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Subscribe Rs NEW DELHI TIMES R.N.I. No 53449/91 DL-SW-1/4124/20-22 (Monday/Tuesday same week) (Published Every Monday) New Delhi Page 24 Rs. 7.00 26 October - 1 November 2020 Vol - 30 No. 39 Email : [email protected] Founder : Dr. Govind Narain Srivastava ISSN -2349-1221 Pakistan cradles Acting hastily terror in Azerbaijan- could lead to the wrong path Armenia war For most of us, in fact every one of us, life is a busy In the very first week of Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh affair, making it easy for the days to run together. enclave, Pakistani leadership had informed the world community about taking For things getting so busy these days, there is hardly part in the conflict from the side of Azerbaijan. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran any time to take a step back and ask ourselves Khan boasted having sent troops to the disputed territory to fight alongside the questions about life and its purposes. But taking out Turkish military and Azerbaijan army in Agdam for fellow Muslims... time to think about these important... By Dr. Ankit Srivastava Page 3 By Dr. Pramila Srivastava Page 24 By NDT Special Bureau Page 2 Dark Energy and its mystic China cited as Pakistan’s Will Russia intervene to defend existence prisoners released Armenia? Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it is On September 02, 2020, Imran Khan, Pakistan’s Prime With no end in sight to the military conflict between converted from one form to another according to First Minister who has always had a reputation of being “one Azerbaijan and the Armenian-populated enclave of Law of Thermodynamics. It is a well proven fact that... for the ladies” took a bold decision and released... Nagorno Karabakh that lies within Azeri... By Sujay Dhawan Page 20 By Himanshu Sharma Page 5 By Tarek Fatah Page 2 For critical insights One Year* Five Year* Subscribe Rs. 350 Rs. 1500 For more information Contact : +91-9999 337 800 To Subscribe E-Paper Whatsapp +91 9999 478 735 * Details on Page 21 1 twitter@NewDelhiTimes facebook.com/newdelhitimes www.NewDelhiTimes.com 2 26 October - 1 November 2020 Opinion NEW DELHI TIMES Democracy: The Lone Savior of Pakistan representatives and the Army, and with eventually made the religious fundamentalist from national security towards larger issues ◆ By NDT Special Bureau time the religious fundamentalists also groups and their leaders too powerful among of social and economic welfare. For a so- @NewDelhiTimes came into the power play. The presence of the domestic populace. Another problem called positive image to become tenable, multiple players at the domestic level and with this defense centric approach is that the the Military does need to step back and [email protected] the tussle/inter-play among them can be country’s precious resources are drained in loosen up its control. It needs to allow the held responsible for the problems Pakistan keeping up with its anti-India foreign policy country to emerge with all its complexity he outlook that Pakistan lacks credibility is facing as a state. and little to no concern is shown to the piling and range of opinions. T within the international community is a debt and engulfing economic crisis. However, that alone wouldn’t be enough, but common perception among the global states Pakistan faces enormous challenges, ranging it would certainly help Pakistan to rise with all and its image continues to get battered on from an unbalanced economy, fragile Since 1985, till 2019, Pakistan has received its domestic complexities as a nation-state and account of a number of issues ranging from governance and security to rampant terrorism. 13 financial bailout packages from the not as a military state. It is high time for ‘the terrorism to financial bailouts to support its But perhaps its greatest challenge is to restore International Monetary Fund (IMF). With Islamic State of dwindling economy. its credibility in the eyes of the world. aggressive curbs on imports and massive devaluation, the country managed to reduce Pakistan’ to The problem is that, since its inception the The establishment’s efforts to project a the current account deficit (CAD) by over 70 transform center of authoritative positive image of the country have had percent in the first seven months of Financial into a real power has always little impact. The question arises whether Year (FY) 2019-20. However, this came at democracy oscillated between Pakistan’s establishment understands the the expense of economic growth, which fell and purify the democratic root cause of the problem. It is no secret from 5.6 percent in 2018 to 3.3 percent in the peaceful that the security establishment, led by the 2019. In 2020, it was being projected to fall image of Islam it Military, are principally the ones involved further to 2.4 percent, without accounting for has maligned with projecting the security narrative the pandemic. These issues are compounded since its internationally, with focus on the questions by Pakistan’s growing public debt, the inception. of national sovereignty. servicing of