK Sugar Mills among the companies allegedly involved.

The industry dominates the valuable agricultural land of Punjab and is one of the biggest water users in one of the most water-stressed countries in the world. It is also among the world’s largest producers of sugarcane and uses enough water each year to fill Australia’s Sydney Harbour more than 45 times.

On Twitter, Elahi acknowledged that he “indirectly” held shares in RYK Mills, though he wasn’t involved in the company’s management.

Responding to news of the criminal probe, Khan, in a speech, called out the “sugar mafia,” which he characterized as a “powerful elite” that set itself above the rule of law and frequently sought to “blackmail the government.”

In June, Khan announced a new appointment to his cabinet: He named Moonis Elahi minister for water resources.

Additional reporting: David Conn, Shah Meer Baloch

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Politics of bad language | The Indian Express

Written by Khaled Ahmed | Up to date: November 7, 2020 4:49:57 am

Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif. (File/Reuters)

The cost of “sedition” turns out to be useful when the state leans on half-a-dozen sections of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and arrests its political opponents, thus equating the correct of criticism underneath democracy to treason. It’s blatant however the regulation is there — so why not use it to silence the correct to criticism underneath democracy? Any individual in Shahdara, Lahore, accused Prime Minister Imran Khan’s arch-opponent Nawaz Sharif of “utilizing legal speeches from London on the digital and social media” throughout the All Events Convention, and filed an FIR on the native police station.

To clinch the argument, the plaintiff added that UK-based Sharif, in his speeches, had supported “the insurance policies of India”. He was buttressed by Khan’s “info advisers” saying “Indians are laughing at us” due to Nawaz Sharif’s treasonous allegations. So as to add extra hearth, the FIR accused Sharif and his partymen of defaming Pakistan’s excessive courts and the armed forces “in entrance of the worldwide neighborhood”. For good measure, he added the names of 40 of Nawaz Sharif’s get together in his plaint, thus exposing them to the punishment of “loss of life or lifetime imprisonment” underneath the Excessive Treason (Punishment) Act, 1973.

The person who introduced the fees was Badar Rasheed. After photos of him appeared along with Punjab Governor Muhammad Sarwar, it grew to become recognized that he was president of PTI’s youth wing. Prime Minister Khan “disapproved” of the “treason case” and his partymen thereafter started to dissociate the get together from Rasheed. Legal professionals got here on TV denouncing the regulation itself, saying it was a doubtful legacy of British Raj that Pakistan and India had retained to punish political opponents.

The British had really made the regulation to beat down Indian resistance to the Raj. Well-known essayist Lord Macaulay wrote up the anti-sedition regulation in 1834, which was to turn into part of the Indian Penal Code in 1860 and the Felony Process Code in 1861. Within the following century, Indians started being rounded up and thrown in jail for making “seditious” speeches. India’s “freedom fighters”, at the moment part of the pantheon of nationalism, started to be rounded up underneath this regulation. Mockingly, India and Pakistan selected to retain the regulation after Independence in 1947. Regardless of many amendments, the core of the IPC, 1860, remains to be within the statute books of Pakistan.

The Indian freedom fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak was most likely probably the most defiant of Indian leaders preventing the Raj. In 1916, he was jailed underneath the sedition regulation however was efficiently defended in court docket by the person who later grew to become the founding father of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah. “Tilak had wished to battle the case with a political spin, however Jinnah insisted that the defence proceed on authorized grounds alone”. In response to an Indian author, “Jinnah additionally facilitated Tilak’s re-entry into the Congress Occasion and have become his associate within the signing of the historic Lucknow Pact the identical yr.”

Pakistan goes by a interval of “verbal degradation”. Politicians for and in opposition to the federal government make use of a language usually described by themselves as gali-galoch. Khan was all the time recognized to be tough with phrases whereas describing the corruption of rulers of Pakistan, and his diatribes normally ended with pledges of exemplary punishment. This “vituperation” has turn into a part of his political type, and he hires folks within the “info division” gifted with this particular experience of abuse. The result’s stunning: Each authorities and opposition have degraded themselves as communicators to the extent of employed thugs.

