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31 August - 6 September 2020 Vol - 30 No. 31 Email : [email protected] Founder : Dr. Govind Narain Srivastava ISSN -2349-1221 Anti-Semitism of Jinnah’s Conservatives elect Pakistan refuses to subside another Andrew Scheer The question of recognition of Israel as a Jewish State by countries that The Conservatives have done it again. In May 2017, they still abstain from it and the path leading to the formation of diplomatic opted for the relatively unknown non-descript, ever- relations with the nation, have again came into the realm of mainstream smiling, dimple-faced Andrew Scheer as their discussion post the United State-led Peace Agreement between Israel leader, when they could have chosen a better- and the United Arab Emirates on August 13. known politician in Maxime Bernier, who served as foreign minister in Prime Minister What will be interesting to note in the wake of the recent development, Stephen Harper’s cabinet. that has polarised the Arab world, is how Pakistan - a country that vehemently failed to veil its anti-Semitism, will shape its relationship The fiery determination that makes a politician with Israel. Has the discussion regarding... into a memorable leader was absent... By Dr. Ankit Srivastava Page 3 By Tarek Fatah Page 2

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Opinion NEW DELHI TIMES India’s growing influence in the Middle East nullifies Pakistan’s cry for Kashmir and Turkey - to the forefront of Muslim ◆ By NDT Special Bureau leadership. But blanket Muslim solidarity on @NewDelhiTimes the Kashmir and Palestine issues may never happen. Saudi Arabia has been the leader of [email protected] Islamic countries since the inception of the OIC in 1969. Now Turkey is aspirant, so are ndia’s influence in the Middle East has Pakistan and Malaysia. There is too big a I underwent a significant upsurge as a crowd up there while nonagenarian Islamist result of the positive diplomatic maneuvers Mahathir Mohammed eyes the post. The under the Look West policy carried out by UAE-Israel deal could cause further decline the Narendra Modi government. This policy in the Muslim world’s ritual espousal of has resulted in an expansion of India’s Palestine and Kashmir causes. Pakistan went bilateral relations with countries of the overdrive on Muslim solidarity in Kashmir Middle East from oil-energy trade and the and furiously banged its head on the OIC visits of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has doors but its silence on the oppression of further boosted the geo-strategic interests of Uyghurs in Xinjiang exposed its political both the side. A glaring testimony to this was

PC : Getty Images opportunism, and eroded its credibility. the invitation extended by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in 2019 to late the religion. India’s cooling relations with and Iran have called this an internal matter Saudis and Turkey enjoy cordial relations Sushma Swaraj, who was then the Indian Iran and potential loss of the Chabahar of India. Pakistan’s recent dealings with with Israel. Turkey has formal relations with Minister of External Affairs. Swaraj was the Port to China is a sacrifice to rear Arabian Saudi Arabia can at the best be described Israel since 1950 but won’t like the UAE “guest of honour” at the inaugural plenary interests. Now India may edge even closer to as naïve and puerile. Pakistan literally doing the same. Turkey revels in hypocrisy, 46th meeting of OIC Foreign Ministers. This the Gulf Arabs for safety in an Arab détente begged Saudi Arabia to speak on Kashmir. double talk and never walks the talk on was a major diplomatic blow to Pakistan and with Israel. India’s growing influence in However, Saudi Arabia was so miffed that its Middle-East policy. Turkey remains as expected, it started fuming with baseless the Middle East nullifies Pakistan’s cry for the country demanded Pakistan repay to part a hot spot for Israeli tourism so much so rhetoric. This rhetoric, however, did not find Kashmir. of the $3bn loan and also froze a $3.2bn oil that Israeli don’t even need to apply for a any popular support. credit facility. VISA to visit Turkey. The UAE-Israel deal Pakistan has also been time and again left should goad other Arab countries towards India is deepening engagement with the Gulf red-faced over the fact that it’s propaganda Islamists must realize that the world has normalization. Islamism has run its course. nations, cultivating much better ties with on Kashmir finds virtually no backing in changed a lot in the last six decades. Days of hard-core Islamist ideology and Arabs than Pakistan! It is a zero-sum game the Middle East countries. After India took Countries today have economic Islamic fundamentalism are over. Pakistan for Pakistan. Policy based on religion rather the much-needed step to scrap Article 370, compulsions of feeding millions; Islamism and the few nations who back it must realize than economic considerations gets doomed. Pakistan started crying foul but of no avail. and geopolitics can wait. This has brought that Seventh Century ideology has no takers After all, money gets food on the plate, not The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia non-Arab Muslim countries - Malaysia in the Twenty First Century. Conservatives elect another Andrew Scheer times where ideas count. There are no high principles or ideologies that are debated ◆ By Tarek Fatah among the “I’m like” generation of the Tik- Author & Columnist, Canada Tok era. @TarekFatah [email protected] Anyone looking back for a Chretien- Mulroney-Broadbent contest should realize T he Conservatives have done it again. In that the electorate has deteriorated as much May 2017, they opted for the relatively as the leadership. Imagine Chretien photo- unknown non-descript, ever-smiling, bombing a group of teens or Broadbent in dimple-faced Andrew Scheer as their leader, ‘blackface’ or Mulroney dipping into ethnic when they could have chosen a better-known vote banks for survival. politician in Maxime Bernier, who served as foreign minister in Prime Minister Stephen If the electorate was serious about the affairs Harper’s cabinet. of the nation, then the WE scandal would have made Trudeau resign, not his finance

The fiery determination that makes a PC : Getty Images minister. People would have been furious politician into a memorable leader was at the nepotism and scarcity of truth that absent from Scheer’s demeanour. And, try as In Quebec, the Bloc Quebecois was at 33%, chosen to take on Trudeau. gushed out of ministers and MPs who, like one may, he just didn’t look prime minister statistically tied with the Liberals in that Jay-Z, simply shrugged the “dirt off their material. Perhaps a Joe Clark, but certainly province at 32%, with the Conservatives Now imagine the scenario if the shoulders”. not John Diefenbaker or the sharp Brian well behind at 16%, with the NDP at a conservatives had elected Dr. Leslyn Lewis Mulroney. dismal 12%. as their leader. It would have caused a tremor Seems the “ordinary” Canadian too couldn’t that would have shaken up the Libs as well At last week’s convention, the Conservatives give a damn about alleged corruption and Critically, when asked specifically which as the Dippers. But when you are looking could have chosen Peter MacKay, a well- nepotism at the highest levels. party would earn their vote if Erin O’Toole, for coal in a diamond mine, you’ll miss the liked experienced politician, who had served who was elected leader on Sunday, was at the Kohinoor even if it dazzles in your face. both as defence and foreign minister as well A new Leger poll suggests Canadians helm of the Conservatives, Liberal support as attorney general. believe Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the bumped up one point, while Conservative Lewis is a Toronto lawyer who has a Masters leader best able to care for them during the support dropped to 27%. in Environmental Studies and a PhD in MacKay who was chosen as “Canada’s COVID-19 pandemic and to get the country’s international law from Osgoode Hall Law Sexiest Male MP” by The Hill Times economy back on its feet, notwithstanding The poll also suggested that O’Toole School, among other accomplishments. She from 1999–2007 is married to Iranian- his brush with the Kielburger Brothers is an unknown quantity for a majority would have created enthusiasm not because born Nazanin Afshin-Jam and could have money-making. of Canadians. Asked if they’d vote she is a woman (we’ve seen that in Kim decimated the WE-wounded Justin Trudeau Conservative if O’Toole was at the helm, Campbell), but she is the epitome of what and, my choice, Jagmeet Singh of the NDP. Asked about their choice among parties if an 51% said they didn’t know. an immigrant to Canada can accomplish in election was called today, 38% of decided the True North. For those who feel I am giving too much voters said they’d support the Liberals It’s not far-fetched to conclude the responses importance to appearance and demeanour, compared to 30% for the Conservatives, and would have been more favourable to the Time wasted. Opportunity lost. The saga of I have a message: We are no longer in only 18% for the NDP. Conservatives had Peter MacKay been Conservatives carries on. www.NewDelhiTimes.com India’s only International Newspaper

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Editor’s Desk NEW DELHI TIMES Hypocrisy at its best Anti-Semitism of Jinnah’s Pakistan refuses to subside been sowed by the country’s leadership formation, with full vigour opposed the idea of Jinnah despite not being overt in its ◆ Dr. Ankit Srivastava at the time of partition and till date under separate country based on Jewish nationalism. opposition to Israel’s formation, has with Chief Editor the garb of mass affiliation and public Jinnah’s hypocrisy could no more be shielded his clandestine actions written a maligning @AnkitNDT sentiments, Pakistan has been solidifying who deemed Muslim nationalism necessary, story. Post the declaration of independence its step-motherly treatment towards the but was intolerant towards the very mention of Israel, the country’s first Prime Minister, [email protected] Jews residing in the country. It is both side- of Jewish nationalism. In the UN General David Ben-Gurion sent a telegram to Jinnah, splitting as well as an eye-opener for the Assembly, Pakistan’s first Foreign Minister with an intention to establish diplomatic he question of recognition of Israel as world at large to notice how Pakistan has Zafarullah Khan vehemently opposed the relations, but to the dismay, Israel even T a Jewish State by countries that still been moulding the sentiment of its Islamic idea of new Jewish state carved out of didn’t merit a reply. The Gulf nations are abstain from it and the path leading to the population in the name of religion against Palestine deeming it to be a by-product of warming up ties with Israel by analysing the formation of diplomatic relations with the the Jews in the country. Tooling upon the artificial immigration. Just two months into need of the hour and paving way for a new nation, have again came into the realm of theological concepts of Islamic contempt for the formation of a new country and with such power structure to emerge. But Pakistan, mainstream discussion post the United State- ‘Yahood’ (Jews) and ‘Hanood’ (Hindus), the bravado, the Pakistani political elites forgot despite being a mere beneficiary of the led Peace Agreement between Israel and the country’s leadership has been painting the its past of largest mass immigration in human Gulf countries, has dared to challenge its United Arab Emirates on August 13. What pictures of Jews and Hindus in the negative history post the partition of India in 1947. benefactors forgetting its waning position in will be interesting to note in the wake of the light. Stereotyping the Jews and Hindus in the global politics at large, the recent bawl recent development, that has polarised the the country as “traitors” and “intelligence Pakistan is among the few countries that with Saudi Arabia being the most evident Arab world, is how Pakistan - a country that agents”, the establishment in the country has bars travels to and from Israel and the example. vehemently failed to veil its anti-Semitism, been kindling hatred in en masses. Any one Pakistani passport reads, “This passport is will shape its relationship with Israel. working against the country are termed as valid for all countries of the world except With the US playing a key role in Israeli Jews, bringing to the surface the inherent Israel.” Excluding Israel in the name of conflict, how will Pakistan shape its politics Has the discussion regarding recognition hatred for the world at large to see. strengthening the Muslim Brotherhood will will be a show for the world to see. The of Israel in Pakistan been rather discreet only pay Pakistan in the negative as the anti-Semitism of Pakistanis is so evident than overt? Pakistan has been quite vocal The Pakistani leaders, especially the rigidity towards Jews are being subsided by that even discussions pertaining to potential and adamant about its stranded relationship Founding Father of the country, Muhammad several Gulf countries, the UAE projecting diplomatic relations with Israel is a taboo- with Israel as part of expressing solidarity Ali Jinnah, Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan a significant example. Despite the Israeli subject in the country. Through intrigue, to the Muslim Ummah in general and the and Muhammad Iqbal, left no leaf unturned attempt to normalize ties with Pakistan might and deception, Pakistan continue to Arab world in particular. Being one of the to carve out Pakistan from the Indian sub- since several decades of independence, hold a bizarre contradiction over Israel and 30 countries out of the 193 members of the continent based on religious factors, but Pakistan’s back-stabbing attitude will shield its façade of protecting the Muslims across United Nations that have not recognised failed to recognize the same logic for Israel it to engage diplomatically with Israel. the globe remains exposed over its enigmatic Israel as a Jewish State, Pakistan has that fought to demand a separate country for silence on the situation of the Uyghur adopted conflicting politics in the matter Jews based on the parameters of religion. Pakistan has expediently utilized the anti- Muslims in China’s Xinjiang. Pakistan’s per se. The country’s duplicitous stand on What hypocrisy at display! Bravo! Israel sentiments for rabble-rousing and has inveterate hostility to Jews bring to the front Israel could definitely be traced to its leaders placed Israel in a competitive list with its its deceits and wily of painting the national disagreeing politics which has witnessed Jinnah’s anti-Semitism remained exposed arch-rival India to compete for the enemy image with a secular paint brush. several road bumps pertaining to attached with his overt denial of recognising Israel at number one position. While Pakistan has ulterior motives of being the flag bearers of any cost during several speeches delivered continued to stab dagger at the Israeli Isn’t it absurd that Pakistan knocks at the radical Islam. during the Muslim League’s meetings. interests, in contrast Israel has taken doors of all international organisations be His voice had threat and that same threat affirmative steps to it the UN to take up the Kashmir issue, The Zionist state was conquered by the continues in Pakistan with the country’s ease the rising but when it comes to the Israeli question it Ottoman Empire in 1517 and the Empire corrupt leaders tooling upon it for their own temperature abhors the same international organisation ruled over the country for nearly 400 years selfish motives. For Jinnah, any comparison of the to be biased? Pakistan and paradox till 1917, when the British finally subjugated between the two religious nation states political definitely go hand in hand with it. The Jewish State of Israel was proclaimed during the formation of the country, has room. the dilemma of indulgence and under the British Mandate for Palestine in been quite outrageous. Pakistan-the country credence staying at the core. 1948 which gained the recognition of the UN whose very foundation is based on Muslim General Assembly but attracted the wrath nationalism, during the United Nations of the Arab countries. Till date the Israel- General Assembly session in October 1947, Palestine conflict has been kept ablaze to be just two months tailored time and again for political motives. post its Despite having similarity per se with Israel, Very true Janab & as both Pakistan and Israel are the only Pakistan is land of ideological states in the world, the Islamic the pure with peace State of Pakistan conveniently denies the and tranquility later existence as it would threaten its stand on Kashmir. The case of Israel and Palestine is similar in nature to the Kashmir conflict, and the rant of Pakistan about being the saviour of Islam and working for the greater good of the religion, falls flat as the country’s venomous politics is exposed with-it denying Israel its deserved due.

Projecting itself to be the flag-bearers of Islam, and showcasing their alignment to the Arab world by just haranguing the Israel issue, while conveniently dropping issues of importance like the Arab worlds’ close and friendly ties with India - Pakistan’s arch-rival, the Islamic State of Pakistan has crossed all barriers of sycophancy and beggar attitude. It is just for the sake of M. A. Jinnah funds flowing inside the Pakistani borders, that the leaders of the Naya Pakistan veil their duplicitous intentions.

