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Bloomberg
2 days ago
- Politics
- Bloomberg
India Rejects Joint Defense Statement at Key China-Led Summit
India declined to back a joint statement at the China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization meet, marking a rare public rift within the security bloc and highlighting unresolved tensions following its near-war with Pakistan last month. 'On our side, India wanted concerns on terrorism reflected in the document which was not acceptable to one particular country,' Randhir Jaiswal, spokesperson for India's Ministry of External Affairs, told reporters in New Delhi on Thursday, without naming any nation.
Arab News
3 days ago
- Politics
- Arab News
Trump praises ‘very impressive' Pakistan army chief, reiterates trade stopped Indo-Pak war
ISLAMABAD: US President Donald Trump praised Pakistan's army chief on Wednesday, describing him as 'very impressive' while reiterating his earlier claim of preventing a nuclear war between Islamabad and New Delhi with trade deals last month. Trump hosted Field Marshal General Asim Munir for lunch last Wednesday in an unprecedented White House meeting. The American president had told reporters he was 'honored' to meet the Pakistani general and that the two discussed the Iran-Israel conflict. Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan engaged in a days-long military conflict before Trump announced a ceasefire between the two on May 10. Trump has repeatedly said he offered to help both nations with trade if they agreed to de-escalate. At the NATO summit in The Hague, Trump was asked by a reporter why he had failed to stop the ongoing military conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The American president responded by saying he had stopped wars between Iran and Israel as well as India and Pakistan, saying the conflict 'was getting very bad' between the nuclear-armed rivals. 'And in fact I had the general, who was very impressive, the general from Pakistan was in my office last week,' Trump said. He described Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a 'great man, a great gentleman,' saying Washington helped both countries reason with each other at the height of the conflict. 'I said we're not going to do a trade deal if you're going to fight and if you're going to fight each other we're not doing a trade deal and you know what, they said, 'No, I want to do the trade deal.' And we stopped a nuclear war.' Pakistan's government last week announced it would formally nominate Trump for what it called his 'decisive diplomatic intervention' during the military standoff with India in May. The American president has also previously offered to mediate the decades-old Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, who both claim the disputed Himalayan region in full but administer only parts of it. While the ceasefire continues to persist, tensions simmer as New Delhi refuses to budge from its stance of suspending a decades-old water-sharing treaty with Pakistan. Pakistan has said any attempts to stop or divert its flow of water by India will be regarded as an 'act of war' and will be responded to with full force.
South China Morning Post
4 days ago
- Politics
- South China Morning Post
Pakistan's Nobel Peace Prize nod to Trump stirs India concerns of US tilt to Islamabad
The nomination was formally filed on Saturday by Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar, who praised Trump's role in helping mediate a ceasefire during last month's cross-border flare-up between India and Pakistan. Dar credited Trump with 'critical and pragmatic diplomacy' that averted wider conflict, describing the intervention as an act of 'stellar statesmanship'. The gesture followed a high-profile lunch hosted by Trump last week for General Asim Munir – the first time a Pakistani military leader has been received at the White House under Islamabad's civilian government – and has been widely interpreted as a symbolic endorsement of Trump's claim that he defused tensions between the two nuclear rivals. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi , who had declined Trump's invitation to visit the White House citing prior commitments, has remained publicly silent. US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a meeting at the White House in Washington on February 13. Modi has been silent on Pakistan's nomination of Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Photo: Reuters Observers say, however, that eyebrows have been raised in Delhi over the optics of Trump extending such visible warmth to Munir, and the timing and framing of the Nobel nomination, which appears aimed at reinforcing Trump's long-standing narrative that his personal diplomacy helped prevent open conflict between India and Pakistan
Bloomberg
4 days ago
- Politics
- Bloomberg
India's Defense Minister Heads to China After a Five-Year Gap
India's Defense Minister Rajnath Singh will visit China — his first trip in five years — amid ongoing efforts by the world's two most populous nations to mend ties after the 2020 border clashes. Singh will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization defense ministers' meeting in Qingdao starting Wednesday, where he will focus on regional and global security and counter-terrorism, India's Defence Ministry said Tuesday. Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval is also in China for meetings of the SCO, a China-led multilateral group comprising nine permanent members, including India and Pakistan.
Arab News
5 days ago
- Politics
- Arab News
Share Indus water fairly or Islamabad will secure it ‘from all six rivers,' Pakistan ex-FM tells India
ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistani foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday asked India to share the Indus water fairly or Islamabad will secure it 'from all six rivers.' The statement came days after Indian interior minister Amit Shah said New Delhi will 'never' reinstate the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) it suspended with Pakistan over an attack in India-administered Kashmir. India accused Pakistan of backing the assault, a charge denied by Islamabad and one which was followed by four-day military standoff between the two countries last month. The IWT grants Pakistan rights to the Indus basin's western rivers — Indus, Jhelum, and Chenab — for irrigation, drinking, and non-consumptive uses like hydropower, while India controls the eastern rivers — Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej — for unrestricted use but must not significantly alter their flow. India can use the western rivers for limited purposes such as power generation and irrigation, without storing or diverting large volumes, according to the agreement. A day after the Kashmir attack that killed 26 tourists, New Delhi announced it was putting the 1960 World Bank-mediated treaty, which ensures water for 80 percent of Pakistani farms, in abeyance. Pakistan has previously said the treaty has no provision for one side to unilaterally pull back and that any blocking of river water flowing to Pakistan will be considered 'an act of war.' 'India has two options: share water fairly or we will deliver water to us from all six rivers [of the Indus basin],' Bhutto-Zardari said, while addressing the lower house of Pakistan parliament. 'The attack on Sindhu [Indus river] and India's claim that the IWT has ended and it's in abeyance, firstly, this is illegal, as the IWT is not in abeyance, it is binding on Pakistan and India but the threat itself of stopping water is illegal according to the UN charter.' The former foreign minister, who recently led a diplomatic mission to key world capitals to present Pakistan's stance on the latest crisis with India, said Islamabad had defeated New Delhi on the 'battlefield, in diplomacy, and in the war of narratives.' On Saturday, Indian interior minister Shah said they would take the water that was flowing to Pakistan to the Indian state of Rajasthan by constructing a canal 'Pakistan will be starved of water that it has been getting unjustifiably,' he told Times of India newspaper. The latest comments from Shah, the most powerful cabinet minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet, have dimmed Islamabad's hopes for negotiations on the treaty in the near term. Halting the water agreement was one of a series of tit-for-tat diplomatic measures taken by both countries in the immediate aftermath of the April 22 attack in Kashmir. Islamabad is also exploring a legal challenge to India's decision to hold the treaty in abeyance under international law. New Delhi has not made public any evidence of Islamabad's alleged involvement in the Kashmir assault. During the four days of fighting which followed in May, more than 70 people were killed in missile, drone and artillery fire. It was the worst standoff between the nuclear-armed neighbors since 1999.