The harm to political communication has not been realised in Pakistan as these for and in opposition to the federal government now take delight in having specialised in low expletives. This contagion of the tongue has unfold downwards into the inhabitants the place partisans serve one another with tongue-lashings which might be usually unprintable. Pondering of the background to this verbal degradation, one has to think about the “spiritual rage” that has dominated the Muslim world at residence and overseas. There isn’t a doubt that “true Muslims” who defend Islam usually use dangerous language as a method of excommunication. You placed on a tantrum and also you castigate. It’s a merciless irony that rage must be related to faith in India and Pakistan.

The author is consulting editor, Newsweek Pakistan

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ہندوؤں کو ابھی تک 100 سال بھی نہیں ہوئے اور یہ مسلمانوں کو ختم کرنے کی بات کرتے ہیں

غوری سلطنت👈

1 = 1193 محمد غوری 2 = 1206 قطب الدین ایبک 3 = 1210 آرام شاہ 4 = 1211 التتمش 5 = 1236 ركن الدين فیروز شاہ 6 = 1236 رضیہ سلطان 7 = 1240 معیزالدین بہرام شاہ 8 = 1242 الہ دين مسعود شاہ 9 = 1246 ناصرالدين محمود 10 = 1266 غیاث الدین بلبن 11 = 1286 رنگ كھشرو 12 = 1287 مذدن كےكباد 13 = 1290 شمس الدین كےمرس غوری سلطنت اختتام (دور حکومت -97 سال تقریبا)

 خلجي سلطنت👈

1 = 1290 جلال الدین فیروز خلجی 2 = 1292 الہ دین خلجی 4 = 1316 شھاب الدین عمر شاہ 5 = 1316 قطب الدین مبارک شاہ 6 = 1320 ناصر الدین خسرو شاہ خلجی سلطنت اختتام (دور حکومت -30 سال تقریبا)

👈 تغلق سلطنت

1 = 1320 غیاث الدین تغلق (اول) 2 = 1325 محمد بن تغلق (دوم) 3 = 1351 فیروز شاہ تغلق 4 = 1388 غیاث الدین تغلق (دوم) 5 = 1389 ابوبکر شاہ 6 = 1389 محمد تغلق (سوم) 7 = 1394 الیگزینڈر شاہ (اول) 8 = 1394 ناصر الدین شاہ (دوم) 9 = 1395 نصرت شاہ 10 = 1399 ناصرالدين محمدشاہ (دوم) 11 = 1413 دولت شاه تغلق سلطنت اختتام (دور حکومت -94 سال تقریبا)

 سعید سلطنت👈

1 = 1414 كھجر خان 2 = 1421 معیزالدین مبارک شاہ (دوم) 3 = 1434 محمد شاہ(چہارم) 4 = 1445 الہ دين عالم شاہ سعید سلطنت اختتام (دور حکومت -37 سال تقریبا)

 لودھی سلطنت👈

1 = 1451 بهلول لودھی 2 = 1489 الیگزینڈر لودھی (دوم) 3 = 1517 ابراہیم لودھی لودھی سلطنت اختتام (دور حکومت -75 سال تقریبا)

 مغلیہ سلطنت👈

1 = 1526 ظہیرالدين بابر 2 = 1530 ہمایوں مغلیہ سلطنت اختتام

 سوري سلطنت👈

1 = 1539 شیر شاہ سوری 2 = 1545 اسلام شاہ سوری 3 = 1552 محمود شاہ سوری 4 = 1553 ابراہیم سوری 5 = 1554 پرویز شاہ سوری 6 = 1554 مبارک خان سوری 7 = 1555 الیگزینڈر سوری سوری سلطنت اختتام (دور حکومت -16 سال تقریبا)