The anti-Semitic attitude of Pakistan has Liaquat Ali Khan

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International NEW DELHI TIMES International Political Scenario of the Week Chile ◆ By NDT Bureau @NewDelhiTimes On August 27, Chilean lorry driver went on strike in protest over violence affecting them [email protected] in the country’s restive Araucania province Algeria and the slow progress through Congress of a raft of security and justice bill. The lorry Since the Hirak protest movement, which drivers have been dealing with an upsurge is calling for radical political change in of attacks, including theft of their vehicles Algeria, started in February 2019, at least and cargoes, some of which have included eight journalists have been imprisoned over violence. In the last few weeks, the attacks their reporting or social media posts, often have become a near daily occurrence. after being convicted on bogus charges such “Before we counted five attacks per year, fired from 200-300 meters (660-990 feet) government’s attention to global climate and as “harming Algeria’s territorial integrity”, but this year we’re headed to 100. This is away, missed their target, hitting a nearby ecological concerns. London, Manchester, “insulting the President of the Republic” or a desperate situation,” trucker association object. Bristol, Cardiff and Leeds will be the key “inciting a gathering.” leader Jose Villagran said. Although lorry centres of protests. In London, protestors drivers are likely to block access roads In response, Israeli artillery fired a number On August 24, a first-instance court in the are planning to block roads around the nationwide, traffic disruption is likely to of flares and smoke shells into the air as city of Constantine sentenced journalist and Parliament on September 1, as they call on be concentrated in the country’s southern troops searched the area for potential border activist Abdelkrim Zeghileche to two years in the MPs to back a climate emergency bill. regions of Biobío, Araucanía, and Los Ríos, breaches and shortly afterwards, Israeli prison over two of his Facebook posts. In another The group said, “On 1 September the UK and around the capital Santiago. aircraft bombed a number of Hezbollah high-profile case, on August 10, Sidi M’hamed Parliament starts re-sitting after the summer: observation posts near the frontier. This first instance court in Algiers sentenced so, we’re going to make sure they start anew Israel type of incident is likely to recur, with Israel prominent journalist Khaled Drareni to three with justice, care and life at the heart of it. imposing curfews and shutting down traffic years in prison over his coverage of the Hirak Tensions have been growing on the Israel- in northern Israeli towns along the border. protest movement, as well as his appearances in Lebanon border. The Israel Defence Forces From the 1st we will peacefully disrupt the foreign media. Protests are likely to take place (IDF) claim that on August 25, Hezbollah United Kingdom UK Parliament in London, carrying out demanding the release of the journalists. Police is snipers fired two shots from a small arms pressure building actions over two weeks, likely to use the movement restrictions imposed weapon at combat intelligence troops The Extinction Rebellion (XR) environmental until they back the Climate and Ecological due to the COVID-19 crisis as a pretext to curtail operating near the Israeli community of movement has announced several protests Emergency Bill and prepare for crisis with a the protestors. Manara near the Lebanese border. The shots, across the United Kingdom to bring the National Citizens’ Assembly.” Israel fights against Islamist groups-Hamas and Hezbollah aerial defence post, observation posts and ◆ By NDT Bureau underground infrastructures. Dozens of @NewDelhiTimes blazes were reported in southern Israel, as balloon-launched firebombs set agricultural [email protected] fields and scrubland alight. In response, srael-Hezbollah conflict flared up on Israel closed its cargo crossing with Gaza I July 27, with Hezbollah’s forces attack and reduced the territory’s permitted coastal along the Lebanese-Israeli frontier. Israeli fishing zone. troops thwarted the infiltration attempt Hamas and Israel have fought three wars of Hezbollah terror squad of three to five since 2008. The truce, signed in 2019, was militants as they crossed the Blue Line. backed by the UN, Egypt and Qatar but Hezbollah had fired a guided missile at Hamas continued the torments sporadically Israeli tank in the Shebaa Farms area of with rockets, mortar fire or incendiary Israel. Israel threatened Lebanon and balloons. The Gaza Strip has a population of Hezbollah of consequences for attacks two million, but half of them are poor as per from the Lebanese territory. Iranian-backed the World Bank estimates. Hezbollah has deployed fighters in Syria Conflict flared up again on August 15 to support President Assad to suppress PC : Getty Images protests spiralling since 2011. Israel sees evening, when dozens of Palestinian rioters the Hezbollah and Iran presence in Syria burned tyres, hurled explosive devices and with “terrorists who try to murder us and anticipating retaliatory Israeli attacks. So, as a strategic threat, hence repeatedly raids grenades towards the security fence along our children”. Israel’s Army also closed the Israel pounds Hamas facilities almost every Iranian-linked targets the Gaza-Israeli border. fishing zone around the Palestinian enclave, night as preventive measure. Israel has there. Firebombs attached to slashing Gaza’s permitted coastal fishing closed its only commercial crossing with Tensions flare up balloons or kites and zone from 15 nautical miles to eight - a Gaza, banned sea access and halted fuel After Hezbollah’s, now between Hamas launched into southern punitive move often used in response to the imports into Gaza, causing shut down of its Israel caused thousands comes the Hamas story. & Israel. Hamas Gaza unrest. Israel’s Military decided to only power plant. Mediators from the United of fires. There were 19 entirely shut down the fishing zone of the Nations, Egypt and Qatar are working to On August 14, a week- doesnt abstain such Palestinians attacks Gaza Strip immediately starting August 16. restore calm. long hostility raged itself from shelling on August 15 alone. Israel also closed its Kerem Shalom goods between Israel and the Two rockets fired were crossing with the Gaza Strip. The Hamas needs to change its mind-set. It Palestinian enclave. rockets & mortar intercepted by Israel’s cannot force Israel by rockets and grenades. The Hamas launched and Israel also Iron Dome defence On August 26, Hezbollah fired shots Better to be pragmatic, stop ineffective firebombs and explosives system. from Lebanon towards Israeli troops and violence and negotiate and protest peacefully suspended from arson retaliates equally Palestinians launched incendiary balloons to garner support. balloons over the Gaza Israel responded by from its enclave. Israeli warplanes bombed border into the Israeli territory. In response, launching new air strikes on August 16, Hamas targets in Gaza in response. Israel is not India. It reacts too fast in Israel Defence Force (IDF) fighter jets, against several targets of Islamist group self-defence. Israelis survive and prosper attack helicopters and tanks struck Hamas Hamas in Gaza including a military Soldiers deployed illumination flares, smoke through hard-work, patriotism and loyalty to military targets in the Gaza Strip. compound storing rocket ammunition. shells and live fire. IDF attack helicopters and Israel. As of 2017, out of 902 Nobel Prizes Hamas’s refusal to stop the attacks prevents aircraft struck Hezbollah observation posts, awarded to individuals, Jews have cornered The Hamas’ hostile actions came just hours Gazans from living in dignity and security. and targeted underground infrastructure 203 i.e. 22.5%. Jewish population comprises after Israel-UAE agreed to normalise ties in belonging to Islamist group Hamas that rules less than 0.2% of the world’s population a landmark US-brokered deal. Palestinians The southern Israel town of Sderot was Gaza. Helium balloons launched by Islamist whereas Jewish Nobel laureates account rejected that agreement as “betrayal” of most affected by the balloon attacks. Israel group Hamas carry incendiary material that 112.5 times the global average or 11,250%! their cause, and claimed Jerusalem as the said if Sderot isn’t quiet, then Gaza won’t torch tracts of southern Israeli farmland. That speaks a lot about the country that is capital of their future state. Israel hit Hamas be either and resolved to deal forcefully It evacuates launching sites thereafter Israel. www.NewDelhiTimes.com India’s only International Newspaper

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International NEW DELHI TIMES Repatriation of IS militants in Western Balkans poses challenges for justice system 57 cases remain in progress. As of July ◆ By NDT Bureau 2020, there have been at least eight cases @NewDelhiTimes of reported Bosnian Islamic State militants repatriated to Bosnia and Herzegovina as [email protected] part of two separate repatriation operations.

he Balkans has been one of the regions However, sentences handed down by T of recruitment of foreign fighters the Bosnian criminal justice system joining the ranks of the Islamic State since remain below the average prison term in the terrorist group became an influential the European Union for similar crimes. non-state actor across eastern Syria and According to the EUROPOL 2020 TE-SAT north-western Iraq. There has also been a report, in 2019 the average prison term for significant amount of assessments carried PC : Getty Images Islamist militancy in the EU was five years. out with regards to the issue of foreign The average prison sentence rendered for Syria and Iraq. Although arguably motivated had been detained by Kurdish-led forces. fighter returnees and the possible associated all terrorist offences (not limited to Islamist by a variety of reasons, most of them ended An analysis by the Balkan Insight Research threats with them. militancy) in the EU in 2019 was six years. up joining jihadist militias and designated Network (BIRN) found that Kosovo and According to a February 2019 report by terrorist organizations like the Islamic State Serbia have sentenced the largest number North Macedonian courts of first instance have the Western Balkans Extremism Research (IS) and Jabhat al-Nusra. Two-thirds of those of foreign fighters, while Bosnia and handed down the longest prison sentences in Forum, a United Kingdom Government who travelled were male adults at the time of Herzegovina and North Macedonia have the Western Balkans to repatriated Islamic departure. The remaining had the most convictions funded project, the number of Western According to the State militants, as of July 2020. North one-third of largely non- for domestic terrorism. Balkans originating travellers to the conflict EUROPOL 2020 TE-SAT Macedonia’s National Coordinative Body for combatant travellers was As per the BIRN insight, zones in Syria and Iraq is estimated to be at report, in 2019 the Prevention of Violent Extremism and Fight made up of minors (18%) in April 2019, 110 citizens around 1,000 and of which around 30 percent average prison term for Against Terrorism says it has identified 156 and women (15%). - 32 women, 74 children, have already returned, and the percentage Islamist militancy in the people who participated in fighting in Iraq and mostly under the age of of those who have returned is more or less EU was five years. The Syria, of whom 35 are believed to have died As of July 2020, North 15, and four adult fighters proportionally distributed among all the average prison sentence there, while 23 out of 83 who have returned to Macedonia, Kosovo, and - returned to Kosovo at Western Balkans countries. rendered for all terrorist the country have received sentences. Bosnia and Herzegovina once from Syria. Kosovo offences (not limited to According to a January 2020 study by have repatriated a total of has indicted 171 persons The return of the IS fighters also poses a Islamist militancy) in the the Italian Institute for International 19 Islamic State militants in total for terrorism, significant security risk in the Balkans. EU in 2019 was six years Political Studies, at the end of 2019, about from Syria. They are the while the courts have They could significantly garner support for 1,070 nationals of Kosovo, Bosnia and only European countries to have publicly sentenced 123 persons on terrorism-related the ISIS propaganda in a region which is Herzegovina, Northern Macedonia, Albania, and voluntarily repatriated adult male cases. Courts have ruled on 87 indictments marred by economic shortages and political Serbia, and Montenegro had travelled to citizens affiliated with the Islamic State who filed for participation in foreign wars, while vulnerabilities. Expansion of Boko Haram continues to present security challenges in West Africa Boko Haram uses factors such as poverty, corruption, historic grievances, sectarian enmity as fertile grounds to grow and spread by all means in West Africa Chad. So far in 2020, the terror organization ◆ By NDT Bureau has struck nine times across Africa killing @NewDelhiTimes around 330 people. Despite Boko Haram’s retreat following a regional military [email protected] offensive in 2015 by the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) - composed of troops oko Haram, which loosely translates as from Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and B “Western education is forbidden,” is a Nigeria - Boko Haram continues to exercise terrorist group based in north-eastern Nigeria a significant security threat in West Africa. and has spread to countries including Chad, Niger, and northern Cameroon. Boko Haram Boko Haram has been fighting to carve uses factors such as poverty, corruption, out an Islamic Caliphate based in Nigeria. historic grievances, sectarian enmity as In Nigeria, a decade of jihadist violence fertile grounds to grow and spread by all in the north-east has killed some 30,000 means in West Africa. PC : Getty Images people, displaced more than three million In March 2015, Abubakar Shekau pledged and plunged the region into a humanitarian refugees. According to Human Rights attack near the village of Nguetchewe. allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and crisis. The ISWAP has carried out numerous Watch, the attacks are often indiscriminate According to UNHCR Spokesperson Babar the Levant (ISIL), and changed the group’s attacks in Nigeria, since its formation. or deliberately target civilians. The attacks Baloch, more than 87 attacks have been name to Islamic State West Africa Province On July 29, 2020, Boko Haram fighters have included suicide bombings in crowded recorded this year in Cameroon, which are (ISWAP). The ISIL accepted the pledge the opened fire on the convoy of Babagana civilian areas such as markets, mosques, attributed to Boko Haram. same month. Zulum, Governor of Borno State. The churches, schools, displacement camps, attack followed ISWAP’s release of a video and bus stations; kidnappings, including These incidents are not only a sad reminder In August 2016, the ISIL Leadership recognized showing the execution-style murder of of women and children; and widespread of the intensity and brutality of the violence and appointed Abu Musab al-Barnawi as the five aid workers. These indicate a strong looting and destruction of civilian property. in the wider Lake Chad Basin region in West de facto leader of the ISWAP, which Shekau presence of Boko Haram in the region. Africa, but also to the security threat posed refused to accept. Due to infighting, the On August 2, 2020, Boko Haram carried out by Boko Haram and the splinter groups in ISWAP split into two factions, al-Barnawi’s In Cameroon, Boko Haram has carried out an attack on a camp hosting 800 internally the region. The violence has forced more faction (ISWAP) and Shekau’s faction (Boko attacks in the Far North region. The Far displaced people (IDPs) in Cameroon’s Far than three million people to flee, 2,7 million Haram). It is estimated that the ISWAP North region, tucked between Nigeria’s North region. According to Cameroon’s are internally displaced in Northeast Nigeria, has approximately 3,500-5,000 fighters. Borno and Adamawa states and Lake Chad, Defence Ministry, at least 19 people, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, while 292,682 Shekau’s faction tends to focus on Borno, currently hosts 321,886 internally displaced including two suicide bombers, died and 16 Nigerian refugees fled into neighbouring Nigeria and its neighbours, Cameroon and people (IDPs) and 115,000 Nigerian others were injured in the terrorist group’s countries.

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International NEW DELHI TIMES Long road to Afghan settlement The Taliban representatives point to the historical experience of similar negotiations elsewhere to buttress that a ceasefire comes after and not before agreement on other substantive issues ceasefire should follow and not precede the By Himanshu Sharma ◆ successful conclusion of negotiations on the @_Himansh_ political road map and power sharing. The Taliban representatives point to the historical [email protected] experience of similar negotiations elsewhere to buttress that a ceasefire comes after and fghan peace was supposed to be a not before agreement on other substantive A tricky road laced with mines at every issues. bend. Now it is proving to be far more challenging than was ever expected. There Reaching a framework agreement or a are impediments at every step. The intra- political settlement has its own challenges. PC : Getty Images Afghan talks, supposed to commence on Consensus could elude on contentious March 10 under the February 29 Doha issues such as provisional power sharing, pose an ‘international’ security threat and promise.There are other problems also. The agreement between the US and the Afghan the Afghan Constitution and human rights, confront Western countries with a “new Taliban insists on not negotiating with the Taliban, is yet to take off even after five-and- demobilisation of the Taliban forces and wave of drugs”. Kabul Government. It reiterated recently, a-half month’s delay. their reintegration. There seems no middle “The Islamic Emirate does not recognise the ground between the Afghan Government’s The starting point was the prisoner-swap There are speculations that the Afghan Kabul administration as a government but intent to preserve the republican character of between Kabul Government and the Taliban Government may be deliberately delaying views it as [a] Western imported structure. the Constitution and the Taliban’s insistence which insisted that the commitment given the talks until the US Presidential election. We only accept negotiations that were on declaring Afghanistan an Emirate or under the Doha accord that the Afghan Kabul mulls to persuade Joe Biden (if he described in the historic Doha agreement … Sharia state. government will release 5,000 Taliban wins), to change course or that cover all parties to prisoners should first be implemented before at least slow down the US The Afghan Government has the Afghan conflict”. The Afghan imbroglio is exacerbated by the any intra-Afghan talks can begin. Ghani military withdrawal from already set a number of pre- terror-promoter fundamentalist regime like Afghanistan. However, Other issues are: a Government freed the detainees in several negotiations ‘redlines’ for Pakistan which nurtured the Taliban all Washington has already framework agreement, tranches but stopped short of releasing the the talks: a ‘humanitarian’ through its lean years for over a decade. last 320 dangerous deadly militants. Of announced that by a ‘comprehensive and It kept out liberal democracies like India ceasefire during or before course, under American pressure, Ghani election time American permanent ceasefire’ and from the ambit of negotiations while rank called a Loya Jirga to decide their release. troops in Afghanistan the talks, no compromise mutual mistrust. The Islamist countries like Pakistan ruled the would go down to less on the democratic and Afghan Government has roost. Jirga allowed prisoners release by August 8 than 5,000. human rights ‘gains’ made already set a number declaration, the Taliban got readied for talks in the past decades, and of pre-negotiations They incite the Taliban not to scale down from August 10 and conveyed it to the US Afghan President is ‘respect’ for the Republic’s ‘redlines’ for the talks: a from Emirate-like political structure, Sharia special representative Zalmay Khalilzad. making the European ‘humanitarian’ ceasefire et al. Expect more troubles in coming days Constitution. The inaugural meeting was to commence countries aware of the during or before the talks, as Pakistan and the Taliban conspire to in Doha virtually or in person on August 16 repercussions of the no compromise on the fritter away all the “gains” of democratic and Qatar sought Khalilzad’s attendance. release of hard-core Taliban fighters but democratic and human rights ‘gains’ made developments and women rights. Trust Plan was afoot to invite 22 states, mostly Trump is insistent on speedily bringing the in the past decades, and ‘respect’ for the Pakistan - the Islamic Republic - to spare virtually. Ghani demurred that freeing the bulk of the US troops home by the November Republic’s Constitution. On ceasefire, the no efforts to throw Afghanistan into the remaining 320 Taliban prisoners would election to deliver on his previous campaign Taliban insists that agreement on a permanent dungeon of a seventh century desert culture. Sino-Pak camaraderie: The 2020 version of Hindi-Chini bhai bhai? and properly through the UN Charter, commences. Qureshi has no locus standi to At the Galwan valley, India tested China’s ◆ By NDT Bureau relevant Security Council resolutions discuss India-China relations on Chinese courage and found it a paper tiger. Beijing @NewDelhiTimes and bilateral agreements.” Both talked of soil. Pakistan forcibly occupied Gilgit- backed off from Doklam prudently. China multilateralism, free trade and win-win Baltistan from India and ceded a part could not win against tiny Vietnam in 1979; [email protected] cooperation, and opposed “unilateralism, (Saksham valley) to China. During the 1962 Indian Army in 2020 will be tougher. A few protectionism and coercive practices”. Both war, China annexed Aksai Chin which is an days of aggressive posturing and the Chinese akistani Foreign Minister Qureshi agreed to strengthen cooperation on the integral part of India. envoy in Delhi pleaded for normalization! P visited China for the second China- Afghan issue and intra-Afghan negotiations. Faced with prospects of war, China backed Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Strategic China has been progressively munching off with a U-turn. Was it testing waters? Dialogue. The joint press release after Stung by Qureshi’s comments, Saudi Prince away the Indian Territory across Indo- the two-day long dialogue ending August 21, Salman didn’t meet visiting Chiefs of Tibet region for over last six decades and boasted having “reached consensus to Pakistani Army and the ISI. So, Qureshi’s is building infrastructures there. When collectively take measures to safeguard China trip acquires salience for Pakistan’s India is catching up now to lay roads within their common interests and promote peace, political and military leadership but the Line of Actual Control (LAC), China has prosperity, and development in the region.” mercurial FM exceeded his brief. To pacify objections. Developing connectivity within public opinion, post the OIC-Saudi goof-up own territory can’t be objected. China is Both reiterated the ‘China-Pakistan All- and to make Chinese masters happy, Qureshi refusing to vacate the occupied areas. On weather Strategic Cooperative Partnership’, blabbered that India’s “aggressive policy August 24, exasperated Indian Army Chief enhancing mutual strategic trust and against its neighbours is putting regional bemoaned that military solution remained cooperation, maintaining high-level peace and stability at stake.” He blamed that the only option now in Ladakh. exchanges, advancing the Belt and Road India’s constructions in Ladakh triggered the

Initiative, promoting bilateral relationship recent India-China conflict whereas China China-originated COVID-19 virus caused PC : Getty Images to a higher level, and delivering greater could not “remain oblivious to India’s illegal international outrage across the world. benefits to both countries. China restated constructions” and wished to resolve issues China usurped Tibet in 1959. Now the world Prime Minister Modi is correcting all the that “iron brother” Pakistan remains China’s through dialogue! wants China to vacate illegally occupied historic wrongs. All Indians stand by him, so “staunchest partner” in the region, while Tibet. Free Tibet campaign is gaining steam. do foreign powers - the US, Russia, Japan, Nitwits like Qureshi trying to be a Pakistan reaffirmed its support to China’s India can’t remain oblivious to China’s and South Korea, the UK, France, Germany, Spokesperson for China could create core interests and issues of major concern Pakistan’s illegal occupations. Australia and Vietnam. Pakistan should world-wide perception that China needs “like Taiwan, Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong handover POK and Gilgit-Baltistan. The Pakistan’s guidance and support to shape China has territorial disputes with all countries Kong”. The CPEC has entered a “new phase CPEC project is passing through disputed its foreign policy. Pakistan can’t handle the in the neighbourhood - Taiwan, the Philippines, of high-quality development” with energy Kashmiri territory. projects worth Rs. 13 billion. Baloch problem but pokes nose in India’s Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, India, Japan internal affairs. Trivial talks have reduced and Brunei. The habitual trouble maker is Now two aggressor states are ganging up China reiterated that “the Kashmir issue is a Pakistan to a global joke. Pakistan is now bullying and tormenting them all. Chinese across the Himalayan ridges. Three nations, dispute left over from history between India literally mortgaged to Chinese interests. Ambassador said India and China should two fronts, one goal! The year 2020 could and Pakistan, which is an objective fact, and Sino-Pak friendship will be tested severely resolve differences through communication as be the year of reckoning for the rogue states. that the dispute should be resolved peacefully when repayment of piling Chinese debt they pose no threat to each other! China must vacate Aksai Chin. www.NewDelhiTimes.com India’s only International Newspaper