which constitutes a substantial part of the government expenditure. The Military establishment has always presented India as a threat to the existence of However, this behavior of relying on bailout Pakistan for whose safety necessary action packages from the IMF or aid assistance from must be taken. This mono-dimensional Saudi Arabia and Islamic Development Bank outlook has been the cause behind cannot go forever. The elected representatives need Pakistan’s establishment’s support and to act in accordance to law and should work on linkage with religious extremist groups curbing the corruption, which can also be expedited which have been the root cause in only when the Army would realize that internally tarnishing the image of the country. meddling with the domestic politics creates an In the wake of keeping the breeding atmosphere of political uncertainty as well as grounds for extremists active in low accountability. The understanding of Pakistan the establishment has national interest needs to realigned Will Russia intervene to defend Armenia? of internationally recognized lands of Azerbaijan” and withdraw from the occupied ◆ By Tarek Fatah territories immediately and unconditionally.” Author & Columnist, Canada According to the statement, “During the @TarekFatah Soviet Union collapse, Armenia used that [email protected] opportunity to occupy 20% of Azerbaijan’s lands. Karabakh has been under the ith no end in sight to the military Armenian occupation for almost 30 years.” W conflict between Azerbaijan and the Armenian-populated enclave of Nagorno I asked the organizers of the pro-Azerbaijan Karabakh that lies within Azeri territorial protestors if they acknowledged that Karabakh borders, one Moscow parliamentarian has has an almost 100% Armenian population and raised the stakes to a dangerous level. that as a landlocked enclave it is surrounded PC : Getty Images on all sides by Azerbaijan. Did Nagorno Konstantin Zatulin, the Deputy Chairman of its independence utilizing the same legal as evidenced by the enormous military Karabakh not declare itself an independent the Duma’s Eurasian Integration Committee framework for self-determination as build-up of Azerbaijan assisted with Turkish country after the collapse of the USSR? has called for Russian intervention to save Armenia, Azerbaijan and a host of other made weapons and deployment of jihadist the landlocked Armenians who have declared To broaden the debate, I asked “If Kosovo, republics such as Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, foreign fighters. themselves as an independent country — the Eritrea and East Timur can become Georgia and Tajikistan did. Republic of Artsakh or Nagorno-Karabakh. independent countries, why not Nagorno On its part, Turkey is actively engaged in Karabakh? If Croatia and Slovenia can However, Azerbaijan categorically rejected deploying its entire political and military Zatulin’s words should be read in context of emerge as independent nations, why the Nagorno-Karabakh peoples’ legitimate arsenal to undermine the efforts of the the Armenia-Russia deal extending Russia’s not other countries such as Karabakh, right to self-determination and adopted international community and the Minsk military presence in Armenia in exchange for Balochistan, Kurdistan or Western Sahara?” security guarantees. The deal would see the actions that culminated in a bloody war Group co-chairs to help the parties to lease on a Russian military base in Armenia from 1992-94. The war that caused return to the negotiating table. Turkey I didn’t get a response to the questions I extended from 2020 to 2044. It also calls enormous damage and long-term instability sees the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh as raised. for Russia to provide modern weapons and in the region ended with a trilateral ceasefire an opportunity to exercise its power and equipment to Armenia’s military. between Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and influence to fulfil its neo-Ottoman agenda. Did the Turkish Azeris marching in Toronto Azerbaijan agreed in 1994 and 1995. realize that the memory of the Turkish Azerbaijan’s association with Nagorno While Armenian Canadians have voiced Genocide of Armenians’ forefathers one Karabakh is a result of a Stalinist era Supporters of Nagorno-Karabakh therefore their support of Ottawa’s stand in the hundred years ago is etched in the soul of decision in 1923 that seized the territory insist the clash is not about disputed conflict, Azeri Canadians have come out on every Armenian? from its indigenous people, annexing it to territory, but rather about the issue of self- the streets to express their anger. On Oct. 18, the Azerbaijani Soviet Republic. The fact determination, which they say is an integral about 2,000 pro-Azerbaijan demonstrators Meanwhile, a look at a map of the region is, prior to the establishment of the Soviet- part of basic Human Rights and Fundamental took to the streets in downtown Toronto, to illustrates why Turkey is trying to link up Union, nor after its collapse, Azerbaijan has Freedoms.
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