 مغلیہ سلطنت دوبارہ👈

1 = 1555 همايوں(دوبارہ گدی نشین) 2 = 1556 جلال الدين اکبر 3 = 1605 جہانگیر سلیم 4 = 1628 شاہ جہاں 5 = 1659 اورنگزیب 6 = 1707 شاہ عالم (اول) 7 = 1712 بهادر شاہ 8 = 1713 پھاروكھشير 9 = 1719 ريپھد راجت 10 = 1719 ريپھد دولا 11 = 1719 نےكشييار 12 = 1719 محمود شاہ 13 = 1748 احمد شاہ 14 = 1754 عالمگیر 15 = 1759 شاہ عالم 16 = 1806 اکبر شاہ 17 = 1837 بہادر شاہ ظفر مغلیہ سلطنت اختتام (دور حکومت -315 سال تقریبا)

 برطانوی راج👈

1 = 1858 لارڈ كینگ 2 = 1862 لارڈ جیمز بروس یلگن 3 = 1864 لارڈ جهن لورےنش 4 = 1869 لارڈ رچارڈ میو 5 = 1872 لارڈ نورتھبك 6 = 1876 لارڈ ایڈورڈ لٹےن 7 = 1880 لارڈ جيورج ریپن 8 = 1884 لارڈ ڈفرین 9 = 1888 لارڈ هنني لےسڈون 10 = 1894 لارڈ وکٹر بروس یلگن 11 = 1899 لارڈ جيورج كرجھن 12 = 1905 لارڈ گلبرٹ منٹو 13 = 1910 لارڈ چارلس هارڈج 14 = 1916 لارڈ فریڈرک سےلمسپھورڈ 15 = 1921 لارڈ ركس ا��جےك رڈيگ 16 = 1926 لارڈ ایڈورڈ ارون 17 = 1931 لارڈ پھرمےن وےلگدن 18 = 1936 لارڈ اےلےكجد لنلتھگو 19 = 1943 لارڈ اركبالڈ وےوےل 20 = 1947 لارڈ ماؤنٹ بیٹن

برطانوی سامراج اختتام

🇮🇳بھارت، وزرائے اعظم🇮🇳

1 = 1947 جواہر لال نہرو 2 = 1964 گلزاری لال نندا 3 = 1964 لال بهادر شاستری 4 = 1966 گلزاری لال نندا 5 = 1966 اندرا گاندھی 6 = 1977 مرارجی ڈیسائی 7 = 1979 چرن سنگھ 8 = 1980 اندرا گاندھی 9 = 1984 راجیو گاندھی 10 = 1989 وشوناتھ پرتاپسه 11 = 1990 چندرشیکھر 12 = 1991 پيوينرسه راؤ 13 = 1992 اٹل بہاری واجپائی 14 = 1996 ےچڈيدےوگوڑا 15 = 1997 ايل كےگجرال 16 = 1998 اٹل بہاری واجپائی 17 = 2004 منموھن سنگھ 18 = 2014 نریندر مودی (جاری ھے)

764 سالوں تک مسلم بادشاھت ہونے کے باوجود بھی ہندو، ھندوستان میں باقی ہیں. مسلمان حکمرانوں نے کبھی بھی ان کے ساتھ ناروا سلوک نہیں کیا

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Pakistan’s most popular television channel is under attack

RANA JAWAD pinches the bridge of his nose. For much of the past month the director of news at Geo TV, Pakistan’s most popular channel, has marshalled his team of correspondents in the knowledge that broadcasts of their work have been mysteriously cut in most of the country. Post-it notes scrawled with frowny faces stick to his office window, requesting unpaid salaries. “We are already in the grave, with one hand sticking out,” he says.

The blackout began in late March. Many of Pakistan’s 73m-odd cable subscribers began to complain that they could no longer watch Geo’s offerings. Not only had Geo News disappeared, but so had sports and entertainment channels (upsetting fans of the Indian soap operas they carry). Viewership of the news fell by 70% in the fortnight to April 15th, according to official figures. That was not all. Newspapers owned by Jang group, the conglomerate behind Geo, went undelivered. At the company’s offices in Karachi, city officials cut the internet cable.

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These troubles stem from Geo’s bold editorial stance. In the 16 years since Pakistan granted licences for privately run television channels, Geo has carved out an identity as the one most willing to challenge the army. This is a lonely role. Almost all of its rivals parrot the military line. Many denounce Geo as an agent of India, an absurd accusation spurred by its campaign in 2010 for peace with the old enemy.