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International NEW DELHI TIMES IRGC’s increasing sphere of influence in Iranian Intelligence activities opaque about the IRGC-IO’s organisation, ◆ By NDT Bureau exiled scholars and news organisations such @NewDelhiTimes as IranWire report that it was created with a number of divisions. [email protected] These divisions included a newly formed he Islamic Revolutionary Guard Cyber Defence Command, Khamenei’s T Corps (IRGC) was created in 1979, personal intelligence office - known as and it has grown to be the most powerful Department 101, the Internal Security segment of the ruling establishment. The Directorate - which had previously been the IRGC exercises considerable influences sole responsibility of the MOIS, the Security in Iran’s political, security, and economic Directorate of the Basij paramilitary force, structures and has also developed significant and other plainclothes and paramilitary intelligence activities. PC : Getty Images police units, such as the Sarollah Since its formation in 2009, the Islamic Headquarters of elite IRGC and Basij forces the IRGC contradicted Iran’s Intelligence view of what constitutes a danger has been Revolution Guard Corps - Intelligence tasked with confronting protests and civil Ministry on arrest of US-based terror effective in cowing political activists, but Organisation (IRGC-IO) has gained unrest within Tehran province. ringleader Jamshid Sharmahd. On August 1, has come at the expense of further eroding increasing dominance over the domestic Iranian official news agency IRNA quoted the system’s legitimacy in the eyes of the security sphere in Iran. Under the direct Crucially, the IRGC-IO leadership was Iran’s Intelligence Ministry as saying that majority of the public. control of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, made to report directly to the office of the it had arrested “the it has targeted officials, journalists, lawyers, Supreme Leader, meaning that it bypassed ringleader of a Furthermore, although activists, and dual nationals, severely The IRGC-IO’s expansive view of even the leadership of the IRGC. terrorist group known many of the cases undermining the policies and status of as Tondar which is what constitutes a danger has that it has instigated successive elected governments. based in the United been effective in cowing political against officials The steady accretion of power by the In doing so, it has encroached upon, and in States”, and that Iran activists, but has come at the and their families- IRGC-IO since its formation in 2009 has deliberately come at the expense of the many respects side-lined, the government’s has dealt a “heavy expense of further eroding the particularly in relation Ministry of Intelligence and Security and severe blow” to a to corruption - may government’s intelligence arm – the MOIS. (MOIS). A major reason behind the increase terrorist group based system’s legitimacy in the eyes well be rooted, in in IRGC-IO powers was the inability of in the US. of the majority of the public. fact the IRGC-IO Rouhani’s Minister of Intelligence, Seyyed the MOIS to contain the 2009 Iranian is widely seen as a Mahmoud Alavi, has attempted to push back uprising. The rivalry between the Rouhani On August 2, the IRGC linked newspaper tool of the regime to intimidate particular against the IRGC-IO’s more controversial administration’s Intelligence Ministry and Javan reported that he was arrested in political factions, including supporters of cases, and his failures have highlighted the the revolutionary guards’ IRGC Intelligence Tajikistan and was subsequently handed the current President, Hassan Rouhani, in government’s diminishing influence in the Organization was highlighted recently when over to Iran. The IRGC-IO’s expansive power since 2013. Although much remains domestic security sphere. Extra Terrestrials - Myth, Hoax or Reality? ◆ By Sujay Dhawan fact that these civilizations were much ahead of their time and still people have no exact Editor knowledge about how these civilizations @SujayDhawan vanished or got destroyed. Was it due to [email protected] famine, floods or a deadly virus like the one we are facing today, no one can comment. e live in a world where major chunk But some assistance they had for sure. W of the population does not have time to divest their innocent minds in Only the Egyptian civilizational remains learning something complex such as Extra have helped untie the knots. Every continent Terrestrials, Fermi Paradox, Drake Equation has some or the other structure like the or for that matter even what is outside our Pyramids of Egypt. The shape, design and planet. geometry used in Egypt’s pyramids are very complex and are still next to impossible Most of the people are so engrossed in to be built. With modern technology and making ends meet that they do not care if advancement of science, we are still clueless there are any aliens living among us or vice as what purpose these pyramids would serve. versa. They just want to feed For sure they are no myths and empty stomachs of their young What if aliens if they are not myths then the ones and see a smile on their idea of alien race helping in face at the end of the day. A are already building such mega structures farmer facing drought or flood sharing their is also not a myth. doesn’t care if he is saved by PC : Getty Images a human or an alien, what he technology with What if all these alien races cares about is whether he and governments were just a hoax? What if country? Alien race and the UFOs, if are Terrestrials, not because it will be exciting his family are alive and fed. this was used just as a cover hoax, then what is the reality? These are and hell of a hobby, but because it can really across the world? up? What if Area 51 in some pertinent questions which most of the help solve the current problems we are What if the Alien race was What if we are Groom Lake, Nevada, US, is Presidents or Prime Ministers of developed facing on our planet. If there is any alien just a myth all this long? May descendants of actually an air base for testing countries shy away from. Some day we will race dwelling on our planet or if they are be not, as we can see, human new modern technology for sure hear the truth and trust me that day in conversation with supreme authorities, race has evolved after several some alien race instead of the UFO base? is not far away. In this lifetime only, we then we must find them and ask them million years of evolution itself? What if aliens are already will encounter certain phenomena that are how to handle global warming, increasing because we were still evolving sharing their technology with beyond our comprehension. hurricanes and earthquakes, and how to at the time when Mohenjo-Daro, Harappan, governments across the world? What if we make this world compete for knowledge Egyptian civilizations were flourishing. are descendants of some alien race itself? It is the responsibility of a handful of people instead of food and money. Well, regardless Mayan, Inca and several other civilizations Why is it so that we only hear about aliens, enjoying the creamy layer, who are well to of the fact that they are among us or not, have been known to have some or the other UFOs, etc. landing or being seen in the USA do and have enough means and resources to these are some questions we must find special technology. We are well aware of the or the UK? Why not India, or some African research and search the truth about Extra – answers for as soon as possible.

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International NEW DELHI TIMES Russia willingness to cooperate with Huawei signifies that spat with US has expanded to the domain of technology The Russia-US spat has now expanded to the domain of technology. For Huawei, Russia provides an alternative to shrinking Western markets be it 5G or artificial intelligence, it would be ◆ By NDT Bureau bad for the country.” @NewDelhiTimes The announcement by Lavrov comes after [email protected] the US Department of Commerce issued updates to a list of rules designed to restrict ussian state-controlled media network Huawei’s access to U.S.-based technology R Sputnik News reported on August 23 following a similar decree announced in May. that Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov The US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced Russia’s willingness to work categorically stated, “As we have restricted together with China and with Huawei on 5G its access to U.S. technology, Huawei and its technology, in lieu of the US efforts to bar affiliates have worked through third parties foreign entities from cooperating with the to harness U.S. technology in a manner Chinese tech giant. As per Sputnik News, that undermines U.S. national security and foreign policy interests. This multi- “As we have restricted its access to U.S. pronged action demonstrates our continuing technology, Huawei and its affiliates commitment to impede Huawei’s ability to have worked through third parties to do so.” The Commerce Department also PC : Getty Images harness U.S. technology in a manner added 38 Huawei affiliates to its Entity List, that undermines U.S. national security which identifies foreign parties prohibited and foreign policy interests. This from receiving certain sensitive technologies multi-pronged action demonstrates on the Entity List in 2019. The Department digital economy. In June 2019, shortly after our continuing commitment to impede and allowed Huawei’s Temporary General of State has engaged in vigorous diplomacy the firm’s addition to a US Department of Huawei’s ability to do so.” License (TGL) to expire. for more than a year to share what we know Commerce trade blacklist, Russia along about Huawei and other untrustworthy with China made a high-profile push to Wilbur Ross, US Commerce Secretary The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo has vendors with allies and partners around the consolidate Huawei’s role in bilateral termed Huawei as “an arm of the Chinese world. The United States will continue to science, technology, and innovation (STI) co- Communist Party’s (CCP’s) surveillance restrict most U.S. exports to Huawei and operation. Visiting Russia in June 2019, during the “Territory of Meanings” forum, state”. In a press statement issued on its affiliates on the Entity List for activities Chinese President Xi Jinping condemned Lavrov insisted that Russia has no intention August 17, Pompeo stated, “We will not that threaten U.S. national security and Washington’s resort to “protectionism to “follow the example” of the United States tolerate efforts by the CCP to undermine international stability.” and unilateral approaches”. Russian “who simply demand not to cooperate the privacy of our citizens, our businesses’ President Vladimir Putin had accused on 5G with China and, in particular, with intellectual property, or the integrity of next- The Russia-US spat has thus now expanded the US of seeking to “not just edge out Huawei.” Instead, Lavrov explained, Russia generation networks worldwide. We are to the domain of technology. For Huawei, [Huawei] but unceremoniously push is interested in working together with other backing up our words with actions across Russia provides an alternative to shrinking [it] out of the global market” in what countries in order to jointly develop and the U.S. Government. The Department of Western markets. In March 2020, he described as “the coming digital implement modern technologies. Justice has indicted Huawei for stealing SberCloud, the cloud platform of Sberbank epoch’s first technological war”. The Lavrov also noted how Russian President U.S. technology, conspiracy, wire fraud, Group and Huawei had formed a strategic two Presidents presided over the signing Vladimir Putin mentioned on several bank fraud, racketeering, and helping Iran to partnership to provide cloud services for of a 5G development agreement between occasions that if Russia were to “lag behind in evade sanctions, amongst other charges. The Russian businesses, extending the reach Huawei and MTS, the Russian telecoms the development of advanced technologies, Department of Commerce placed Huawei of Russia’s largest bank into the country’s company. Sweden initiates ‘high readiness action’ in Baltic sea in ‘signal’ to Russia allayed similar concerns, “Russia, however, last few months, we found that they have than before. In addition, the coronavirus ◆ By NDT Bureau is carrying out its exercises in large scale, executed tailor-made operations, tested pandemic has caused global anxiety and @NewDelhiTimes which creates an unbalance in activities in long-range weapons systems in the region, uncertainty. Over all, the situation is more our region. The Russian Armed Forces are and executed training and exercises.” unstable and more difficult to predict. The [email protected] highly affected by the COVID-19 crisis. focus of the high readiness action is to In the first week of August 2020, the Russian reinforce naval surveillance in the Baltic n August 25, the Swedish Armed Navy conducted the Ocean Shield 2020 Sea, at sea and from the air. The military O Forces announced that a high readiness naval exercise in the Baltic Sea. More than presence in Gotland is also increased,” the action in the south-eastern and southern 30 ships of various classes, naval aviation, information further states. Baltic Sea, has been initiated due to the coastal troops, air defence and marines were current, extensive military activity in the involved in the exercises. Russia has been Jan Thörnqvist, the Swedish Armed Forces’ Baltic Sea region. This action is a response regularly foraying its naval and defence Commander of Joint Operations remarked, to the increasing military presence of Russia activities in the Baltic region. This was a “There is currently extensive military activity PC : Getty Images in the region. The Swedish Defence Minister primary reason behind Sweden increasing in the Baltic Sea, conducted by Russian as Peter Hultqvist told Sweden’s news agency Still, there is a substantial number of regular its defence spending as well as the defence well as Western players, on a scale the likes TT that the military deployment “is a way exercises carried out - the large snap exercise activities. In 2019, the Swedish Government of which have not been seen since the Cold of sending the signal, both to our partners in late March, paratroopers landing on Franz decided that it will increase defence War. The Armed Forces maintains constant and to the Russian side, that we stand up Josef’s Land and an air defence exercise in spending by 5 billion SEK (500 million U.S. preparedness, around the clock, year- for Swedish integrity and sovereignty”. In Crimea, just to mention a few examples. dollars) between 2022 and 2025. As per round. Continual assessments are made and all probability, this move was triggered by a information available on the official website activities are adapted to the current situation. Russian landing ship passing near Sweden’s In addition, there is an increased Russian of the Swedish Armed Forces (www. Some operations are carried out openly and strategic island of Gotland, as reported by naval and airforce presence and activity in forsvarsmakten.se), “these are times of some are not”. He further said that as per the the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. the Baltic sea, coinciding with the NATO unrest, global security is going through rapid Swedish Armed Forces’ assessment “the risk exercise BALTOPS 2020. This is routine changes and we are witnessing a deteriorated of a military attack on Sweden is currently On June 15, 2020, the Swedish Defence Russian procedure but the level of activity security situation in the vicinity of Sweden.” low, but the unpredictable security situation Minister Peter Hultqvist in his speech at the has increased compared to previous years… “To a large extent, the exercise activities are in our immediate area places high demands UK NATO Heads of Mission’s Forum had Summarizing the Russian activities over the more complex and have arisen more rapidly on our accessibility and preparedness.” www.NewDelhiTimes.com India’s only International Newspaper

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International NEW DELHI TIMES How Erdogan is misleading the Ummah by promising Caliphate in today’s world progressive ideology. Post 1950, Islamism asserting their Islamic motivations by side- The Islamists throughout the Muslim world ◆ By Mohmad Saleem Sheikh in Turkey began to show resurgence and lining the democratic values. By the third have sought to create such an ideal state. @NewDelhiTimes gradually asserted political space through term, the AKP party successfully convinced However, none could successfully establish the 1970s. In the 1990s, Islamism secured the Muslim majority the necessity to adopt a Caliphate. The Muslim world is mostly [email protected] the Islamic beliefs and lifestyle. To lure large separated on sectarian lines, and most number of people to believe in his ambitions, of them are in territorial wars with each rdogan’s Justice and Development Erdogan established many Islamic schools other. Many of the Muslim nations are not E Party’s 2002 political triumph marked and also made significant reforms in all politically stable to collaborate. Muslims the beginning of the implementation of a sectors of the society to incorporate Islamic from different parts of the world don’t program of unhurried and balanced change ethics. He further filled the crucial posts with connect with each other’s ideas due to the to transform Turkey. The Islamist rooted his supporters in the name of restructurings. long geographical distances and near absent party pushed the campaign of political The party drifted away from its traditional cultural ties. It is hard to bring all the Muslim reconfiguration by side-lining the guardian western partners and initiated ties with the community in the world under one umbrella. of secularism - the military and the security Muslim countries, especially Iran. Erdogan The Muslims that converted lately doesn’t apparatus, who had diluted democracy put forward his pan-Islamic views while have much knowledge of the Caliphate and through successive coups over six decades. establishing relations with the Muslim don’t emotionally relate to it. The strong The re-introduction of Islam in public life nations. Apart from the policy changes, he sense of nationalism and substantial cultural and the gradual resuscitation of the Ottoman repetitively advocated the Caliphate while differences, due to decades-long cultural memory in the public discourse tickles addressing the world Islamic community changes shaped by respective nations, also one to dwell into the paradox that whether PC : Getty Images (Ummah). contain Muslims from all over the world to Erdogan is imagining an Islamic State or come together. Various organisations like just brandishing nationalism to remain in political ground with electoral victories in With the increasing Islamic reforms in the ISIS and Al-Queda also announced their power for as long as he could wish. 1994 and 1996 with Necmettin Erbakan Turkey, inferences surrounded the future of intentions of forming a Caliphate but could In the month of July, a 1500-year-old becoming the first Islamist Prime Minister. Turkey and Erdogan’s intentions. Being a not succeed; rather, differences emerged monument, Hagia Sophia, was restored to However, the soft coup of 1997 once again secular nation for decades, would the people between the two groups. a mosque which was earlier converted into brought Kemalism to political fore-front. of Turkey accept the Islamic regime; and With all the obstacles and complexities, the a museum in 1930 by Ataturk. The move With the turn of the century, Islamism or does Erdogan genuinely intend to build a formation of a Caliphate is near impossible. cemented the belief that the Islamisation Islamists adopted more progressive and Caliphate, remain the prominent questions Erdogan, being a student of an Islamic process is aimed at creating Turkey as an accommodative outlook while advocating to be addressed. Especially, after Turkey’s school, is a strong believer of Islam and he Islamic power centre and therefore, an for the freedom to live a life guided by increasing engagement with Iran, a state has been highly influenced by the National Islamic State. Some have even argued that religion which is Islamically pure and at the that strongly supports the Caliphate, most outlook party which is known for its Islamic Erdogan’s campaign at its core is intended same time respecting secularism, pluralism of the world speculates that Erdogan truly stance. It could be speculated that the to change the secularist status-quo. Without and laciest culture. The first decade of rule wishes to build a Caliphate; and Turkey Erdogan’s socio-political transformations any conjecture, since Erdogan came to by Erdogan’s Justice and Development being a Muslim majority state would benefit are not intended to build a Caliphate but power, Islam has moved to the centre stage Party (2002-2013) viewed secular ideology, his intents. Yet, the creation of an Islamic to make Turkey an Islamic authoritarian and Turks have become more vocal about religious freedom and the Anglo-Saxon State in today’s world is not that simple. In nation. Certain transformations made by their Muslimness. Though Erdogan tries to model as the guiding principles for Turkey, principle, it may seem ideal, but to bring it to his party also exhibit Erdogan’s desire to connect to Muslims throughout the world, while successfully marginalising the practicality is equally complex. Though the continue being in power. His international but to say that he intends to create an Islamic Kemalists, the military and judiciary through world witnessed such acclaim from the ISIS, outlook is also to assert his influenc in the State would mean falling into simplifications certain Constitutional amendments. however, in what form it existed is debatable. region rather than to collaborate towards and narratives. The Islamic State has its complete political The third term of Erdogan’s rule is a model, cultural codes, legal structures and a formation of an Islamic State. A detailed Since 1923, when Turkey became a country, milestone in Islamisation of politics. The economic arrangement. In the first place, research on Erdogan’s ideas and strategies is the Islamic cultural code and its political AKP party, which initially appeared to carry the concept of the modern nation-state; much required to explain the events further. model were side-lined and subdued. democratic principles along with Islamic territorial limits; and the rise of nationalism *Mohmad Saleem Sheikh Kemalism was fostered as a national and ambitions to gain people’s support, started limits the possibility of such a creation. Phd Fellow, JMI. UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) awards £3million Electric-Drive Contract to NP Aerospace technology partner. Developed by Magtec in ◆ By NDT Bureau the UK, the hybrid electric e-drive solution @NewDelhiTimes for Foxhound and Jackal is intended to deliver multiple technical and operational [email protected] enhancements, including but not limited to Silent mobility; Enhanced Silent Watch P Aerospace has been awarded a capabilities; Off-board electrical power; and N £3million contract by the UK Ministry Increased onboard power for the insertion of PC : Getty Images of Defence (MoD) to demonstrate hybrid the latest technologies. electric-drive systems on Foxhound and to improve our vehicles sustainability and programme delivers safety, efficiency military effectiveness. and innovation activities across a variety Jackal vehicles, with the project being Alongside delivering multiple technical and of vehicle platforms, via a collaborative delivered in collaboration with General operational enhancements, the introduction of approach. Dynamics Land Systems-UK, Supacat and hybrid technology will ultimately reduce the Lt. General Richard Nugee said, “It is great Magtec. Army’s reliance on fossil fuels - a step towards to see the Army testing electric vehicles the Government’s 2050 net zero goal. that will benefit not only our world-class The hybrid electric drive project is a As per information on the website of NP personnel, but also our planet. This goes to significant development that will further Aerospace, the contract award is a part Defence Minister, Jeremy Quin, said, “It is show how seriously we are incorporating extend the technical capabilities of the of the Protected Mobility Engineering & vital our armoured vehicles are equipped sustainability into our operations, while vehicles and is an important advancement Technical Support (PMETS) programme with the latest technology so we can maintain simultaneously pushing the boundaries of in the incorporation of new technology. It which is being led by NP Aerospace as the our battle-winning edge. These tests will military innovation.” will provide a greater understanding of what Engineering Authority for the vehicle fleet. ensure our Armed Forces have the latest, hybrid technology could achieve, whilst also General Dynamics Land Systems-UK and safest and most efficient technology, while David Petheram, Chief Operating Officer, looking to the future in terms of integrating Supacat are the partner vehicle of OEMs, continuing to support prosperity across the NP Aerospace, said, “The Protected Mobility additional sophisticated electronics across and Magtec is the electric drive and battery UK. They represent a potential opportunity Engineering & Technical Support (PMETS) the PMETS vehicle fleet.”

