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NIA puts former Pakistani diplomat Amir Zubair Siddique on 'wanted' list, to seek INTERPOL RCN against him and three others
Fp Staff •Over a month after filing a chargesheet against Amir Zubair Siddique aka Boss, the National Investigation Agency has put the former Pakistani diplomat on its 'wanted' list
Harassment of Indian diplomats reflects ascendance of Pakistan Army, pettiness of intelligence agencies
Tara Kartha •The present outbreak of violence can therefore be laid at the door of two factors. First, the fact that under the virtual rule of the Pakistan Army, intelligence agencies are being allowed full freedom to act according to their own departmental interests. This is apparent in the pettiness involved – which includes denying the ambassador membership of the Islamabad Club – which smacks of decision making at very junior levels. Second, the incidents also highlight the slow but sure fall of the country’s governance structures into a state where they find anarchical behaviour not in the least unusual or worthy of comment.
India-Pakistan diplomatic spat: Islamabad bullies New Delhi, plays victim card while we bumble into false equivalence
Sreemoy Talukdar •The recent diplomatic spat with Pakistan may not be a big setback for India, but it shows how its communication game is still stuck in the Cold War-era.
Pakistan releases new Kulbhushan Jadhav video; prisoner alleges that Indian diplomats were shouting at wife, mother
Fp Staff •Pakistan released another video of Kulbhushan Jadhav on Thursday. This is the first video released after his wife and mother met him in Pakistan.
UN diplomat Eenam Gambhir's mobile phone snatched in Rohini area in New Delhi
•Bike-borne men snatched the mobile of Eenam Gambhir, the first Secretary in the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, police said on Monday
Indian consul-general's house robbed in South Africa; criminals threatened his wife, held five-year-old son at gunpoint
Ians •The government said that it has taken up with authorities in South Africa the case of armed robbery at the Indian Consul General's residence in the city of Durban.
IAF Marshall Arjan Singh passes away: Sonia Gandhi offers condolences on death of 'outstanding diplomat'
•Congress president Sonia Gandhi condoled the death of 1965 war hero Marshal Arjan Singh, describing him as an outstanding soldier and a diplomat who led from the front
NSA Ajit Doval meets Yang Jiechi: All you need to know about China's state councillor
Fp Staff •Doval's meeting with Yang assumes significance as both he is also a the designated Special Representative for border talks between the two countries.
UN chief appoints Russian diplomat Vladimir Voronkov to lead counter-terror unit
•United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday appointed one of Moscow's veteran diplomats to head a newly created UN Counterterrorism Office
Pakistan: Afghan diplomat shot dead at consulate in Karachi
•An Afghan diplomat was shot dead on Monday by a guard at the Afghan consulate in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi in a personal dispute, officials said.