In 2014 unknown assailants shot Geo’s Hamid Mir, the country’s best-known journalist. (He survived.) Geo claimed that the head of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the country’s main spy agency, which is dominated by the army, had ordered the attack—a rare public denunciation of an institution usually referred to only in whispers. (ISI denies any involvement.) On that occasion, too, the channel was mysteriously dropped by cable companies.

The army has not made any public statement about the latest ban. In private, the top brass deny that they have ordered Geo off the air. Instead they blame the cable companies, such as Wateen and WorldCall. Yet in private, cable operators freely admit to military pressure. According to a report in the Hindu, an Indian newspaper, those who refused to cut Geo were taken to safe houses and threatened.

Executives at the channel worry that this time the ban aims to put it out of business for good. The army has been trying to silence “all dissent”, says Ayesha Siddiqa, a political commentator, ahead of elections to be held this summer. Geo particularly angers the top brass by favouring a former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, who says his ousting last year by the courts was also inspired by the army.

Geo is vulnerable partly because it lacks defenders. Officials from the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) have mostly kept silent. “Where is the prime minister?” rages Mr Jawad. When ministers speak at all, they blame the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), a body largely under their control, for failing to force cable operators to restore the channel. In fact, the PML-N, like the opposition, is keener to kowtow to the army than to defend media freedom.

In previous eras, the courts might have stepped in. But the judiciary and the army have been getting on well of late. When Geo’s ban was brought up in the Supreme Court on April 16th, Saqib Nisar, the chief justice, lambasted the channel, which has been starved of advertising revenue, for failing to pay salaries. He sneered, incorrectly, that Mr Mir, the journalist who was shot, drove a Mercedes. On the same day the High Court in Lahore was indulging in some censorship of its own: a new ruling orders PEMRA to ensure that no channel airs any “anti-judiciary speeches” by PML-N leaders.

Pakistan’s boisterous media were once a bright spot in its unsteady democracy, but the current assault has sapped journalists’ spirits. “I am thinking of doing a cookery show tonight,” sighs Murtaza Solangi, a talk-show host, since so much else is off the menu. Reporting on the Pushtun Protection Movement, a tribal protest group that criticises human-rights abuses by the army, has been banned in print and on TV. “It is worse now than under direct military rule,” adds Mr Solangi.

Geo’s rivals are propped up by their owners’ investments in other industries. The Jang group, in contrast, is involved only in the media. It required big loans to survive its previous period out of favour. On April 17th the service went back on air in parts of the country. But journalists say managers have instructed them to be less critical of the courts and army and harder on Mr Sharif. It remains to be seen if Geo, whose name sounds like the Urdu for “live”, will come back as its vigorous old self, or in a zombified form.

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Pakistan and India Relations - Solve basic problems first

The recent visit of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to India received wide media coverage in both countries. Both countries have agreed to ease visa restrictions, increase trade and resolve disputes through dialogues. But the reality is that without solving their long disputes between the two countries, cosmetic steps and media speeches will not bring any change to the region.

Despite growing poverty and unemployment, both the countries are spending huge amounts of money on arm purchases. Tension remains high at borders. In case of any terror activity in India, New Delhi accuses Pakistan of terrorism and Pakistan, on its turn, sees an Indian hand in unrest in North-West Frontier and Baluchistan provinces. Unfortunately, governments in the two countries are also not able to make any decisions which could go against the wishes of hardline elements of extremist parties.

Several key issues Kashmir, Siachen and construction of controversial dams also make things bad to worse. Pakistan has recently decided to move the International Court of Arbitration against the construction of the Kishanganga dam. A proxy war is also going on in Afghanistan between both countries. Until and unless both countries are able to solve basic issues like these, dreams of peace can’t come true in the region.