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International NEW DELHI TIMES Russia offers support to Lukashenko as crackdown on protestors continue in Belarus Belarus authorities have dealt with the protestors with a heavy hand and have attracted the condemnation of the crackdown on protestors by the European Union and the United States Putin’s statement comes against the ports in the EU Member State of Lithuania. ◆ By NDT Bureau backdrop of ongoing protests in Belarus “They got fat and forgot what Belarus is. @NewDelhiTimes after the Presidential election witnessed And thought we could be frightened off with Alexander Lukashenko re-elected for a sixth rockets and tanks,” Belta state news agency [email protected] term with over 80 percent of the vote, while quoted him as saying. “Well let’s see who the opposition has insisted that Svetlana is afraid of whom. We’ll show them what n an interview given to Russian State Tikhanovskaya, an opposition candidate, sanctions are.” I Television (Rossiya 1TV), the Russian won the election. Belarus authorities have President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia An earlier Declaration by the High dealt with the protestors with a heavy hand was ready to send police to Belarus if protests Representative on behalf of the European and have attracted the condemnation of the there turn violent but at present no such Union on the Presidential elections in crackdown on protestors by the European need appears. Putin said that Lukashenko Belarus was heavily critical of Belarusian Union and the United State. has asked him to prepare a Russian law State authorities deploying disproportionate enforcement contingent to deploy in Belarus On August 28, EU Foreign Ministers agreed force and the intensification of the PC : Getty Images if necessary. “There is no need to hide crackdown on freedoms of assembly, media on punitive sanctions against Belarus. In his opposition activists for questioning and anything. There are relevant articles that say and expression. Even Serbia, which is remarks High Representative Josep Borrell dozens of others to appear in court. that all Member States of the organisations... stated: “There was political agreement considered closer to Russia, has condemned should provide each other with assistance among Ministers to designate selected the crackdown on Belarusian protestors. Lukashenko refuses to budge and has said and protection of sovereignty, external individuals responsible for the fraudulent Serbia’s Prime Minister, Ana Brnabic, the activists who have been protesting for borders and protection of stability. In this elections in Belarus and for the subsequent said that Belgrade signed up with the EU more than two weeks are under the control regard, we have obligations to Belarus, crackdown under the existing Belarus resolution on Belarus in order to align the of Western nations.In an interview to and Alexander Grigorievich Lukashenko sanctions regime. These designations shall Balkan country’s policies with those of the Belarus’ state news agency Belta on August 27, raised the question that he would like us to include individuals at the high political level. bloc it formally wants to join. Lukashenko said that he had the support provide him with appropriate assistance, if Now, the detailed list and the respective of the majority of citizens of Belarus. “The necessary. I said that Russia will fulfil all its legal acts will be prepared by the competent rallies in support of peace, tranquillity and obligations”, he stressed. Council Working Groups in the coming days Belarus continues the crackdown on the incumbent President have already been with a view to be adopted [by the Council] protestors. On August 26, police dispersed attended by about 3 million people. This a Putin said he and Lukashenko have agreed as soon as possible”. protesters who gathered on the central great force - 3 million people”, Lukashenko that “there is no such need now, and I hope square in Minsk, waving their red-and-white remarked. According to the Belarusian there won’t be”. “We have agreed not to use Reacting to these developments, Alexander flags and chanting “Go away!” to push for President, his supporters are “calmer” it until the situation starts spinning out of Lukashenko threatened to cut off European Lukashenko’s resignation. Officers grabbed and include “veterans, retired people and control and extremist elements acting under transit routes across his country if sanctions demonstrators and dragged them into trucks, professionals.” the cover of political slogans cross certain are imposed. Lukashenko said he would tearing away their flags and placards. A borders and engage in banditry and start block European neighbours from shipping court had earlier sentenced opposition “That is how we would have the number of burning cars, houses and banks or take over goods to Russia over Belarusian territory, leader Sergei Dylevsky to a 10-day jail people who voted for us, the 80 percent,” administrative buildings,” he said. and divert exports now shipped through sentence, while authorities summoned other Lukashenko further remarked. US Army seeks replacement Japan PM Shinzo Abe says he’s for Heavy Expanded Mobility resigning for health reasons apan’s longest-serving Prime Minister, J Shinzo Abe, said that he is stepping Tactical Truck down because a chronic health problem ◆ By NDT Bureau has resurfaced. He told reporters that it was “gut wrenching” to leave many of his goals @NewDelhiTimes unfinished. [email protected] Abe has had ulcerative colitis since he was a teenager and has said the condition was Photo AP PC : he U.S. Army has issued a request for controlled with treatment. Concerns about stay on as prime minister when I’m no T information to determine potential his health began this summer and grew this longer capable of living up to the people’s sources of heavy tactical trucks that could month when he visited a Tokyo hospital expectations with confidence,” Abe said at a perform semi-autonomous and autonomous two weeks in a row for unspecified health news conference. In a country once known transportation missions. checkups. He is now on a new treatment for its short-tenured prime ministers, the that requires IV injections, he said. While departure marks the end of an unusual era of The latest attempt at securing a replacement there is some improvement, there is no stability that saw the Japanese leader strike up for the HEMTT took form in July 2020 with guarantee that it will cure his condition and strong ties with U.S. President Donald Trump the publication of a request for information so he decided to step down after treatment, even as Abe’s ultra-nationalism riled the (RFI) by the Program Executive Office he said. Koreas and China. While he pulled Japan out for Combat Support and Combat Service of recession, the economy has been battered “It is gut wrenching to have to leave my job Support (PEO CS&CSS) for the Next anew by the coronavirus pandemic, and Abe before accomplishing my goals,” Abe said, Generation Future Truck (NGFT), which Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck, M915 has failed to achieve his cherished goal of mentioning his failure to resolve the issue was renamed as the Common Tactical Truck truck tractor and Palletized Load System formally rewriting the U.S.-drafted pacifist of Japanese abducted years ago by North (CTT). fleets. constitution because of poor public support. Korea, a territorial dispute with Russia Five variants are planned for the NGFT, The first Oshkosh Heavy Expanded Mobility and a revision of Japan’s war-renouncing “The coronavirus’s impact on the economy including a tanker configuration with a Tactical Truck (HEMTT) was delivered to constitution. was a blow to Abe, who was stuck at home 2,500-gallon fuel capacity and a “wrecker” the US Army in 1982. Various replacement He said his health problem was under and lacking an opportunity to make any variant to recover and evacuate tactical efforts including the highly anticipated control until earlier this year but was found achievement or show off his friendship with wheeled vehicles that are over 40 tons. Future Tactical Truck System (FTTS) of to have worsened in June when he had an Trump, and was pushed into a corner,” said 2003 have come and gone over the years, annual checkup. “Faced with the illness Koichi Nakano, an international politics The Army is looking to replace some yet as of August 2020 HEMTTs remain in and treatment, as well as the pain of lacking professor at Sophia University in Tokyo. heavy wheeled vehicle models in its Heavy production at Oshkosh’s Wisconsin facility. physical strength ... I decided I should not Credit : Associated Press (AP) www.NewDelhiTimes.com India’s only International Newspaper

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International NEW DELHI TIMES Defense Innovation Unit Thales looks to (DIU) of US Department of further develop its Defense (DOD) announces small Unmanned Aircraft Digital Crew System Systems (sUAS) contractors ◆ By NDT Bureau ◆ By NDT Bureau @NewDelhiTimes @NewDelhiTimes [email protected] [email protected] hales has introduced artificial intelligence T (AI) and machine learning (ML) he Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), technologies into legacy armoured vehicle T a US Department of Defense (DOD) sensor and optics systems, with its Digital organization that accelerates commercial Crew system. Programme officials at Thales technology for national defence, announced have been working on the Digital Crew the availability of five U.S.-manufactured concept over the last several years in response drone configurations to provide trusted, to the massive inflow of data to armoured secure small Unmanned Aircraft Systems vehicle crews from the ever-increasing number (sUAS) options to the U.S. Government. of integrated sensors and cameras on vehicles. According to a US DOD press release “A modern army vehicle can easily have dated August 20, the announcement is the 2,000 cameras on it or more ... [and] it is culmination of an 18-month effort with absolutely impossible for a crew member to the DIU’s initial work supporting the U.S. consume that video and make use of it,” said Army’s Short-Range Reconnaissance (SRR) Willie Alexander, Technical Director of the program of record for sUAS. The SRR Optronics Business Directorate at Thales, UK. program is developing an inexpensive, “So, what the [British] military realised, about rucksack-portable, vertical take-off and four to five years ago, was the need to access landing small unmanned aircraft that the technology that would easily train [AI] provides the small unit with a rapidly- on it,” said Michael Kratsios, Acting tailored to mission needs.” The DIU seeks algorithms to recognise the content of a video deployed situational awareness tool. Undersecretary of Defense for Research and to build upon the success of the Blue sUAS stream. We realised that all that information was being collected ... [and] can now be Both SRR and Blue sUAS comply with Engineering. effort by leveraging best in class commercial potentially available” through AI-enhanced Section 848 of the National Defense innovation on a regular cadence that ensures smart optics capabilities in the Digital Crew Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 that He added, “Blue sUAS showcases how we sustained technological dominance against programme, Alexander said on July 9. prohibits operating or procuring unmanned can both work with small, non-traditional our nation’s adversaries. aircraft systems manufactured in China. The companies and our allies and partners to five companies whose products will be made quickly pilot cutting-edge technologies that “We need an alternative to Chinese-made available for purchase on the GSA schedule support our mutual defense.” small drones and Blue sUAS is a first step in by September 2020 include Altavian, Parrot, achieving that objective.” said Mike Brown, Skydio, Teal, and Vantage Robotics. Ellen Lord, Under Secretary of Defense Director of the Defense Innovation Unit. for Acquisition and Sustainment, added: “Blue sUAS represents a tremendous first “Blue sUAS is a great example of DOD “Working across DOD and the U.S. acquisition reform by lowering the barrier Government aggregates the business

step toward building a robust and trusted PC : Getty Images UAS domestic industrial base that ensures to entry for non-traditional companies to opportunity for these five vendors and sustained delivery of highly-capable, rapidly iterate shoulder to shoulder with enhances the long-term viability of this The bulk of the ongoing work within the secure UAS to the warfighters that depend warfighters to deliver highly-capable sUAS capability for the U.S. and our allies.” Digital Crew programme is still in the test and evaluation phase and is slated for field demonstrations as part of the UK’s US Army awards contract to GM Defense for “Army Warfighting Experiment” slated for September, Alexander said. “Some of the mature algorithms are going to find their production of new Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV) way into the British Army ... so we are enhanced by a custom occupant and cargo assisted power steering. ◆ By NDT Bureau beginning to see the bleeding edge” of this superstructure and features 70 percent technology, he added. @NewDelhiTimes commercial-off-the-shelf high-performance “Winning this Army award is well- components, including parts developed deserved recognition for the hard work and “Everything in [military] optics, until now, [email protected] and tested by Chevrolet Performance dedication of our GM Defense team and has been to support the human brain doing engineering. Powering the ISV is a 2.8L their production of a fantastic vehicle. We the analysis,” said Amyas Godfrey, Head of he US Army has awarded General Duramax diesel engine with a performance are confident the GMD ISV will meet and Thales External Communications for Land T Motors (GM) Defense a $214.3 tune that produces significantly more exceed all of our customers’ requirements,” and Air Systems. “What we have done now million contract to produce the service’s power than the Colorado ZR2 known for David Albritton, President of GM Defense, is introduce a system and software that is new Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV). As per delivering 186 horsepower and 369 lb-ft of said in a statement. doing that analysis and interpretation, and information by GM Defense, the Infantry torque. The ISV demonstrates the flexibility sort of tapping the [soldier] on the shoulder, Squad Vehicle (ISV) is a fully-integrated and durability of a proven system adapted “It’s indeed an honor to leverage our parent saying ‘I’ve got a T-72 tank approaching platform that leverages decades of GM’s to robust military requirements. The ISV company’s experience as one of the world’s from the east’. It has already figured it out engineering, manufacturing and quality adapts market-leading advanced automotive largest automotive manufacturers to design, and is giving you priorities. ... That is the expertise at scale. technologies to help operators maintain an build and deliver the best technologies step change,” he added. overmatch advantage against adversaries. available to the men and women of the U.S. Digital Crew is designed for continuous Armed Forces and our allies. observation of digital imaging streams. The The ISV’s Multimatic Dynamic Suspensions software application not only uses pattern Spool Valve (DSSV) dampers use precision Our ISV entry is a fully-integrated platform recognition to identify people and objects spool valve technology for maximum that leverages decades of GM’s engineering, but also has the ability to learn. It can predictability, accuracy and repeatability, manufacturing and quality expertise at scale simultaneously monitor numerous feeds from minimizing jolts to passengers and to provide the most cost-efficient, reliable any digital source - CCTV, a digital imaging delivering the ultimate in wheel and vehicle and effective answer possible to meet and camera, a smartphone or a digital periscope. control. Underbody skid plates protect the exceed the Army’s demanding requirements The software uses convolutional neural

PC : Getty Images front suspension, engine, transfer case, We’re very proud of the opportunity to move networks, which mimic the way the human fuel tank, rear differential and rear shock forward in this competition and continue our brain learns, to build up a library or database The ISV is based on the award-winning mount. Advanced software and calibration development of a vehicle that will enable of images it can recognise. It is provided with Chevrolet Colorado midsize truck ensure optimal performance for the engine, Army units to move around the battlefield an initial database of objects (or persons) architecture and its ZR2 and ZR2 Bison transmission, transfer case, locking front with greater ease and reliability”. Albritton of interest as a starting point and examines variants. The underlying architecture is and rear differentials and electronically further stated. images pixel by pixel to search for patterns.

