The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
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The members of the Security Council underlined the need to hold perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of terrorism accountable and bring them to justice, and urged all States, in accordance with their obligations under international law and relevant Security Council resolutions, to cooperate actively with the Government of India and all other relevant authorities in this regard.
Before this, the statement started off by stating the facts on the attack and who had taken the responsibility.
The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly suicide bombing in Jammu and Kashmir, which resulted in over 40 Indian paramilitary forces dead and dozens wounded on February 14, 2019, for which Jaish-e-Mohammed has claimed responsibility
And based on these two statements, we had said in our post:
With this statement, UN Security council has admitted that India can do what it needs to do to combat Jaish-e-Mohammad, its sponsors and financiers. All India needs to do now is to prove that Pakistan is the sponsor of JeM.
Well, today we came across an interesting clarification from none other than India’s Ambassador & Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Syed Akbaruddin. He shared a press release from United Nations on October 19, 2001 which had listed the organizations that were associated with Al Qaeda and Usama bin Laden. They had also mentioned the location of the organizations. Here they had mentioned Jaish-e-Mohammad – located in Pakistan!
So, to the question of whether United Nation “knows” where Jaish-e-Mohammad is based at? The answer is yes. And it is recorded. Therefore, now the effort may be to show the money trail between JeM and Pakistan Government. How tough could that be?
May I jog your memories ?
To all friends who think that @UN Security Council does not know where the Jaish-e-Mohammed is located, my humble submission is that issue was settled way back in 2001. ????????https://t.co/V2RrVeWM4jpic.twitter.com/zEttbCV3qx
The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
This visit of India left me with many questions. Many observations and inputs from different people and sections. Food for thought that I have tried to contemplate on and make sense of. Sharing all that with you.
When you analyze the last 60 years of the economic miracles of Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia versus the continued impoverished Indian economy, you get very interesting lessons. Can Indians have the wherewithal in them to do in one generation so that the coming generations may rise?
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