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Three Scenarios for India-Pakistan Relations under Modi 2.0

In a historic earn, Narendra Modi has received a different term in office as primary minister of India while his celebration, the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP), has won an even greater majority than it held before—a very first for an Indian political social gathering due to the fact 1984. The question of how Modi will tactic the India-Pakistan bilateral romantic relationship in his 2nd expression has turn into the chat of the city not only between analysts in India and Pakistan but also global watchers of South Asian politics. This piece lays out feasible eventualities for the long run of the India-Pakistan bilateral relationship in Modi’s second term and argues that improving ties concerning the two nuclear-armed neighbors is important to solve historical discord at a time when their hostile romance is serving as a stumbling block in harnessing the positive aspects of an economically-integrated South Asia and when global terror groups are threatening to destabilize the area.

Qualifications of Tensions

Through his prior time period, Modi sought to make improvements to ties with Pakistan by inviting then-Key Minister Nawaz Sharif to his 2014 swearing-in ceremony and visited Lahore for an unplanned take a look at on Xmas day 2015. But pursuing the January 2016 Pathankot attack, his administration cancelled prepared talks with Pakistan by linking dialogue to action from Islamabad in opposition to militants thought by New Delhi to be accountable for the assault. The bilateral marriage skilled a further strain soon after India conducted “surgical strikes” inside of Pakistan-administered Kashmir in response to an insurgent assault on its armed service set up in Uri.

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In February 2019, tensions escalated when India launched airstrikes in Pakistani territory versus alleged terrorist camps which New Delhi claimed were guiding the assault on an Indian paramilitary convoy in Pulwama previously that month. Pakistan retaliated by launching airstrikes in Indian-administered Kashmir, which was adopted by an air fight in which an Indian Air Force pilot, Abhinandan Varthaman, was captured by Pakistan. Soon after a number of days of uncertainty and hostility, tensions last but not least eased when Pakistan returned Varthman to India in a goodwill gesture.

The article-Pulwama acrimony was mirrored in the campaigning for India’s Lok Sabha election previously this yr. Like earlier election strategies, this a person much too was rife with direct and oblique anti-Pakistan rhetoric, with Modi likely as much as to declare that India is not afraid of Pakistan’s nuclear threats anymore and suggesting that India’s nuclear weapons are not just for present.

Nonetheless, submit-election, prospective customers for engagement search promising. The international ministers of each countries met informally during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of International Ministers’ meeting in Kazakhstan in May well. Furthermore, immediately after the Indian election benefits were introduced not too long ago, Key Minister Imran Khan telephoned Modi and congratulated him while expressing the desire to make improvements to the bilateral relationship. Modi was receptive, and reiterated his before recommendation of performing with each other to struggle poverty, develop further more cooperation, and empower an environment devoid of violence and terrorism. Also, Indian officials have a short while ago been quoted by Indian media outlets as acknowledging that Pakistan is taking significant action in opposition to anti-India insurgent outfits, which suggests that an opening for dialogue may perhaps quickly come about.

Fork in the Highway

The future 12 to 18 months will be vital for the India-Pakistan romance since, as latest heritage is testament, any new Indian governing administration generally undertakes good gestures in addressing the Kashmir dispute, which is the most important bone of contention concerning India and Pakistan, in the course of the initial number of months of its tenure.

Supplied the mutual hostility involving the two international locations, one particular of a few doable scenarios is very likely to direct the foreseeable future character of their bilateral marriage. Initial, 1 risk is that the position quo will remain intact with no critical engagement between the two international locations during Modi’s second term and violence remaining restricted to the Line of Manage (LoC). However, this situation would seem unlikely just after the collection of moves explained before, these as the telephone simply call concerning Khan and Modi, that propose a thaw in ties.

2nd, relations concerning the two nations around the world could more deteriorate. The probability of these a state of affairs will be better must the Modi administration go on to undertake policies considered as makes an attempt to isolate Pakistan. Previous examples of these include things like India’s non-engagement with Pakistan possibly at the bilateral or multilateral level because the Nationwide Stability Adviser-degree talks in December 2017, withdrawing the most-favored-nation status India had granted Pakistan, boycotting the SAARC summit in Pakistan in 2016, and linking sports activities with the political mother nature of the relationship.