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International NEW DELHI TIMES Putin/Lukashenko: Two sides US Marine Corps selects of same misgovernance coin XM914 turret for MADIS of a peaceful, democratic Russia that is a partner, not an adversary, of the West. ◆ By David Kilgour Navalny opposed the war with Ukraine, air defence program Author & Lawyer arguing that Putin’s overriding motive wasn’t concern for compatriots, but fear of the ◆ By NDT Bureau contagion of anti-authoritarian revolution. @NewDelhiTimes By exposing the hypocrisy of the Kremlin’s emocracy is under attack in some anti-Western propagandists, Navalny [email protected] D countries, but recent events in Russia reflects Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei and Belarus provide lessons for accountable Sakharov’s insight regarding the connection he US Marine Corps (USMC) has governance globally. between respect for human rights and T selected Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace’s Protector XM914 remote While Aleksei Navalny, 44, Russia’s best- international peace. If a democratic Russia weapon station (RWS) as the turret for known democracy and anti-corruption ever emerges from Putinism, Navalny will its Marine Air Defense Integrated Future advocate, recently struggled for life in a coma undoubtedly be honoured as its prophet. Weapons System (MADIS) air defence from poison in a Siberian hospital, President Putin’s counterpart in Belarus since 1994 is program. Vladimir Putin followed his ongoing President Alexander Lukashenko, re-elected pair, the MADIS Mk1 and Mk2. The practice-refusing to voice the opposition on August 9 in an election which many have The Marine Air Defense Integrated System MADIS Mk1 is responsible for primarily leader’s name. He threatens Putin’s regime denounced as fraudulent. (MADIS) is the Marine Corps’ new push for neutralizing fixed and rotary-wing aircraft. because he stands for a peaceful, democratic modernizing its Ground Based Air Defense The Mk2 fulfils the Counter-Unmanned Russia and is principled, selfless, courageous To achieve his landslide win, Lukashenko (GBAD) capabilities by providing increased Aircraft System (C-UAS) mission, while and charismatic. manipulated the Parliament elected in 2019 with not one opposition member. One capability and lethality to meet evolving and also providing radar and C2 for the pair. observer of the 2019 election declared, “I future threats. It is a part of the Corps plan The Marine corps also has the Light MADIS will never forget the fear I saw in the eyes of to upgrade their two active Low Altitude Air (LMADIS), which hosts the radar and EW our interlocutors.” Defense (LAAD) battalions, which currently rely on dismounted Stinger missiles and suite on a Polaris MRZR. The LMADIS The results drove more than 200,000 radar equipment transported in two M1114 served as a testbed and interim C-UAS Belarusians into the streets of Minsk HMMWVs per section. solution before the fielding of the MADIS in protest. However, for protesting and Mk1 and Mk2. The LMADIS is still in requesting new elections, they’re now being The MADIS system relies on two vehicles operational use with Marine Corps LAAD detained and tortured. per section working in a complementary battalions. Lukashenko’s forces locked protesters and journalists in the Red Church. Food supplies UK Ministry of Defence issues tender European political leaders reacted promptly from Poland to aid Belarusians were to Navalny’s critical situation, especially blocked. Two of the Executive Directors of for an Interim Combined Arms Virtual when local officials tried to obstruct his opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya’s evacuation to Germany. newly formed Coordination Council have Trainer (Deployable) (ICAVS(D)) A blogger, Navalny has deployed myriad been jailed. Opponents have been fired from internet projects to discredit Putin’s use of their jobs and replaced. television stations he seized for propaganda Tikhanovskaya, now exiled in Lithuania purposes from 2000 on. In 2007, Navalny declared, “We’re not the opposition sought to build a pro-democracy coalition of anymore. We’re the majority now.” liberals and nationalists. Vowing to “stand till the end” in protests Historian Robert Horvath notes that Navalny over the disputed election and subsequent exposed the methods used by corrupt officials violence, she told the BBC that if the protest “to embezzle billions of dollars from state- movement stepped back now, Belarusians controlled corporations”. He challenged would be “slaves”. Russia’s authoritarian system and its heavily Democracies around the world must manipulated elections to legitimize Putin’s encourage Lukashenko to show respect for rule. His proposal to vote for anyone but human dignity and peaceful demonstrations; Putin’s Edinaya Rossiya (ER) party in the free all political prisoners; cease torture for 2011 elections exposed massive electoral detainees and cease criminal proceedings fraud and precipitated huge protests. against members of the Co-ordination The ICAVS(D) will contribute to the Council; provide a new free and fair election ◆ By NDT Bureau preparation of land environment (LE) force Navalny and his Foundation for the Struggle with local and international observers; and @NewDelhiTimes elements (FEs) force preparation through against Corruption (FBK) has kept a create a new Central Election Committee provision of exercise design which will YouTube spotlight on offshore assets and the [email protected] (CDC). provide specific unit exercise scenarios that kleptocrats’ lifestyles. One in 2017 on the are pre-scripted and reflect the collective palaces, estates and yachts of then-premier Some feel that Putin favours a new election he UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) training objectives (CTOs) for each service/ Dmitry Medvedev was viewed 35 million in Belarus because he’s tired of Lukashenko. issued an invitation to tender (ITT) T arm. times and caused nationwide protests. Nobel literary Laureate Svetlana Alexievich in August for an Interim Combined Arms says, “Perhaps the world will help us, so that Virtual Trainer (Deployable) (ICAVS(D)). In 2013, released from jail to compete Lukashenko starts talking to us. For now, The ICAVS(D) capability will provide in Moscow’s mayoral election, Navalny, he’s only talking to Putin, so perhaps Putin As per the ITT, ICAVS(D) will be used to exercises at unit locations, or agreed despite smearing by the Kremlin-aligned will help us.” provide teams and junior Commanders with alternatives, that is the UK, Cyprus, media, won 27% of the vote. His Presidential Brunei. At its core, ICAVS(D) capability Democratic government for Russians and a simple, effective computer-based training ambitions were thwarted by his 2013 will provide exercises at unit locations, or Belarusians meanwhile remains over the environment that will enable them to carry criminal conviction on fabricated charges, agreed alternatives, through the provision of horizon. out tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) but he’s used his national network of activists and command and control (C2), patrolling, training delivery of virtual simulated training to promote a strategy of “intelligent voting”- David Kilgour, a lawyer by profession, counter-IED, ISTAR management and utilising CTO and Commanding Officer’s voting for candidates with the best chance served in Canada’s House of Commons for exploitation and mission planning training direction. After action review (AAR) will of defeating the ruling party. One notable almost 27 years. In Jean Chretien’s Cabinet, in a realistic virtual environment. provide the facility to deliver a debrief to the success in the 2019 regional elections was in he was secretary of state (Africa and Latin training audiences, which will be presented Khabarovsk - now a hotbed of anti-Kremlin America) and secretary of state (Asia- It will support a range of environments, by the unit chain of command with support protest. Pacific). He is the author of several books equipment and mission types by being from the service provider. The core shall and co-author with David Matas of “Bloody flexible in its scenario generation and consist of a number of events (circa 100), The world, says Horvath, should recognize Harvest: The Killing of Falun Gong for content integration, exploiting the MOD with the scope to extend to add additional Navalny as the embodiment of the possibility Their Organs.” corporate simulation data where practicable. training needs in relation to the events. www.NewDelhiTimes.com India’s only International Newspaper

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THIS DAY | THAT YEAR | NEW DELHI TIMES August 31, 1939 A decision by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany, that kick started the Second World War, to invade the neighbouring country of Poland was taken on this day that year.

September 1, 1976 Terrible droughts in Yorkshire caused local reservoirs to reach their lowest levels in decades and threw the county into total disarray on this day that year.

September 2, 1958

The United Kingdom performed a total of three nuclear tests on Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, using one of the bombs nicknamed as ‘Short Granite’ by the British Army, on this day that year.

September 3, 1939

After their decision to invade Poland just two days earlier, Britain and France declared war with Nazi Germany thus starting the Second World War in earnest on this day that year.

September 4, 1888 Inventor George Eastman patented the world’s very first roll- film camera which was registered as “Kodak” back then, on this day that year. PC : Getty Images

September 5, 1997 Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who dedicated her entire life to the sick and the poor, at the age of 87, died on this day that year. PC : Getty Images

September 6, 1972 Nine Israeli Olympians and a German policeman were killed by the Palestinian “Black September” terrorist group at the ‘72 Olympics on this day that year.

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Delhi/NCR NEW DELHI TIMES What Delhi Metro travel will look like in COVID-19 era? Here are some of the safety measures the staff ◆ By NDT Bureau and the commuters will have to abide by- @NewDelhiTimes • In order to ensure contactless travel, no [email protected] tokens will be issued, only smart cards and automatic top-up will be made available. S hut since March 22, in view of the coronavirus pandemic, the Delhi Metro • Passengers arriving at metro stations will services are likely to resume as part of be thermally screened by CISF staff who Unlock 4, which will begin the next month. will also check whether the passengers have Aaogya Setu app on their phones. The fourth phase of the ongoing process to open up economic activities in India • Modified hand-held metal detectors will be after months of lockdown will begin from used by the security staff to check passengers September 1, the guidelines for which will from a distance. be issued sometime this week, the Union Home Ministry officials said. • Number of passengers in a train will be limited to 300-350 and only alternate seats While Delhi Metro Rail Corporation will be used. and the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) have said that they are ready to • Passengers will be mandated to wear a face resume operations once directed by the mask throughout their journey. government, travelling in the Delhi Metro is definitely going to be a new experience in • Air Conditioners inside the trains will be the COVID-19 era. set at 26 degrees Celsius. PC : Getty Images “What Delhi did yesterday, Seven-day spell in Delhi produced Delhi Government America does today”, ready to deal with says Arvind Kejriwal on enough wastewater to meet 13% “Delhi Model” of battling any flood-like COVID-19 of city’s daily water demand situation as water

◆ By NDT Bureau ◆ By NDT Bureau level of Yamuna rises @NewDelhiTimes @NewDelhiTimes ◆ By NDT Bureau [email protected] [email protected] @NewDelhiTimes [email protected] laiming that the United States, taking n analysis by the Centre for Science C a cue from the “Delhi Model” of A and Environment, an environmental he government in the National Capital battling COVID-19, adopted the model of think tank, highlighting the need potential T has said that it is ready to deal with convalescent plasma therapy for treatment for groundwater recharge, has found that

PC : Getty Images any flood-like situation, if arises, as the of critically-ill COVID-19 patients, Delhi a week-long spell of rain in the National water level of the Yamuna river in Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on August 24, Capital that happened between August 13 “The volume of rainwater generated in the rose closer to the danger mark after the said what Delhi did yesterday, America does and August 19, produced wastewater that past week, calculated by multiplying the area Hathnikund Barrage at Yamunanagar in today. is enough to meet nearly 13 per cent of the by the rainfall received and the co-efficient Haryana released water. city’s daily demand of water. of the rainwater run-off, was almost 13% of “They used to say back in the day - what the city’s total daily water demand. This was America does today, India would do As per the analysis, in those seven days, the estimated taking into account 18.8 million tomorrow. Delhi has changed it. Now - what capital city received nearly 118.4 millimetres population of Delhi (according to the 2011 Delhi did yesterday, America does today. of rainfall which is 143 per cent more than census) and 1,483 square kilometres area,” Congratulations Delhiites for achieving this the average and can produce around 87,000 explained Sushmita Sengupta, Programme for our country,” read a tweet by Arvind million litres of water. Manager (water programme), CSE. Kejriwal. Weekly markets in the National Capital reopen on a trial basis to coronavirus-induced lockdown, reopened ◆ By NDT Bureau on a trial basis. @NewDelhiTimes

The move came after the Aam Aadmi Party PC : Getty Images [email protected] led government in the capital city allowed the weekly markets to resume functions “We have a flood-control system ready on a trial basis till August 30. One such and it will be activated when the situation market that reopened after Delhi Disaster demands,” said Delhi Water and Health Management Authority (DDMA) had on Minister Satyendra Jain. August 21 gave its nod to weekly markets to

PC : Getty Images open on a trial basis from August 24-30, is An official of the Irrigation and Flood Gandhi Nagar Market in East Delhi. Control Department informed that water The statement by the Delhi government came at the rate of 7,418 cubic metre per second after the US Food and Drug Administration Having given its nod to weekly markets (cusec) was being released into Yamuna, (FDA) gave emergency authorisation for to reopen after months now, DDMA has following which the water level was the use of blood plasma to treat COVID-19 also directed the concerned authorities to recorded at 204 metre at 10 am August 25 patients, saying the treatment outweighed ensure strict implementation of COVID-19 which is quite close to the warning level of any potential risks. measures, including social distancing. 204.50 metre. PC : Getty Images It must be noted that Delhi was the first While the move brought happiness to Also, on August 24, 5,883 cusec of water to seek permission for trials of the plasma eginning August 24, the weekly customers and shopkeepers, the government was released from the Hathinikund Barrage therapy and also the first to open a plasma B markets in the National Capital that officials consider it a tough task to ensure in Yamunanagar district, which led to a rise bank in India. have been shut since last week of March due social distancing in the market. in the water level in the river. www.NewDelhiTimes.com India’s only International Newspaper

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National NEW DELHI TIMES Social Media Report on Religious Matters Party of India (SDPI), the political outfit of ◆ By NDT Bureau the PFI, also welcomed the Bombay High @NewDelhiTimes Court judgment. The All India Majlis-e- Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM), an Indian [email protected] regional political party based in the Indian state of Telangana, shared a social media scrutiny of Indian social media for the post by its President Asaduddin Owaisi A past week reveals issues pertaining to which mentioned that the Indian media religious matters were prominently trending. scapegoated Tablighi Jamaat to protect This article aims to examine such trends. the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) First, many radical Muslim organisations in government for its inadequate handling of India were found to be supportive of Palestine the pandemic. Owaisi also wrote that as a and critical of Israel. The Popular Front of result of this propaganda, Muslims across India (PFI), an extremist and militant Islamic India faced heinous hate crimes and violence fundamentalist organisation in India, called across India. Third, the Indian radical Muslim on the international community to condemn organisations were found to be highly critical the bombing by Israel in the Gaza Strip and of the Supreme Court of India with respect called for ‘strongest action’ to protect the to the case against Prashant Bhushan. The humanitarian situation of the Palestinian Jamaat-e-Islami Hind wrote on its social people. Posters calling for the same were media account that the creditability of the released by PFI in English, Hindi and Urdu. Supreme Court was fast eroding and this The Campus Front of India (CFI), a student was once again manifested in its handling organisation often accused of promoting of the Prashant Bhushan case. The CFI fundamentalism in college campuses, released an image of Prashant Bhushan with tweeted a poster with the banner: “Palestine a caption “Truth Prevails Over System”. The must resist: Resist Israel”. Second, many Welfare Party of India showed solidarity by many for giving provocative speeches without any scrutiny. Many Twitter handles, Indian radical Muslim organisations with Prashant Bhushan and wrote that “truth prior to the Delhi riots was invited to the which are ideologically inclined to right- welcomed the judgment of the Bombay will prevail and falsehood with perish for in book’s launch. wing Indian politics, accused Bloomsbury of double standards on freedom of expression. High Court related to the Tablighi Jamaat. the end, falsehood is bound to perish”. On August 22, 2020, Bloomsbury withdrew The Bombay High Court quashed three FIRs from publishing it. On August 23, 2020, Fifth, the ‘#Stop Conversion Killings’ was against 35 petitioners – 29 of them foreign Fourth, the soon to be released book ‘Delhi publishing house Garuda Prakashan said a prominent trend. Many Twitter handles nationals – who attended a Tablighi Jamaat Riots 2020: The Untold Story’ was trending that they would be publishing the book. shared the news of Hindu Sadhu Saravanan congregation in Delhi’s Nizamuddin in on social media. The book is authored by Kapil Misra tweeted that a legal action committing suicide in Tamil Nadu after being March and travelled from there to different Monika Arora, Sonali Chitalkar, and Prerna against Bloomsbury. Many twitter accounts beaten up by a Christian police officer. Many parts of India. The PFI welcomed the Malhotra. The book was originally published also pointed out that Bloomsbury had earlier twitter users also highlighted how Christian judgment and wrote that Tablighi Jamaat was by Bloomsbury India. The controversy published the book ‘Shaheen Bagh From a missionaries were luring poor Hindus with made the scapegoat. The Social Democratic started because Kapil Misra, who is blamed Protest to a Movement’ by Ziya Us Salam money to convert them to Christianity. 3Cs will guide strategic partnership India’s first general aviation between India and ASEAN countries, terminal for private jets all set to says Union Minister Piyush Goyal begin operations at IGI Airport PC : Getty Images

a unique opportunity to India to showcase ◆ By NDT Bureau will be operationalised “as and when the itself as the trusted partner of the world. ◆ By NDT Bureau @NewDelhiTimes He further extended a hand of friendship government gives its approval”, said an and partnership to the ASEAN region so @NewDelhiTimes official at the Delhi Airport. [email protected] that both of them are able to work together, [email protected] Two senior government officials stated succeed, secure future and achieve a target uring his address to the ASEAN- that the facility was ready for use in terms of $300 billion trade. D India Business Council virtual meet he first general aviation terminal for of infrastructure and other facilities but is on August 27, Union Commerce and T private jets in the country that came awaiting some security clearances from the Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said that He described partnership with ASEAN up last month at Indira Gandhi International Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS). 3Cs - Cooperation, Collaboration and as deep, calling them as valuable partners Airport in the National Capital is all set to Commitment, will help guide the strategic and partners in progress. Both the partners begin operations. It is waiting for the security Designed to ensure faster turnaround of partnership between India and ASEAN have not been able to harness the full trade nod before it can become operational, said business jets and chartered planes, the countries. potential due to various reasons, but now is sources. facility would shield them from the clutter the time to address concerns of all nations of general passenger terminals, where they Adding further, the Union Minister said and businesses, resolve the differences and It was tentatively due to be inaugurated currently compete for taxiing slots with that the coronavirus pandemic has provided open matrix to expand trade. on July 24 and is now complete, but commercial flights.

