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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 28 September - 4 October 2020 Vol - 30 No. 35 Email : [email protected] Founder : Dr. Govind Narain Srivastava ISSN -2349-1221 Israel is no Misery is not what happens to us, but how more a pariah we react to it! From 1967, when Israel fought the combined As we as all know that life is full of good might of the Arabs in Yom Kippur War and and bad times; even though we claim that won, it has been the public enemy number we want to be happy, we often end up one for the Arabs. The Arab-supported pursuing things and the ways of life that Palestinians resorted to militancy of all cut us down. We invite misery into our kinds to get back their land and the Arab- lives and then endure sufferings. Israel relations have touched no banks hence. Now, things are changing... We, as a genus, like to imagine that... By Dr. Ankit Srivastava Page 3 By Dr. Pramila Srivastava Page 24 By NDT Special Bureau Page 2 Hotels in Switzerland are on the Beware Pakistan; Gilgit- It’s not just ‘leftists’ who brink of economic meltdown Baltistan is Indian Territory support a basic income Switzerland is considered a dream destination of tourists In 1947, Pakistan occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) from My column last week endorsing a guaranteed basic income globally. People consider it as the ‘Heaven on the Earth’ India through a combination of deceit and force and has triggered a surprising denunciation by many as a “left- and indeed it is true to the core as once you visit... held on to its 73000 sq.km territory for seven decades... wing” writer with quite a few accusing... 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They must pledge not to recruit entered Bosnia between 1992 and 1994 to The TTP could also accept surrender-and- new fighters, stay in their designated places, fight along with the Bosnian civil defence reconciliation with Pakistan but has refused [email protected] and inform about their movements. This will forces. The Dayton Agreement required such offers in the past. If it unifies to fight modulate the Taliban’s relationship with these fighters to leave the Balkans but against Pakistan it would lose the Afghan he intra-Afghan dialogue between the foreign militants in Afghanistan. The TTP majority stayed there. Many fighters got Taliban’s patronage. T Taliban and Afghan Government for has reportedly rejected these terms while integrated as a separate battalion within political reconciliation in Afghanistan has talks continue. the Bosnian Armed Forces and a third were Al Qaeda has rather shown more flexibility to commenced in Doha. The stakeholders are granted Bosnian citizenship. the Taliban conditions. During the US-Taliban very optimistic of the outcome but concerns talks at Doha, the Taliban had even consulted remain on the patchy and lengthy process The Taliban’s potential offer may not work Al Qaeda’s leadership before signing the deal involving multiple conflicting interests. The for all foreign militants. Pakistan doubts presumably within the US knowledge. participants will need to review the status that the TTP won’t accept to live peacefully and revise their stance from time to time. under the Afghan Taliban’s patronage. The The US, Afghanistan and NATO countries Bosnia experiment had produced mixed wont object seriously if Al Qaeda guarantees The Taliban committed in the Doha Deal results at best as some still continued with to live peacefully in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda of February 29, not to allow any terrorist their militant activities and post- 9/11, the Chief Zawahiri’s recent statement on individual or group to use Afghan soil Bosnian authorities revoked more than 1,000 September 11, 2020, did not mention the US against the US and its allies. That’s one citizenships. The Taliban could experience and Afghan Taliban deal probably under the factor critical to both the US-Taliban deal the same thing. Taliban pressure. It would remain calm till and the intra-Afghan dialogue. The Afghan PC : Getty Images it finds another place to relocate and won’t Taliban’s relationship with foreign militants The TTP won’t abandon its stance against sabotage the Afghan peace process and the in Afghanistan is pivotal. Thankfully, the Pakistan or relocate to Pakistan without Taliban’s rise to power. Taliban have begun a review process to effectively holding any territory inside address this concern of Afghan and external The Afghan Taliban issuing such instructions Pakistan. It could strategize and split into No other religious community carries the stakeholders. to foreign militants is understandable. small cells which will weaken its long-term guns to achieve their political goals, the way The foreign militants’ issue will definitely organisational structure, create internal Muslims do and it has painted a picture that A former Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) come under discussion in the intra-Afghan differences within the rank and file and there is something fundamentally wrong Spokesperson tweeted that an Afghan dialogue at some point, and the Afghan energize sectarian fights for supremacy. somewhere with Islam, but it is not true. Taliban delegation was negotiating new Taliban could plan something like granting No religion teaches extremism, nor does terms with the TTP for the latter’s stay in foreign militants’ citizenship, provided The TTP staying in Afghanistan to operate as Islam. It is the fault of the extremists who Afghanistan. The Taliban has framed 27 they commit to live there peacefully. The a proxy of nations hostile to Pakistan could have portrayed Islam in the negative light. rules for foreign militant groups - Al Qaeda, Taliban’s recent conditions for foreign complicate its relationship with the Afghan Afghanistan has never been at peace with Islamic State (IS) and the TTP included - militants indicate such a possibility. Taliban. Even the TTP’s nexus with the IS in itself for centuries and never will be unless forbidding use of Afghan territory against Afghanistan would not create a big impact, it abandons its tribal mind-set. Same thing other countries. The Afghan Taliban have The Taliban’s proposal echoes the Dayton as the Islamic State is a weak organisation can be said about Pakistan, Syria and Iraq. It’s not just ‘leftists’ who support a basic income 3. The United Church of Canada believes, “A that found the top 1% of wealthy Canadians [basic income] program would help provide account for more than a quarter of the ◆ By Tarek Fatah an adequate living level for everyone and country’s wealth, while the bottom 40% Author & Columnist, Canada address the persistent inequities within our account for a measly 1%. @TarekFatah country.” [email protected] It is that bottom 40% that seems most 4. Pope Francis, who wrote after the hostile to the basic income idea along with M y column last week endorsing a coronavirus pandemic, “This may be the the ideological ultra-right, who massage the guaranteed basic income triggered a time to consider a universal basic wage … egos of the working class to fight against its surprising denunciation by many as a “left- that would ensure and concretely achieve own interests. wing” writer with quite a few accusing me the ideal, at once so human and so Christian, of pushing a “Communist “agenda. of no worker without rights.” Thus, when the Toronto Star reported that If that diatribe were not enough, the millionaire Maple Leafs Darcy Tucker 5. The Anglican Church of Canada. In May, and Shayne Corson were being accused of unemployed, homeless, disabled and people 41 bishops of the Anglican and Evangelical out on their luck who stood to regain their participating in a ‘sham’ to avoid paying Lutheran Church in Canada wrote to Prime their fair share of taxes, don’t be surprised dignity as fellow Canadians, were depicted Minister Justin Trudeau: “We recommend [a as lazy and a drain on the country’s resources. if it generates no anger among the ‘petit- basic income], not just as an astute financial bourgeois’. policy, but also because it marks our identity Added to this was the perennial argument as a country who cares for one another.” and question that is always brought up If evidence was needed of how this group whenever Western societies have move Some middle-class Canadians seem holds our governments and institutions in moved toward egalitarianism — “who will traumatized at the thought, that their contempt, it came with the leaking of 25,000 pay for this largesse?” documents on Monday that listed the money working-class low-income fellow citizens PC : Getty Images laundering of two trillion dollars from right So, allow me to list a few ‘leftists’ who would get “free money.” But the same under the nose of the US Treasury and with Two books may help those who find the have endorsed the idea of such a guaranteed people who feign concern over Canada’s the tacit involvement of big banks in U.K., concept of economic equity offensive.