The third situation is that the bilateral marriage could strengthen to a specified extent. This could just take lots of opportunity forms, which includes Pakistan having motion against anti-India insurgent outfits, the ending of proxy warfare and cross-LoC insurgent functions, equally international locations accommodating each individual other’s strategic interests in Afghanistan, and India joining the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. The likelihood of this kind of a scenario will mainly count on how critical the Pakistani and Indian governments are in enhancing bilateral relations. Also, the job of third parties like the United States and China will also factor into the materialization of these choices.

Pakistan’s crackdown on anti-India outfits could provide as a starting off stage for the resumption of the composite or comprehensive dialogue, which has been suspended due to the fact 2013, and likely, movement towards peace. In contrast to earlier crackdowns, the Imran Khan governing administration has taken sizeable motion versus banned outfits–local media reviews propose that for the initial time in extra than three a long time, the offices of Kashmiri insurgent corporations working in Pakistan-administered Kashmir have reportedly been sealed and prominent leaders of proscribed outfits have been arrested and their properties, which include seminaries and mosques, seized. This kind of ways have resulted in forcing the management of some of these outfits to go underground, and Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) has reportedly asked its cadres to prepare for “migration” and “a new wrestle.” These actions advise that Pakistan is critical about tackling proscribed outfits and this could persuade India to give talks a possibility.

Worries Ahead

The challenge for equally Modi and Khan will be to ensure that cooperation does not arise at the price of their strategic interests. For Modi, that signifies building a Pakistan policy that satisfies his ideal-wing Hindutva-centric foundation although also participating in talks with Islamabad. Equally, for Khan, the principal problem will be to retain Pakistan’s prolonged-standing posture on the Kashmir dispute when also cracking down on anti-India militant outfits working in Pakistan.

There are a number of ways in which both of those Modi and Khan can make improvements to the bilateral relationship without having appearing weak to their respective publics. Very first, flare ups on the LoC really should be averted. Pakistan claimed that India fully commited 1,140 ceasefire violations in 2017 though India claimed that Pakistan was responsible for 881 ceasefire violations the same calendar year. This sort of incidents have resulted in important human losses, each armed forces and civilian, on the two sides of the border. But, according to research conducted by Indian political scientist Happymon Jacob, ceasefire violations are not necessarily directed by the major political or navy leadership–they are fairly generally driven by “local armed forces components,” this kind of as development of new bunkers, “tests by firing” whenever new officers suppose command, and so forth. Thus, these incidents do not serve a strategic goal and can in some cases even set off crises between the two nations around the world. Averting them by adopting proposals such as regular conversation and conferences in between local commanders, coordinated patrolling, and other people outlined by many authorities would boost the LoC condition, serving as a major self-confidence-developing measure to transform the political nature of the romantic relationship.

Secondly, improvements by both of those India and Pakistan to the human security circumstance in Kashmir would go a lengthy way to demonstrating to the nearby populace that both equally sides genuinely intend to tackle their apprehensions. This could be achieved by New Delhi adopting a less militaristic approach in Indian-administered Kashmir, steering clear of human rights violations by Indian safety forces, and partaking with all the related stakeholders in Kashmir, which includes the Hurriyat. Even though Pakistan way too could address grievances in Pakistan-administered Kashmir discovered by the United Nations Superior Commissioner for Human Legal rights this sort of as clampdown on independence of speech and wrongful arrest.

At last, intelligence-sharing in between India and Pakistan concerning the movement of users connected with international terrorist groups like the Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and anti-India militant teams running in Pakistan could concurrently raise transparency and belief involving the two nations. Finally, casual conferences amongst Indian and Pakistani political management need to become the norm these kinds of that they could lead towards a structured dialogue method in the future.

In recognizing the earlier mentioned-mentioned proposals, Islamabad and Delhi would likely facial area several significant limitations, which includes stress from their armed forces, specifically pertaining to an intelligence-sharing framework. The prevalence of negative perceptions of the other in each international locations also suggests that domestic force from their respective publics will issue in.