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Neighbourhood NEW DELHI TIMES Pakistan sees Taliban as buffer to India AIIB approves US$250 loan for in future Afghanistan, experts say Bangladesh for s Afghanistan’s warring sides prepare A to hold long-awaited negotiations next fighting COVID-19 week to establish peace, Pakistan is trying to push the Taliban to come to the table in pandemic a move that experts say is an attempt by Islamabad to increase its influence in post- ◆ By NDT Bureau war Afghanistan and counter its rival India. @NewDelhiTimes Pakistan, however, claims that it is [email protected] only facilitating the peace process in its neighbour to the west and that it is up to the he Asian Infrastructure Investment Afghans to decide their future. The claim T Bank (AIIB) has approved a USD250 has been received with suspicion by Afghan million loan to Bangladesh as the country officials given Islamabad’s history of alleged grapples with the fallout from the novel interference in the country and support for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). the Taliban. According to information on the AIIB Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood PC : Getty Images website, the loan, financed with the Asian Qureshi met with a group of Taliban Afzal told VOA that having a friendly However, Pakistan has rejected those Development Bank (ADB), is part of a representatives in Islamabad to discuss the government on its western border is accusations, saying it has suffered human program to provide the Government of latest efforts to begin talks between the “crucially important” for Pakistan, adding and financial losses in the war against terror Bangladesh with budget support to mitigate group and the Afghan government. It comes “an Islamist government ... will be more groups crossing Afghan borders. the adverse effects of the pandemic on as negotiations between the two sides have friendly towards Pakistan than it would be the country’s poor and most vulnerable, been hampered by a dispute over a prisoner towards India.” Ashley Tellis, a senior fellow with the particularly those affected by job losses swap and rising violence. Carnegie Endowment for International in small and medium enterprises and the Pakistan was the main supporter of the Peace in Washington, said Pakistan at this informal sector, as well as strengthen social Following the meeting with the Taliban team, Taliban during the Afghan civil war in the point considers the Taliban an instrument to safety nets. The program also has specific Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry in a statement 1990s. It was one of only three countries control Afghanistan’s choices with respect targets to support women in export-oriented said Qureshi emphasized the importance of a that recognized the Taliban as the legitimate to “whom it allies with and whom it partners industries. peace settlement in Afghanistan for regional government of Afghanistan from 1996 until with.” stability and “highlighted the importance 2001. Bangladesh is extremely vulnerable to the of Pakistan-Afghanistan ties based on “Pakistan gives the Taliban leadership COVID-19 virus given that it has one of the amity, shared history and geography, and Afghan and Western officials have sanctuary in Pakistan, and it has become highest population densities in the world. reaffirmed Pakistan’s abiding solidarity with charged Pakistan, particularly its military an advocate for the Taliban’s peace the brotherly people of Afghanistan.” establishment, of supporting and sheltering process,” Tellis said, adding that Pakistan’s the Taliban since the group’s collapse in contribution at the operational level has been Pakistani officials have repeatedly said that 2001. insignificant, as the Taliban have enough they do not care who rules in Kabul as long resources of their own. as there is peace in Afghanistan. Despite The U.S. Defense Department in a report the publicly announced position, Pakistan released in May said that Pakistan harbors He charged that Pakistan hopes Taliban actually wants the Taliban to “emerge in Taliban militants, including the Haqqani control or a significant presence in the new some sort of position” by having a stake network, which can plan and conduct attacks government in Kabul could help Islamabad in the future power-sharing arrangement, inside Afghanistan. It said that Islamabad’s “to keep the Indians at bay.” according to Madiha Afzal, a nonresident strategic objective was to “mitigate spillover fellow at the Brookings Institution. of instability into its territory.” Credit : Voice of America (VOA) Sri Lanka Parliament approves the PC : Getty Images

formation of six Committees Nearly 15 percent of households continue to live in poverty, with a high share of ◆ By NDT Bureau households living in informal settlements, @NewDelhiTimes and more than 80 percent of the workforce employed in the informal sector, all of which [email protected] make it difficult and expensive to maintain social distancing measures to contain the he Sri Lankan Parliament has given spread of the virus. T its approval to the proposal made by the Speaker of Parliament Mahinda According to ADB estimates, a serious Yapa Abeywardena, to appoint MPs for six outbreak would result in job losses ranging committees as its members, from 1.4 to 3.7 million.

According to a Parliament press release, “Our support to Bangladesh is part of the Legislative Standing Committee will AIIB’s broader proactive efforts to respond consist of 17 Members. It will be officially to the needs of our vulnerable members to chaired by the Deputy Speaker, the Deputy PC : Getty Images weather the COVID-19 crisis,” said AIIB Chairperson of the Committee, and 15 other Committee will consist of 15 members Committee on Public Petitions will consist Vice President, Investment Operations, D.J. members to be nominated by the Committee to serve in the first session of the Ninth of 23 members. Its chairman will also Pandian. of Selection, the statement read. Parliament and will be chaired by the be appointed by its members at the first Pandian noted that Bangladesh had in recent Speaker, the press release said. meeting, the statement said. The Committee on Standing Orders of years performed exceedingly well with Parliament shall consist of 12 members. The The Committee on Ethics and Privileges The Backbencher Committee shall consist of annual growth averaging 7.4 percent over Committee will be chaired by the Speaker to be appointed to serve in the first Session the Chief Government Whip, the Chief the last five years. “It is incumbent on the and consists of the Deputy Speaker, the of the Ninth Parliament will consist of 16 Opposition Whip, eight Backbenchers international community to come together Deputy Chairperson of the Committee, Members to be nominated by the Committee from the Government, and eight to ensure that the country does not fall and nine other members to be nominated of Selection. Its chairman will be nominated Backbenchers from the Opposition, it behind but continues to make strides in its by the Committee of Selection. The House by the members at the first meeting. The added. development efforts.” www.NewDelhiTimes.com India’s only International Newspaper

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North America NEW DELHI TIMES US Army outlines objectives for next iteration of Integrated Tactical Network (ITN) advantages for increased throughput and ◆ By NDT Bureau to reduced latency but I think one of the @NewDelhiTimes things we need to keep fundamental is the unique environment the Military and [email protected] our Army operates in,” he said. Given the austere terrain the US armed forces may find rmy Brigadier General Robert Collins, themselves in future operations, “we really A Program Executive Officer for cannot afford to rely on [cellular] towers and Command, Control and Communications- relay stations and relay points” inherent in Tactical (PEO C3T) has outlined the 5G network communication, he added. objectives for the next iteration of the US Army’s Integrated Tactical Network (ITN). Incorporation of 5G mobile networking The ITN is a concept that incorporates the technologies and low Earth orbit (LEO) Army’s current tactical network environment satellite capabilities into the US Army (applications, devices, gateways, and operations are expected to dominate network transport) with commercial off-the- development work on the service’s next shelf components and transport capabilities iteration of the US Army’s ITN. to enable communications in disconnected, intermittent, and limited bandwidth “We anticipate at that time, a lot of the environments. [LEO] investments we have made there will be available and also the opportunity The ITN is comprised of an integrated set to incorporate 5G,” into advanced of Leader Radios with advanced networking army communication and networking waveforms, gateways, Link-16 radios, PC : Getty Images technologies, as part of the ITN development small aperture satellite terminals, servers, and experimentation during Capability Set 25, is [think] how can we take and best employ leaning heavily on academia and industry applications and associated ancillary Brigadier General Collins said during a some of this technology, how do we link it to close those loopholes. The integration devices. These commercial components and microelectronics symposium sponsored by into our current [network] environment and and usability challenges facing Army’s ITN current network systems offer commanders the Defense Advanced Research Projects make sure that it is mobile ... [and] how do developers falls squarely on 5G mobile multipath communications diversity and Agency (DARPA). we secure some of the end points associated networking initiatives. will interoperate with current network with the technology,” Brigadier General systems. The ITN aligns with the Army’s “One of the things we are going to have to do Collins said, noting service leaders will be “On 5G, I think it does offer some significant Unified Network Transport Level of Effort. Mexico to donate El Salvador Supreme Court ruling Guatemala says 8 clears the reopening of all businesses minors of 60 deported Mexican-made were COVID-positive amid the coronavirus outbreak ventilators to 8 uatemala’s Health Ministry said that G eight minors out of 60 on a deportation countries flight from the United States tested positive for COVID-19 after their arrival. exico is not only making its own M ventilators now to treat COVID-19 The ministry said that the teenagers were patients, it announced that it will donate the placed with child welfare authorities for machines to other countries. treatment or observation. The foreign relations department said the Mexican ventilators would go to nations around the Caribbean. PC : Getty Images PC : AP Photo AP PC : PC : Getty Images The flight was carrying minors aged 11 to 17 They include Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, usinesses in El Salvador are operating Following the announcement of the reopening, B without restrictions for the first time public transit companies said they will and landed in Guatemala City after taking Guyana, Haiti, Santa Lucía, Suriname, off from Alexandria, Louisiana. the Dominican Republic and Trinidad and in nearly six months, since measures were operate at between 50 to 80 per cent of their Tobago. Another 51 machines are also now put in place to curtail the spread of the services. Ministry spokeswoman Julia Barrera said being donated to 14 states in Mexico. coronavirus. five boys aged 13 to 17 and three 17-year- The reopening will not include public and old girls were found to be infected, despite The ventilators finished tests and were The total reopening is the result of the private schools and universities because in previous U.S. promises to increase health announced ready for use earlier this month. Salvadoran Supreme Court of Justice person classes are suspended. monitoring for migrants before deporting Mexico began developing the model in ruling a government decree regulating the them. April, when it was buying ventilators abroad, reopening in five stages was unconstitutional, The airport will restart operations for mainly from China and the United States. concluding it was a decision left to the connecting international flights on Earlier this year Guatemala suspended Legislative Assembly. September 4 and flights to and from El deportation flights from the U.S. for nearly Mexico continues to have a high case Salvador on September 19. a month after at least 186 people tested load, but says hospitals currently have a Still, without the government oversight, positive for COVID-19 upon their return El Salvador has reported more than 24,800 safe margin of ventilator availability for businesses and people are urged to act even after U.S. assurances that they were coronavirus cases and more than 660 deaths. domestic patients. responsibly and continue to try and contain healthy. Credit : Associated Press (AP) the spread of the virus. Credit : Voice of America (VOA) Credit : Associated Press (AP)

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Africa NEW DELHI TIMES Ceasefire in Libya unlikely to resolve the crisis It is estimated that since January 2020, Libya has lost at least $8bn as a result of Haftar’s oil blockade. Oil and natural gas revenues represent almost 90 percent of the Government’s revenue backed by Turkey - a bitter rival of Egypt January 2020, Libya has lost at least $8bn ◆ By NDT Bureau and the UAE in a broader regional struggle. as a result of Haftar’s oil blockade. Oil and @NewDelhiTimes natural gas revenues represent almost 90 On August 21, Libya’s U.N.-supported percent of the Government’s revenue. [email protected] government announced a cease-fire across the oil-rich country and called for The United Nations has welcomed the he internationally-backed Government demilitarizing the strategic city of Sirte in an ceasefire. The UN Spokesman Stephane T of National Accord (GNA) and initiative supported by the rival Parliament Dujarric said that the Secretary-General Haftar’s self-described Libyan National in the East. Fayez al Sarraj, the Prme hoped that “a ceasefire will be respected Army (LNA) militias are the two major Minister of Libya’s UN-backed Government immediately by armed forces from both warring factions in Libya. Based in the of National Accord (GNA), and Aguila sides and that its implementation will be capital city of Tripoli, the GNA is led by Saleh, the Speaker of a rival Tobruk based taken up quickly within the United Nations- Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj and controls Parliament in eastern Libya, agreed to a UN facilitated 5+5 Joint Military Commission. parts of the country’s west. plan to pull military forces away from Sirte He also welcomes the call for an end to the and the eastern oil crescent. Fayez Sarraj blockage of oil production”. General Hafter is supported by said that an effective cease-fire requires “the Egypt, the United Arab Emirates demilitarization of Sirte and Jurfa areas, and However, prospects for resolving the Libyan PC : Getty Images and Russia. Forces loyal to the that police forces from the two sides agree crisis remains fragile as the LNA that government in Tripoli are backed on security arrangements there.” proclaims loyalty to Khalifa Hafter dismissed “This initiative is meant to cover up their by Turkey - a bitter rival of Egypt the cease-fire proposal by the U.N.-supported true intentions in Libya,” he said, referring and the UAE in a broader regional Aguila Saleh, Speaker of the rival eastern- government as a “deception,” claiming that to Turkey and Qatar, the main backers of the struggle. based House of Representatives, said, rival militias were preparing to attack the U.N.-supported government in the capital, “A cease-fire blocks the way for foreign strategic city of Sirte. Tripoli. Hafter’s forces are allied with the The Benghazi-based Libya National Army military interventions and ends with the rival Parliament in eastern Libya. (LNA), a force of some twenty-five thousand expulsion of mercenaries and dissolving the Ahmed al-Mosmari, a Spokesman for fighters, is led by Khalifa Haftar, a former militias in order to achieve comprehensive Hafter’s forces, told a televised news Al-Mosmari, further said any cease-fire General. General Hafter is supported by national sovereignty”. Sirte is a key city conference that the proposal “represents requires Turkish-backed forces to pull back Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Russia. because proximity to the oil fields makes nothing but throwing dust in eyes and from the front line “to provide room for Forces loyal to the government in Tripoli are it a strategic asset. It is estimated that since deceiving the local and international public.” negotiations and a political solution.” Is Mali emerging as the latest battleground between the West and Russia? The Malian military called for a political transformation in the country leading to general elections, announcement of the closure of borders and imposition of curfews and the Prime Minister, Boubou Cissé, cautioned the junta leaders to stay true to the US Sahel envoy J. Peter Pham said. An ◆ By NDT Bureau were justified by years of bad governance, their pledge to cede control. ECOWAS delegation to Mali led by former @NewDelhiTimes corruption, nepotism and a deteriorating Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan security situation. He remarked, “Political said that they were permitted to speak with [email protected] The United Nations, the African Union, the patronage, the family management of European Union and many others in the President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. Jonathan state affairs, have ended up killing any said, the Economic Community of West ali has been marred by conflict and international community have condemned opportunity for development in what little African States delegation and the junta M instability for many years as the country Keita’s overthrow. The UN called for the remains of this beautiful country”. The agreed on a number of issues and they asked has been mired in months of protests led by “constitutional and democratic order” to coup and the subsequent transition of power the military officers to look over some of the the main opposition party June 5 Movement be restored as soon as possible across Mali, seems to enjoy considerable support of issues they did not agree on. over an economic crisis, corruption and following the military coup, and reiterated the masses. This was manifested when on President Keita’s failure to quell an eight- a call to respect the rule of law, and refrain August 21, thousands gathered in Mali’s Junta Spokesman, Colonel-Major Ismael year-old Islamic insurgency that has gained from violence. The EU has said that it will capital Bamako in a raucous show of support Wague said, the ECOWAS leaders gave a foothold in central Mali. Anger also be suspending its security training missions for the military junta. their view on the makeup of a transition brewed over the results of 31 Legislative in Mali. The EU missions in Mali have been “put temporarily on hold because the government, but he said the final architecture races held in April that remain in dispute. On of the transition will be decided by Malians. August 18, 2020, mutinous soldiers arrested circumstances didn’t allow them to continue their normal activity,” EU Foreign Policy Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and It is expected that the CNSP will develop Chief Josep Borrell said after meeting Prime Minister Boubou Cissé. President closer ties with Russia. Malian media has with Defence Ministers from the bloc’s 27 Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on the same day, reported that the junta leaders, who forced member countries. after he was arrested by mutinous soldiers President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to step following months of political turmoil in the down, were in Russia on a training program West African nation, resigned. The Malian Borrell said that “we don’t train the armies to organized by Russian Armed Forces ahead military called for a political transformation be putschists”. The Economic Community of of the military coup. Colonel Malick Diaw in the country leading to general elections, West African States (ECOWAS) suspended and Sadio Camara, believed to be the chief announcement of the closure of borders and Mali from the regional body following the architects of the August 18 coup d’etat, imposition of curfews. military coup and asked all its members spent a year in Russia at the Higher Military PC : Getty Images to close land and air borders to Mali. West College in Moscow. Colonel Assimi Goita was appointed Head African mediators with the ECOWAS of the National Committee for the Salvation The junta leaders have promised to hold suspended talks with Mali’s military junta Closer relations with Russia are likely to of the People (Comité national pour le salut elections within nine months. “This gives after failing to reach an agreement on who receive popular support in Mali. Russian du peuple: CNSP), which was created by an assurance that they’re not here to remain will lead the volatile country in a transition Ambassador Igor Gromyko was one of the the rebels (military junta) who ousted the in power,” said Yeah Samake, a leader of back to democracy. The United States has first envoys to be received by the CNSP. Constitutional Government of Mali. In the Malian opposition coalition known as suspended cooperation with Mali’s military Gromyko’s early meeting with the CNSP an address to the nation the next day after the Movement of June 5-Reassembly of in response to the overthrow of the President. indicates that Mali’s military leaders have Keita’s resignation, Colonel-Major Ismaël Patriotic Forces (M5-RFP). The opposition “Let me say categorically there is no further likely discussed Russian assistance, both Wague, a Spokesman for the military junta leader said he considers the coup “a turning training or support of Malian armed forces in the security and financial spheres. Mali that organised the coup, said that the arrests point from corruption, from ill governance, full-stop. We have halted everything until could thus emerge as the latest theatre of of the President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, to a more efficient leadership,” but he such time as we can clarify the situation,” conflict between Russia and the West. www.NewDelhiTimes.com India’s only International Newspaper

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South America NEW DELHI TIMES Human Rights AP finds Brazil’s Watch: Venezuela plan to protect using COVID-19 Amazon has to crack down opposite effect enezuelan security forces and authorities n May, facing urgent international V under President Nicolás Maduro have demands for action after a string of used the coronavirus as an excuse to crack I massive wildfires in the Amazon, Brazilian down on dissenting voices on social media President Jair Bolsonaro put the army in and even in private messages, Human Rights charge of protecting the rainforest.

Watch reported. Photo AP PC : Instead, The Associated Press has found, the The New York-based rights group said dismiss critics of its human rights record as 65-year-old human rights lawyer arrested in operation dubbed as “Green Brazil 2” has had Venezuelan authorities have targeted dozens outside interests led by the United States mid-April after a Facebook post critical of the opposite effect. Under military command, of journalists, healthcare workers, human interfering in the nation’s internal affairs. how migrants returning to Venezuela were Brazil’s once-effective but recently declining rights lawyers and political opponents held in quarantine centers. investigation and prosecution of rainforest critical of the government’s response to the Venezuela was in an economic and political destruction by ranchers, farmers and miners pandemic. crisis before the pandemic. Maduro has Over the two days he was in custody, police come under heightened international handcuffed him for two hours under the sun has come to a virtual halt, even as this year’s Some critics have been physically abused pressure to step down since early 2019, to a metal tube 2 feet off the ground, Human burning season picks up. to levels bordering on torture, the group when U.S.-backed opposition leader Juan Rights Watch said, adding that he was denied The Brazilian army appears to be focusing said in a report listing 162 such cases from Guaidó mounted a challenge, claiming a bathroom for 26 hours. on dozens of small road-and-bridge-building March through June. Human Rights Watch the socialist leader illegitimately clings to projects that allow exports to flow faster to says it verified several complaints through Virgüez was charged with public disturbance, power following a fraudulent election. ports and ease access to protected areas, interviews with alleged victims, while also contempt, defamation of authorities and opening the rainforest to further exploitation. citing reports by Venezuelan media and Maduro’s government instituted emergency instigation of rebellion. He remains under In the meantime, there have been no major human rights advocates. measures in mid-March shortly after house arrest, allowed to leave his home only raids against illegal activity since Bolsonaro Venezuela’s first coronavirus cases were for medical visits, Human Rights Watch “In Venezuela today, you can’t even share required military approval for them in May, diagnosed, closing many businesses, says. a private message criticizing the Maduro according to public officials, reporting from limiting travel inside the country and government via WhatsApp without fear Hospital worker Andrea Sayago in April the area and interviews with nine current and grounding commercial air travel. of being prosecuted,” said José Miguel sent colleagues a warning on the WhatsApp former members of Brazil’s environmental Vivanco, Americas director at Human Officials so far have reported roughly 350 messaging service of their first coronavirus enforcement agency. Rights Watch. coronavirus deaths and 42,000 illnesses, cases. Photos of test results she sent ended up but medical workers and government critics on social media and hospital administrators “The state of emergency has emboldened say that is an undercount due to the lack of forced her to resign, saying her message security forces and armed pro-government testing. constituted “terrorism,” the human rights groups that already have a record of torture group reported. and extrajudicial killings to crack down even Human Rights Watch said Maduro’s more harshly on Venezuelans,” Vivanco government often evokes an “overly Venezuela’s intelligence police later said. broad” anti-hate law approved in 2017 as questioned her for several hours, and she’s an instrument for its crackdown, which been charged with misuse of privileged

Venezuela’s Ministry of Communications Photo AP PC : is enforced by a judicial system lacking did not immediately respond to an email information and put under house arrest independence from Maduro. from The Associated Press seeking pending trial, Human Rights Watch said. The AP also found that: comment. Authorities loyal to Maduro often The group cited the case of Iván Virgüez, a Credit : Associated Press (AP) — The number of fines issued for environmental crimes has been cut by Colombia turns to emergency almost half since four years ago, especially under Bolsonaro. ventilators to treat COVID-19 — Two high-ranking officials from IBAMA, how quickly we can get these machines to 500,000 cases since the pandemic began, the environmental agency, say they have hospitals.” with approximately 3.5% requiring stopped using satellite maps to locate hospitalization in intensive-care units. deforestation sites and fine their owners The Herons haven’t yet received full approval __ a once-widely used technique. IBAMA from Colombian regulators, who insist they President Ivan Duque’s administration must first be tested successfully on at least officials spoke on condition of anonymity has created new intensive-care units and because they were not authorized to talk to 100 patients. But a new law allows doctors purchased more than 6,300 ventilators PC : AP Photo AP PC : the press. to use the Herons if their hospital has run out since April, mostly from China at a cost of of conventional machines and they have the about $22,000 each, according to the Health — IBAMA is no longer penalizing the heads he machine called the Heron looks consent of patients or their relatives. Ministry. of big networks of illegal logging, mining T like many other ventilators used to and farming, according to two other officials. That situation recently played out at treat COVID-19 patients. There’s a screen But less than half of those ventilators have Meat packers who sell beef from deforested Bogota’s Cardioinfantil Foundation, a atop a metallic box that displays the amount arrived and been installed in hospitals, the areas now operate freely, according to three private clinic whose 55 intensive-care beds of oxygen being pumped into a person’s ministry says, even as the number of people IBAMA officials. have been fully occupied, or close to that, lungs and a plastic tube that delivers it to the needing them climbs. patient. throughout August. The order putting the military in charge of fighting deforestation was initially due to Dr. Fabio Varon, a pneumologist, said he In the capital city of Bogota, ICU units But this device costs about $4,000 - a fifth end in June, but it was recently extended used the Heron this month on a 50-year-old are currently 77% full according to the of the price of ventilators imported from by Bolsonaro until November despite COVID-19 patient with severe lung damage. municipal government. In remote regions China - and it’s made in Colombia, where widespread criticism that it is making the The hospital had run out of conventional with fewer hospital beds, the situation is some hospitals have been overwhelmed by problem worse. coronavirus patients. ventilators when the man was carried into more difficult. ICU occupancy reached the emergency room. 100% in July and August in the jungle states At stake is the fate of the forest itself, and Engineers hope the recently begun of Choco and Caqueta, forcing hospitals hopes of limiting global warming. Experts emergency deployment of the ventilators “With his relatives’ permission, we hooked there to fly patients with severe lung damage say blazes and deforestation are pushing the could save hundreds of lives and make up the patient (to a Heron) for three days” to faraway cities. world’s largest rainforest toward a tipping Colombia a pioneer in low-cost equipment Varon said. “The ventilator didn’t give us any point, after which it will cease to generate for COVID-19 patients. trouble, and the patient is now recovering.” As in other nations facing similar problems, enough rainfall to sustain itself. About that has set off a race to build local ventilators Colombia is in a critical stage of the two-thirds of the forest would then begin “It’s not just the price that’s important” said that are reliable, cost-efficient and can be pandemic, with officials recording around an irreversible, decades-long decline into Julian Echeverry, a mechanical engineering quickly produced. professor at Bogota’s La Sabana University 8,000 new cases and 300 deaths each tropical savanna. who helped to design the Heron, “but day. The country has reported more than Credit : Associated Press (AP) Credit : Associated Press (AP)

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Opinion NEW DELHI TIMES Trump wants return of UN Iran sanctions The UNSC vote highlighted the division between Washington and its European allies since Trump’s withdrawal from the nuclear accord in 2018. All the Europeans on the Council abstained off the “half alive” deal with major powers. European allies have been sceptical of terrorism and aggression threaten the peace ◆ By NDT Bureau “The United States failed in this conspiracy Washington’s capacity to enforce sanctions, of the region and the entire world. Instead @NewDelhiTimes with humiliation. This day will go down in of opposing weapons sales, the Security the history of our Iran and in the history of Council is encouraging them,” he said. The [email protected] fighting global arrogance,” he said. “In the embargo on conventional arms is due to 75 years of United Nations history, America expire on October 18, under the terms of a he US has submitted a resolution before has never been so isolated,” Iranian Foreign resolution that blessed the Iran nuclear deal, T the UN Security Council to extend Ministry Spokesman tweeted. known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Iranian arms embargo. On August 14, the Action (JCPOA). Security Council overwhelmingly rejected By snapback Trump referred to the Iran- the resolution. The next day, on August 15, contested argument that the US still remains United States President Donald Trump Allowing sanctions on Iran to expire could a “participant” in the 2015 Iran nuclear unsettle the Middle East. Since Trump pulled vowed to use snapback - a controversial deal despite Trump’s withdrawal from it so technique to unilaterally reinstate the UN out of the JCPOA and slapped unilateral that it can force a return to sanctions if Iran sanctions on Iran, Tehran has taken escalatory sanctions on Tehran. “We’ll be doing a violates its terms. snapback,” Trump said adding “You’ll be steps away from compliance with the accord but asks for sanctions relief. watching it next week.” The move has huge People on the streets of Tehran viewed it as repercussions for the Iran nuclear deal. an American political game, one day giving a resolution to the Security Council, and the The United States, its European allies, Russia The voting was weird as only two members, next day saying they have taken Iranian fuel. and China signed the deal with Iran. Europe the US and just another country, the Many felt that Iran “should interact with PC : Getty Images now supports Iran to preserve the JCPOA while Dominican Republic, out of the Council’s the United States and establish relations.” America wants the 13-year-long conventional 15 members voted in favour of the US ‘Snapback’ threatens to plunge the Council with experts commenting that a “snapback” arms embargo to continue. The US’ August 14 resolution seeking to extend the embargo, into crisis. threatens to plunge the Council into one of text at the Security Council pressed for an while two others, Russia and China, its worst-ever diplomatic crises. Putin had indefinite extension of the embargo on Iran. opposed and rest 11 members abstained. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said appealed to China, France, Britain, the US, Expiry threatens stability in the Middle East. This highlighted the division between that the United States would maintain Germany and Iran to convene an emergency Washington and its European allies since pressure. “It is unfortunate that the French video summit to avoid an escalation of Iran claims the right to self-defence and Trump’s withdrawal from the nuclear accord and the United Kingdom didn’t support tensions in the Gulf. Trump said that he that a continuation of the ban would imply in 2018. All the Europeans on the Council what the Gulf States have demanded, what would “probably not” take part in the an end to the agreement. “The result shows abstained. America could secure the support the Israelis have demanded. I regret that summit proposed by Putin on addressing again that unilateralism enjoys no support, of only one country. deeply,” he rued. “The United States is the situation. He asked to wait until the and bullying will fail,” China’s UN mission determined to make sure that the Iranians November election. tweeted. Having China on its side, Iran does Iran mocked the Trump administration for and their theocratic regime does not have not care anymore about the USA sanctions. lack-lustre performance. Iranian President the capacity to inflict even more harm on the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu denounced But Arab nations are rallying under Israel. Rouhani argued that the US has failed to kill world,” Pompeo reiterated. the UN vote as “scandalous”. “Iranian Iran should beware! Madrassa Education System- Time for a change? Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: “A believer is never satiated with gainful knowledge; he goes acquiring it till his death and entry into Paradise.” (Tirmidhi) the Madrassa education system. The Sword ◆ By NDT Bureau verse (9:5) talks about violence against @NewDelhiTimes pagans. Any radical organisation can quote this verse and those with little understanding [email protected] of the Quran will believe it and may proceed on the path of violence against every non- s per Islamic teachings, ‘ilm’ (knowledge) believer. A is not only confined to the acquisition of knowledge, but also embraces socio-political However, the next verse (9:6) talks about and moral aspects. Knowledge is not mere granting asylum to pagans and providing information; it requires the believers to act safety to them. Only a learned Islamic upon the knowledge acquired and commit scholar can explain that the Sword verse themselves to the goals for the betterment relates to a specific event in Islamic history of the society. Madrassa is a place where a when pagans broke a covenant with Arabic majority of poor Muslim children come to Muslims. learn Islamic principles and the Quran. The verse immediately preceding (9:4) Madrassa provides free education to the and following (9:6) the Sword verse (9:5) poor children and are dependent on the makes it very clear. Only those pagans who donations by able Muslims. Parents of these broke the covenant were subjected to violent Madrassa going students are generally very repercussions and any pagan who honoured poor and illiterate but deeply religious. They the covenant or repented their betrayal were seldom care about the quality and content of to be spared and provided safe heavens. the curriculum as long as their wards keep learning the Quran. To add salt to the injury, Numerous examples like this highlight the the teachers/aalims of these Madrassas PC : Getty Images are itself a product of the same Madrassa need to reform the Madrassa education education system. start believing in supremacy of Islam but amongst the students as a natural outcome. system. What India needs is a learned force fail to justify the same. The aalims always of educated Madrassa graduates who can The Rot: talks about the glorious days of Islam but Impact: help build a developed Indian society and never mentions about its failures during later not a force which can be swayed easily by During their education at Madrassa, the periods. Khilafat system is presented as a This section of society becomes easy target radical organisations against India’s interest. students learn to read the Quran and other perfect form of governance but nobody will of radical organisations who can manipulate Islamic literature. However, it’s a rot learning touch the rot within the Khilafah during the their understanding of Islam to suit their As Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once said, “A system in which students memorise but Umayyads, Abbasids and Osmani Khilafah. extremist needs. The Sword verse is a man’s mind, stretched by new ideas, may seldom understand the content. They slowly A supremacist feeling usually develop classic example to showcase the rot within never return to its original dimensions.” www.NewDelhiTimes.com India’s only International Newspaper

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Think - Tanks NEW DELHI TIMES When Challenges equal Success Human beings are the only creatures in the world given the gifts of brains and the ability to think, it, on our parts, becomes important to learn from every mistake we did so that we don’t make the same ones again ◆ By Dr. Pramila It is just the times that have changed given slight change in our perspective and our Srivastava human beings and their desires for luxuries attitude can lead to great changes. Being an Life, being a perfect affair of @PramilaBK being constant. With the changing times and integral part to our lives, these tough and the best and the worse, needs the technology been advanced, the thirst difficult times not only make us increase our to be valued in its every aspect [email protected] for materialistic happiness has only risen expertise in dealing with them but also build because it opportune us to live up accordingly and not shed away. The in us the confidence to let them not shed hy is it always that human beings and love the world which is successes, in this way, have led us celebrate away our dreams and successes. Sometimes, W question the worse happening in their the best in all possible worlds the glory but the failures on the other hand, these challenges become unbearable when lives? Why is it they always forget to value have made us question the very foundation the odds are against us but going against around. the good things happening to them? Why the and its natural designs. all the odds is something that all of us have question “Why me?” is always stuck in their been given the capability of. What all we is it doing? Either dwindling or staying still. head? Why is it everybody wants to have a Life, being a perfect affair of the best and the need is to uproot the “I cannot do” attitude And this is what we will never want. So, the life without obstacles and the one which is worse, needs to be valued in its every aspect from our souls. These are the attributes of next time we come across some, we should easy going? Well, the answers to all these because it opportune us to live and love life that cannot be dodged or escaped. We not shy away from them. Rather head on and questions lay within us. the world which is the best in all possible cannot ignore them or hide from them. make our own ride the most adventurous worlds around. Questioning life and its very So, we must learn that the most significant and exciting one. existence is exactly like questioning our growth in our life and the most important Adversities are honoured by those who have own ability to overcome the wrongs around. lessons we will ever learn will come when fought many battles in their lives and it is this Not every individual is same and nor are we will face these challenges. We may get “never quit” attitude that makes them achieve their lives, abilities, problems, successes and success in first attempt or we might face milestones. In the face of adversities, we will failures. One thing that remains unchanged failure. But regardless of the results, we be made the stronger one and the resilient one. is the fact that it is life and challenges and must value the experience and our personal What all we need is to stand up, head on and problems, successes and failures are an growth. And because there is no such thing keep moving without looking back. Because integral part of its very survival. These as failure, our downfall must be taken successes don’t come overnight, we must wait challenges, experiences and achievements as another lesson learnt. Because human for the best to come and learn that all wrong are the building blocks of our path to beings are the only creatures in the world attempts are just another step to our success. success. These are the things that make our given the gifts of brains and the ability to We should embrace the challenges and PC : Getty Images lives an interesting affair worth living and think, it, on our parts, becomes important to problems in our ways and mind that with each without them, life would be a meaningless learn from every mistatke we did, so that we It is us and only us who could answer all and every challenge that we come across will affair. don’t make the same ones again. these questions. These are not the things produce the lessons we will learn next. It might of the past, when we humans had and even Problems make us wiser and give shape Taking on the challenges is what ensures our take some time but at the end, the victory is today have longed for the luxuries of life. to our lives. These make us believe that a growth, but if there is no growth then what guaranteed. United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s Initiative for Youth Empowerment to become a ray of hope for the youths. As per young people are being allowed to catalyze from the youth at MoF, assessing the youth’s ◆ By International Institute for Non - Aligned Studies the eleventh yearly Arab Youth survey, for community impact and youth leadership. response in the Ministry to internal policies the eighth successive year, youthful Arabs and projects, mobilizing youth’s talents to @iinsNAM preferred UAE as the better nation to live. Further, the Ministry of Finance of UAE develop successful solutions and policies, [email protected] The survey showcases that unemployment established MoF Youth Council in 2017 and taking into account their opinions of the and the rising cost of living are the main pioneered in accomplishing the vision of the youth in MoF and regulate the objectives of he UAE Government places significant worries of Arab youth. Nonetheless, one UAE. The Council centers on supporting the the Youth Council of the Ministry of Finance importance on youth empowerment T of the fundamental difficulties faced by the exceptional young talents at the Ministry to come in accordance with the goals of and gives utmost precedence. The youth in the Arab world is their incapability and enabling them to follow its future the UAE Youth Council through periodic government spares no endeavours to ensure to convey their views and thoughts on directives and visions, reaping their abilities coordination and correspondence. In its their upliftment and commitment towards different issues that concern them. and including them in the Ministry’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, building a sustainable future for the nation accomplishments. the United Nations set a few goals based on and the future generation. The government to ease the youth concern the need to give spaces for inclusive and The Youth Council of the Ministry of Finance has taken a significant step and appointed a sustainable preparation, areas for youths As a part of its commitment, the government comes under the Ministry’s goals to enable a 22-year-old as Minister of State for Youth to have productive interactions with their has taken several steps to motivate the active culture of advancement in the institutional in 2016, thus facilitating more reliable families, and to open channels of insightful involvement of the youth. It has executed workplace. The Council intends to develop institutional framework and youth-driven exchange of ideas between generations. various initiatives to promote their national the young generation, converse with them, strategies. Subsequently, the country The World Program of Action for Youth, identity and belonging. and emphasize their role in progression. witnessed the introduction of various UN Inter-Agency Network on Youth The Council additionally aspires to review The Ministry of Culture and Knowledge youth committees that empower youth Development, offers a space for recreational youth’s outlook on projects and internal Development and General Authority of to be associated with drafting policies, activities as a part of its role in supporting policies, which fortifies the Ministry’s Sports started the Youth Empowerment lead to action-oriented discussion and the psychological, intellectual, and physical capacity to provide its assistance as per the Strategy (YES) in March 2015, to empower rouse concrete recommendations for the improvement of the young people. the Government and young Emiratis to work government, local intuitions, and also the best expectation of quality, competency, together to achieve Vision 2021. private sector enterprises. and transparency. The Council carries out (in arrangement with various task including publishing the youth’s News from Non-Aligned World) UAE Vision was launched by H.H. Sheikh Additionally, Emirati Youth Circles activity message, collecting data and suggestions www.iins.org Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, administered by Federal Youth Authority Vice-President and Prime Minister of the was launched by H.H. Sheik Mohammed UAE and Ruler of Dubai in 2010, to make bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President UAE, one of the best countries in the and Prime Minister of the UAE, and Ruler world. The objective of the YES Strategy of Dubai. The youth circles encourage is to reinforce “cooperation, collaboration, youth-driven discourse on various areas and communication between all youth for sustainable engagement of youth to development stakeholders, check youth shape inventive resolution for worldwide empowerment progress through key challenges. performance indicators and accountability measures, endow with an integrated and The young people of UAE found a platform common vision and framework for young that amalgamated them in the decision- Emiratis dependent on opportunities, making process along with chief stakeholders priorities, and needs.” from several sectors. It empowers youth to articulate their views on social issues The United Arab Emirates (UAE) developed and policy matters. Through this venture,