Having said that, India and Pakistan will have to take into consideration that with international terror groups like IS and AQIS making inroads into South Asia, it is in equally their interests to strengthen their bilateral partnership. If the Indo–Pak romance continues to be broken, the security of the entire location continues to be at possibility. Also, the discord in between the two nations is stopping them from harnessing their fullest financial potential–their bilateral trade prospective is estimated to be $37 billion. For that reason, the mutual economic rewards will also final result in boosting intra-regional trade in South Asia, which remains one particular of the least economically built-in locations of the entire world.

Fahad Nabeel is a Senior Analysis Associate at the Centre for Strategic and Present-day Exploration in Islamabad, Pakistan. A edition of this piece at first appeared at South Asian Voices, a system for strategic assessment and debated hosted by the Stimson Centre.

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A Hindu nationalist ex pm of India dies. He was a proud Hindu who like Gandhi lived by Vedic value of oneness of all beings and Vasudaiv kutumbakkam in a dirty landscape of politics.

During his tenure as prime minister, India carried out the Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998. Vajpayee sought to improve diplomatic relations with Pakistan, travelling to Lahore by bus to meet with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. After the 1999 Kargil War with Pakistan, he sought to restore relations through engaging with President Pervez Musharraf, inviting him to India for a summit at Agra. He was conferred India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, by the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee in 2015.  India reacted to Vajpayee's death with grief and thousands of tributes poured in through social media platforms. Thousands of people payed their respects during his funeral procession. A seven-day state mourning was announced by the central government.

 Afghanistan: Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai was among several foreign dignitaries present at former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s funeral in New Delhi. He recalled that the departed leader was "the first to offer us civilian planes, Airbuses at the time we were starting out".

 Bangladesh: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed "deep shock" at the demise of former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and said it is a day of great sadness for the people of Bangladesh. Paying tribute to Vajpayee, Hasina termed him as "one of the most famous sons of India" and a highly respected person in Bangladesh.

 Bhutan: Bhutan king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck attended the funeral ceremony in New Delhi.

 Japan: Remembering Vajpayee's visit to Japan in 2001, the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe said, "On behalf of the Government and people of Japan, I would like to convey my sincerest condolences to the Government and people of India and the bereaved family. His Excellency Vajpayee visited Japan in 2001 as the then-Prime Minister and made significant contributions to the friendship between our two countries as a good friend of Japan. It is him who established the cornerstone of Japan-India relations today". Terming Vajpayee as an eminent leader of India, Abe added, "I pray from the bottom of my heart that his soul may rest in peace".

 Mauritius: On 17 August, the government of Mauritius announced that both Mauritian and Indian flags would fly at half mast in the honour of Vajpayee. During the World Hindi Conference in Mauritius, PM Pravind Jugnauth announced that the cyber tower towards which Vajpayee contributed to be set up in Mauritius would be henceforth named as Atal Bihari Vajpayee tower.

 Pakistan: Pakistan's interim Minister for Law and Information Syed Ali Zafar met External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and extended Pakistan's condolence on the death of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Zafar was among the foreign dignitaries who attended Vajpayee's funeral in New Delhi. Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf mourned the demise of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, calling him a great man. He said that Vajpayee’s demise was a great loss for both India as well as Pakistan.

 Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a message of condolences to President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the demise of Vajpayee. Putin termed the former prime minister as "outstanding statesman". "Atal Bihari Vajpayee rightly commanded great respect around the world. He will be remembered as a politician who made a major personal contribution to the friendly relations and privileged strategic partnership between our countries. "The President of Russia conveyed words of sincere sympathy and support to the family of the deceased, the Government and the people of India", the message read.

 Sri Lanka: Various Sri Lanka leaders paid rich tribute to the three-time PM, hailing him as a "friend of Sri Lanka". In a tweetPresident Maithripala Sirisena said: "Today, we have lost a great humanist and a true friend of Sri Lanka. Former Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a visionary leader and an ardent defender of democracy. My condolences to his family and millions of his admirers around the world". Leader of Opposition R. Sampanthan said India has lost one of its "most regarded intellectual and statesman". "He served the great country of India with humility and honesty, and he was much loved and respected by millions of people across the world. Former three-time Prime Minister Vajpayee is also an exceptional orator and a leader with a great sense of humour, his speeches within the Indian parliament and outside will always be remembered", he said in a statement, extending his condolences on behalf of the Tamil people of Sri Lanka.