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Technology & Health NEW DELHI TIMES Dog-Human relationship have crossed several millennia: India serves as best example The Indian human’s relationship with dogs in India goes back to mythical times during the past eleven months of observation of as long as this food supply is not reduced the and even advocate killing of strays.” ◆ By Smt. Maneka hundreds of dogs referred to by locals as strays number of dogs will not decrease”. “There are remarkable attitudes concerning or Pariahs I have not seen any that congregate Sanjay Gandhi The attitude of humans in India regarding dogs among other elements of Indian in packs and thus cannot be considered feral. dogs is something to which Dr. Amita Singh society. The country is likely one of the @ManekaGandhiBJP Instead these dogs exhibit strong territorial has given considerable thought. She is the few countries where “weddings” between behavior rarely tolerating more than one other Chairperson of the Centre for Study of humans and dogs takes place. These so-called n the last two months, three people - dog on their turf. These dogs will “belong” to Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru marriages usually occur to reverse supposed I two working in a newspaper and one a village and are parasitic off scraps of food University. Professor Singh states that there curses placed on the human spouse. Recently in a magazine, have savagely attacked the from the human population.” Which means are three types of people in India when a farm labourer in Tamil Nadu married Sevi, lakhs of animal feeders who have risked that street dogs are not feral but very much part it comes to attitudes towards dogs. The a four-year-old stray bitch, on the advice of their own health to keep animals alive, and of the large Indian human community. claimed that their feeding has alienated the first category is those who value dogs for his astrologer, to reverse a curse he incurred whole of India. All three have stopped short companionship. They are especially evident for stoning to death two dogs and hanging of asking for them to be killed because they among the elderly and the poor. “Even if their bodies from a tree. The canine killer had know that, while their ranting is harmless, they have hardly any food, they will share it suffered physical ailments, including partial any suggestion of violence will alienate with the dog,” she says. paralysis and loss of hearing, since committing his terrible act. There are also numerous cases most of the country. All three have this in The second type is those who have affinity of tribal girls in India being wed to dogs to cast common: they keep foreign pedigreed dogs. for dogs based on religious beliefs. The off evil spells or prevent danger. number of people in this category have

They should read the paper published in Harvard PC : Getty Images by Steven L Herman on the relationship between expanded significantly in contemporary The nature-worshipping Munda tribe marries off times with the growth of the Sai Baba girls when their permanent teeth appear, to make people and dogs in contemporary India. I am “The majority of Indian city dwellers do not religious movement, which has millions of them immune to animal attacks. A five-year-old going to quote from it extensively. find the stray dog a nuisance. Among the followers. The influential guru preached girl of the tribe in Orissa was wed to a dog in poorest, bonding between children and stray “The canine appears to have been thriving in protection of dogs and that if people feed 2005 to prevent her from being eaten by tigers. puppies, both surviving on the streets, may India since the beginning of recorded time. dogs their sins will be transferred to the A nine-year-old girl from the pre-Aryan Santhal partly explain a higher than average level of Recent DNA testing has determined that all animal. The group’s iconography of Sai tribe near Calcutta was married in 2003 to a tolerance between scavengers of the human Indian dogs, as well as dog breeds from the Baba shows him in the company of dogs, stray named Bacchan while 100 guests joyously and canine varieties in India. While stray dogs rest of the world, are from the lineage of likely appropriated from the centuries-old danced and drank home-made liquor.” are ignored in many places and suffer from Canis lupus chanco, the ancient and unique iconography of Dattatreya, an incarnation a lack of proper veterinary treatment, it is “From the mythical to the seemingly super- Himalayan wolf of northwestern India”. of the divine trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and heartening in a country with so much poverty natural the bond between dog and human in Shiva, still highly revered in western India. The Indian human’s relationship with dogs and so many pressing social issues, there is a India has stretched across millennia.” in India goes back to mythical times. They remarkable amount of volunteerism devoted “There is a story told in the movement of are the envoys of Yama. Yudhishtra of to animal welfare among the middle and one devotee who was preparing food for Sai And nothing is going to change it. No matter the Mahabharata refused to enter heaven upper classes. In Jaipur, a concerted effort by Baba and hits a dog with a stick who tries to how annoyed our pseudo western writers get without his dog and it turned out that the animal welfare organizations in recent years eat the food intended for the guru,” recounts and how keen they are to replace the Indian gods were testing him on his compassion to sterilize, vaccinate and protect stray dogs Dr. Singh. The guru does not appear for his dog with the Irish Setter and the Pomeranian, quotient - and he passed with flying colours. had resulted in no further cases of canine-to- meal and, later, when the man asks why Sai this is not going to happen. And this “Early Vedic literature show the dog had a human rabies transmission.” Baba missed his meal the leader replies that lockdown has just shown that the movement far more intimate position in the household he came to eat but “you hit me with a stick.” to protect the Indian dog is increasing, not than beasts of burden or worshipped decreasing, in strength. Yes, there have been “The level of tolerance (for strays) is The third type of dog lover is those trying animals. The rock carvings at Bhimbetka, conflicts, there have been poisonings, some amazing and could be related to Hinduism,” to emulate India’s former colonial masters, the near Bhopal show a man walking a curly- drunken men do beat animals when they says Dr. A.J.T. Johnsingh, retired Dean of the British, whose military leaders “always kept tailed male dog on a leash.” cannot beat their wives. But overall, it is a Faculty of Wildlife Sciences of the Wildlife dogs.” But some observers, such as Dr. Singh, battle that the compassionate are winning. “An interesting contemporary study is the Institute of India. Dr. Johnsingh, presently consider these modern-day emulators of the Indian Pariah Dog (aka Indian Native Dog). a scientific advisor to WWF India, explains Raj, who exclusively prefer pedigreed dogs, To join the animal welfare movement For some cynologists a true Pariah, like that because stray dogs have access to an to be “selfish because while they are nice to contact [email protected], wolves, must scavenge with a pack. In India, enormous quantity of garbage in the cities, pet dogs, they are awful to dogs on the road www.peopleforanimalsindia.org US Army Research Laboratory develops unusual ally in lieu with efforts to build self-healing materials Biochemistry Program Manager, Army A synthetic protein is essentially a protein ◆ By NDT Bureau Research Office, an element of the U.S. that does not exist naturally in any organism, @NewDelhiTimes Army Combat Capabilities Development although it can be inspired by a natural Command’s Army Research Laboratory protein. The researchers were able to develop [email protected] (ARL) said, “Materials that undergo a kind of film based on the synthetic protein ccording to information on the website continual repetitive motion often develop and assess its ability to heal after being torn. A army.mil, a US Army-funded project tiny tears and cracks that can expand, There are two main potential military has developed a self-healing material leading to catastrophic failure. With a self- applications for this kind of self-healing PC : Getty Images patterned after squid ring teeth protein. The healing bio-based synthetic material, any material, McElhinny said. First, the synthetic will also depend on other factors, she said, biodegradable biosynthetic polymer could sites of damage that emerge can be repaired, protein-based material is “kind of a rubbery, such as the required optical properties. be used to repair materials that are under extending the lifetime of the system or stretchy material”, she said, making it Additionally, a composite material could continual repetitive movement such as device.” suited to soft robotics where actuators could be used as a coating designed to protect the robotic machines, prosthetic legs, ventilators experience repetitive wear and tear. exterior container of an electronic device. Squid ring teeth are circular predatory and personal protective equipment like appendages located on the suction cups of Second, there could be a potential to use “Depending on what sorts of interactions hazmat suits. squid used to grasp prey. If the teeth are this protein to help harder materials self- you would need the protein to have with the Researchers progressively modified the broken - they can heal themselves. The soft heal, such as the plastic being used in a non-biological material, you may be able to DNA sequence of the original gene that parts in the proteins help the broken proteins face shield. This would be based on the think about ways to integrate this particular was isolated from the squid and produced fuse back together in water, while the hard development of a composite that mixes the protein or a variation of this protein with other protein-based materials including robotic parts help to reinforce the structure and keep hard-plastic material, for instance, with the materials to confer this self-healing capability components. Dr. Stephanie McElhinny, it strong. protein-based material. The potential here to hard materials,” McElhinny added. www.NewDelhiTimes.com India’s only International Newspaper

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Entertainment & Lifestyle NEW DELHI TIMES Saif Ali Khan to Taapsee Pannu urges filmmaker pen down a book Anubhav Sinha to cast her in a film on caste discrimination on his journey in ◆ By NDT Bureau @NewDelhiTimes the film industry [email protected] oming a long way since his big screen debut C with Yash Chopra’s “Parampara”, more than rging filmmaker Anubhav Sinha to two-and-a-half decades ago, Saif Ali U make a film on caste discrimination Khan is all set to write a book on his in the Indian society, actor Taapsee Pannu journey in the film industry, family and appealed to cast her in the film. personal life, successes, failures and more. It must be noted that Anubhav Sinha has already made a film on the social issue but Confirming the news, Saif said that this time Taapsee has expressed her desire to he is in the process of writing his be part of any future project Anubhav may autobiography that remains untitled plan with the subject at its heart. as of now. Ayushmann Khurrana-starrer “Article 15” based Hoping the work to be a good read, on caste bias which is Anubhav Sinha’s he said, “So many things have directorial, was widely appreciated. changed and will be lost with time if we don’t record them. This came after filmmaker Anubhav Sinha posted on Twitter “So very obviously, more It would be nice to look back; to films need to be made on the caste system remember and to record. It has in India. been funny and moving, and I must say, this is quite a selfish endeavour. I, for one, certainly will” to which Taapsee I do hope others enjoy the book, quickly replied, “Is baar main kar lu?” too, of course!” Anubhav Sinha wrote to her, saying, “You are so naughty! You are still awake? Ok do PC : Getty Images PC : Getty Images By NDT Bureau it.” Big B addresses fear at workplace amid ‘Black Panther’ star Chadwick COVID-19 pandemic

◆ By NDT Bureau Boseman dies of cancer at 43 hadwick Boseman, who played Black died on a day that Major League Baseball the technologically advanced civilization of @NewDelhiTimes C icons Jackie Robinson and James was celebrating Jackie Robinson day. “His Wakanda resonated with audiences, some of [email protected] Brown with searing intensity before finding transcendent performance in ‘42’ will stand the whom wore African attire to showings and fame as the regal Black Panther in the test of time and serve as a powerful vehicle to helped propel “Black Panther” to more than ddressing fans questions regarding his Marvel cinematic universe, died on August tell Jackie’s story to audiences for generations $1.3 billion in global box office. It is the A return to work amid the coronavirus 28 of cancer, his representative said. He was to come,” the league wrote in a tweet. only Marvel Studios film to receive a best pandemic, Bollywood megastar Amitabh 43. “This is a crushing blow” actor and director picture Oscar nomination. Bachchan, through his latest blog post assured Boseman died at his home in the Los Jordan Peele said on Twitter, one of many Credit : Associated Press (AP) his ‘extended family’ that they should put their Angeles area with his wife and family by his expressing shocks as the news spread across fears at rest as adequate measures are being side, his publicist Nicki Fioravante told The social media. undertaken during the shoots. Associated Press. “This broke me,” said actor and writer Issa Boseman was diagnosed with colon cancer Rae. four years ago, his family said in a statement. Captain America actor Chris Evans called “A true fighter, Chadwick persevered Boseman “a true original. He was a deeply through it all, and brought you many of committed and constantly curious artist. the films you have come to love so much,” He had so much amazing work still left to his family said. “From Marshall to Da 5 create.” Bloods, August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden

PC : Getty Images Bottom and several more - all were filmed tweeted that Boseman “inspired generations during and between countless surgeries and and showed them they can be anything they chemotherapy. It was the honor of his career “The notice of extreme discipline in the want - even super heroes.” to bring King T’Challa to life in Black execution of work is astonishing. As I said last Panther.” His T’Challa character was first introduced night the ‘fear’ of the possibility pushes all to the blockbuster Marvel movies in 2016’s into one large cubicle where the uncertainty Boseman had not spoken publicly about his “Captain America: Civil War,” and his PC : Getty Images of the outcome is unknown but when ever did diagnosis. He is survived by his wife and a “Wakanda Forever” salute reverberated life not have uncertainty. Each day it spreads parent and had no children, Fioravante said. around the world after the release of “Black its wing span from the widest to the longest Born in South Carolina, Boseman graduated Panther” two years ago. and envelops us all. At times we fly, at times from Howard University and had small roles “I don’t think the world was ready for we just drop without any wind in our sails and in television before his first star turn in 2013. a “Black Panther” movie before learn to survive,” wrote Big B. “The body and His striking portrayal of the stoic baseball this moment. Socially and mind have lived long enough in the isolation of star Robinson opposite Harrison Ford in politically, it wasn’t the dread, now let it be free,” he added. 2013’s “42” drew attention in Hollywood ready for it,” he told AP Meanwhile, the megastar has begun shooting and made him a star. at the time. for the new season of popular game show A year later, he wowed audiences as The film’s vision of “Kaun Banega Crorepati”. Brown in the biopic “Get On Up.” Boseman Afrofuturism and

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Sports NEW DELHI TIMES No. 1 Djokovic, Pospisil would lead new men’s Analysing Bayern Munich’s successful tennis group o. 1-ranked Novak Djokovic and former 2019-20 campaign N top-30 member Vasek Pospisil would Flick’s restoration of the high-defensive line, insistence on pressing, controlling the ball in be the co-presidents of a new group they are trying to set up to represent men’s professional midfield and attacking the ball in the opposition half as key tactics bore excellent results tennis players. A letter emailed to players- and Bavarian giants, who had a shaky start to the opposition midfield opened up plenty of obtained by The Associated Press on - pushes ◆ By Dr. Pawan Mathur the Bundesliga season and were criticised spaces for the forward line to exploit. Along the formation of a Professional Tennis Players @PawanMathur heavily after their 5-1 defeat to Eintracht with Muller, Leon Goretzka was another Association, abbreviated PTPA. Frankfurt in November 2019. The loss pivot in Bayern’s midfield. His pace allowed [email protected] resulted in the sacking of Niko Kovac as him to switch ends effortlessly. Another one The letter says its objective is “to solicit support manager and him being replaced by Hansi of Goretzka’s asset is his ability to exert ayern Munich defeated Paris Saint from players to form an association with a Flick. Flick’s restoration of the high- aggressive pressure on the opponent and B Germain (PSG) in the final of the mandate to promote, protect and represent the defensive line, insistence on pressing, win the ball back. In his final season with 2020 UEFA Champions League (UCL) to interests of its players ... and protect the future controlling the ball in midfield and Bayern Munich, Thiago Alacantara formed win their 6th European title and completed of tennis.” attacking the ball in the opposition half as a formidable midfield triumvirate with an incredible season treble after winning the key tactics bore excellent results and this Muller and Goretzka, Alacantara’s ability Tennis players never have had a union the way Bundesliga and the DFB Pokal Cup. They was most strikingly manifested in their 8-2 to control the pace of the game coupled North American team sports do. Each player is were deserving winners of the Champions demolition of Barcelona in the UCL quarter- with his excellent passing was instrumental considered an independent contractor. League having played some outstanding football in the season, scoring 43 goals in 11 “Unlike many other professional sports, games (the second-highest goal by a team in men’s professional tennis has never had a a UCL campaign after Barcelona’s 45 goals representative body that is represented for in 16 games in the1999-00 season). Bayern players by players,” the email said. also became the first team in the UCL history The men’s tennis tour is organized by the ATP; to win 11 wins on a trot. Bayern Munich the women’s tennis tour is run by the WTA. finished the 2019-20 season unbeaten in Djokovic is the President of the ATP Player their last 30 games (29 wins and 1 draw) and Council and Pospisil has been a member for winning each of their last 21 matches across two years, but he tweeted that he was resigning. all competitions.

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finals. Bayern Munich’s squad boasts of in Bayern’s success this season. Bayern’s quality players in all departments. Manuel domination of midfield in the final against Neuer’s stature as one of the all-time great PSG significantly reduced the threat of goalkeepers was confirmed once again with Neymar and Mbappe. In Ivan Perisic and his spectacular display in the UCL final, the Kingsley Coman, Bayern have two quality highlight being his two outstanding saves attacking options. Hansi Flick opted for of close-range shots by Neymar and Kylian Kingsley Coman instead of Ivan Perisic in Mbappe. the starting XI for the UCL final and it bore great results as Coman scored the decisive At the start of the season, Bayern Munich goal. With Leroy Sane arriving at the club came in for criticism for their defensive next season, Bayern’s midfield and their frailties. These were sorted out under ability to press at the wings will pose more Flick’s tenure and the ‘high defensive line’ threat to their opponents. tactics was restored. Jordi Alaba created a formidable defensive partnership with Bayern’s forward line led by Robert Jerome Boateng. Alphonso Davies is quickly Lewandowski and Serge Gnabry tore into establishing himself as one of the best left- the opposition defences. Lewandowski backs in the world. scored 15 goals in this UCL season while Gnabry netted 9. The 24 combined goals His pace and his attacking sprints down the scored by Lewandowski and Gnabry are the left-wing provided Bayern Munich with an most by a pair of teammates in a single UCL added attacking option and was pivotal in season, surpassing the tally by Cristiano Bayern’s pressing tactics. Joshua Kimmich Ronaldo (17) and Gareth Bale (6) in 2013- not only excelled as a defensive midfielder 14 for Real Madrid. but also regularly provided assists for goals, including the one scored by Kingsley Coman Lewandowski had a stellar 2019-20 season in the final. In fact, assists for three of the scoring 55 goals in 47 games across all last four goals by Bayern Munich in the UCL competitions. Lewandowski was the were provided by Kimmich. Niklas Sule, strongest contender for the 2020 Balon’d’or Benjamin Pavard and Lucas Hernandez are award but it is unfortunate that the award world-class defenders and the fact that the will not be given this year and the Polish three were on the bench as substitutes at the striker has been unfairly denied. start of the UCL final is an incredible testimony to Contact New Delhi Times Bayern’s squad depth. For Complaints & Suggestions Bayern currently boast the +91-9999331600 best midfield in Europe. & One of the best tactical For Advertisements decisions taken by Flick +91-9999337800 was to allow Thomas Muller play his natural A-2/59, Safdarjung Enclave, New Delhi-110029 game at his preferred position. His tactical Visit us at : twitter@NewDelhiTimes awareness along with an facebook.com/newdelhitimes active presence behind Printer and Publisher: Dr. (Mrs.) Pramila Srivastava, on behalf of Dr. Ankur Srivastava, Printed at Sudhir Printers, 151, Desh Bandhu Gupta Market, Karol Bagh, Delhi - 110005, Published at A-2/59 Safdarjung Enclave New Delhi-110029. Ph.: 26102520, 26105846 Fax: 26196294 Email: [email protected], Vol. 30, No. 31 Editor : Dr. Ankit Srivastava www.NewDelhiTimes.com India’s only International Newspaper