 United States: U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said Vajpayee recognised early on that the US-India partnership would contribute to the world's economic prosperity and security and the two democracies continue to benefit from his vision. "On behalf of the people of the United States of America, I extend my heartfelt condolences to the people of India on the recent passing of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee", Pompeo said in a statement yesterday. He recalled Vajpayee's address to the Congress in 2000, when he had famously characterised US-India ties as a "natural partnership of shared endeavours". "Today, our two countries and our bilateral relationship continue to benefit from Prime Minister Vajpayee vision, which helped promote expanded cooperation", Pompeo said. He said the American people stand with the people of India "as we mourn Prime Minister Vajpayee's passing" Read the full article

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Imran Khan declared victory in Pakistan's rancorous general election on Thursday as rivals alleged he had benefited from widespread vote rigging. The cricketer-turned-opposition politician appeared set to be prime minister after unofficial forecasts gave him a commanding lead. The 65-year-old given the nicknamed 'Captain' by supporters looked just short of a full majority, but was expected to find small coalition partners easily and declared he had been given a popular mandate. In a speech broadcast from his Bani Gala estate outside Islamabad, he restated his populist promises, vowing a new Pakistan where he would crackdown on corruption and build an Islamic welfare state. However there were fears last night of political paralysis, or even violence after his unexpectedly strong performance at the polls was rejected by rival parties. Khan declared victory in a televised speech on Thursday afternoon Credit: REUTERS The Pakistan Muslim League party of jailed prime minister Nawaz Sharif said the result was based on “massive rigging” that “will cause irreparable damage to the country”. Mr Khan said he was prepared to cooperate in any investigation into vote fraud, but claimed the poll had been “the cleanest elections in Pakistan's history". Reaching out to his country's arch rival, he said he wanted talks with India to resolve their simmering dispute over Kashmir. He said the Indian media had made him feel like a Bollywood villain but "if India takes one step towards us, we will take two steps towards them”. Imran Khan has had to be very flexible indeed on his long climb to power in Pakistan He went on: “Right now, it is one-sided where India is constantly just blaming us." "The leadership of Pakistan and India now need to come to the table to resolve this and end blame games. We are stuck at square one.” He said he wanted peace in Afghanistan and “mutually beneficial” relations with then US, which he has often berated for its foreign policy in the region. The cricketer-turned-politician who began his political struggle 22 years ago added, "God has given me the chance to make my dream come true." Imran Khan interview Supporters of his Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (Pakistan Justice Movement) party had been celebrating all day and gathered outside his hill-top estate as the day wore on. “ I haven't slept all night, I am so excited” said 27-year-old Khurram Shahzad. “He is an honest man and a great man. He will be the greatest leader we have had in our history.” Mr Khan's election marks the end of a long transformation from night-clubbing sportsman to a conservative, nationalist leader of the world's sixth most populous nation. His declaration in the mid -1990s that he would trade his sporting popularity for the brutal world of Pakistan's politics caused scorn at the time and he spent years at the political margins. Shahbaz Sharif shows a document as he speaks during a press conference at his political office in Lahore Credit: AFP His former wife, Jemima Goldsmith, yesterday added her congratulations, but appeared to offer a warning that he must not become corrupted by power. She said his victory followed 22-years of "humiliations, hurdles and sacrifices”. "It's an incredible lesson in tenacity, belief and refusal to accept defeat. The challenge now is to remember why he entered politics in the first place." The suicide bomber struck outside a crowded polling station in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta Credit:  Arshad Butt/ AP European Union poll monitors are on Friday due to give their verdict on whether polling was free and fair. The military establishment which has ruled Pakistan directly or indirectly for much of its history has been accused of sabotaging rivals to favour Mr Khan. Shahbaz Sharif, the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) since his brother Nawaz was ousted and jailed, said voting had seen “outright rigging and the results based on massive rigging will cause irreparable damage to the country.“ His party would use “all political and legal options for redressal of these glaring excesses,” he vowed.

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