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Kargil mastermind Pervez Musharraf dead in exile

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Former Pakistani President, General Pervez Musharraf, died on Sunday in Dubai. The former Chief of Army Staff, was undergoing treatment. He was 79. He suffered from the life-threatening disease Amyloidosis in 2018 and was admitted in a hospital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The rumours of his death had surfaced from time to time but were refuted by his family members over the time. His condition deteriorated past few days and was said to be in acritical state.

Pervez Musharraf, had toppled the President Nawaz Sharif’s democratic government by instigating a military coup. Sharif was in Sri Lanka during the coup. Pervez Musharraf, became the 10th President of Pakistan between 2001 and 2008.

Musharraf, is also believed to be the mastermind of the infiltration of Pakistani soldiers in Kargil that later resulted into the Kargil War of 1999. Though, like always, India defeated the Pakistan.

The Peshawar Court had issued a death sentence against him as the court of law in Pakistan found him guilty of dethroning the elected government of Nawaz Sharif after which he took asylum in UAE. Pervez Musharraf, has been living in exile in Dubai since March 2016 after he left Pakistan for medical treatment.

Musharraf, has died but there are numerous controversies attached to his political career. Not only in India, but also in Pakistan, people will not recall Musharraf with a very pleasant memories. His family members are trying to bring the mortal remains in Pakistan where they want to burry him. However, there are no clarification till now now on whether it would be possible for the family to bring the mortal remains back in Pakistan and even if they are able to then when would the last rites take place.

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India says Tawang incidents will not be tolerated, Army will reply back

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“India will not leave an inch of land till the Narendra Modi is the Prime Minister of India”, these were the hard words from Union Home Minister, Amit Shah on the Tawang face-off that had taken place between Indian and Chinese Army in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh.

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said, “India will not tolerate this and will retaliate if it happens again. There were no casualities and our soldiers compelled the Chinese Army to the run away”. The Defence Minister added, China has been asked not to repeat such incident in future.

Clashes broke out between both sides along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Arunachal’s Yangste area of the Tawang sector on December 9. Soldiers from both sides sustained injuries as they exchanged barbs with each other.

This is not the first time this has happened. Earlier, Chinese troops had trespassed into Arunachal Pradesh many times and called the area part of Chinese. The China had tried to spread unrest in Galwan, Doklam predominantly.

India, has taken the developments in Tawang very seriously and high level meetings were conducted by Defence and Home ministry. Raphel aircrafts have been kept on alert. Sukhoy and other fighter aircrafts are on alert across Hashimpura air base, West Bengal, Tejpur, and Chabua in Assam. It’s clear that Defence ministry is not taking any chances and is ready to face the situation.

The Indian Air Force is closely monitoring the situation along the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh following an attempt by the Chinese PLA troops last week to unilaterally change the status quo in the Tawang sector in the border state, people familiar with the development said on Tuesday.

They said the IAF has also stepped up its overall surveillance in the areas in view of the Chinese attempt of transgression on December 9, adding it follows standard operation procedures that included scrambling of fighter jets in case of specific security concerns.

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PM Sunak meets King Charles, addresses the nation

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United Kingdom’s Prime Minister elect Rishi Sunak met King Charles at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday and addressed the nation for the first time as PM Rishi Sunak. Buckingham Palace tweeted:

King Charles as per the ceremony appointed Rishi Sunak as the country’s next prime minister and he will be asked to form an administration. At around 11:35 am local time (4:05 pm IST).

PM Sunak addressed the nation immediately after meeting King Charles. He said his priority would be to bring the country together and said he was “humbled and honoured” to get the greatest privilege of his life to give back to the country I owe so much. “The UK is a great country, but there is no doubt we face a profound economic challenge”, added PM Sunak.

PM Sunak tweeted:

The news of Rishi Sunak being elected as Prime Minister of Britain came as a big news for India. The world leaders are taking to twitter to congratulate PM Sunak. The Indian diaspora in Britain are elated to have PM Sunak as their next Prime Minister.

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Congratulations! Rishi Sunak on becoming PM of Britain, history created

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The irony of fate! The British race that once called Indians as ‘natives’ or ‘blacks’ and dominated Indians like they did to other colonies, would now be ruled by Indian-origin Rishi Sunak. Indeed, a big day in history of not only Britain but for India too.

On Tuesday, when India was celebrating Deepawali, the festival of lights, Sunak created history. He becomes the first Indian origin Prime Minister of Britain. He is the first person of Indian origin who has reached the post of Prime Minister of Britain. Not only this, Rishi Sunak is the first Hindu PM of Christian majority UK. Sunak is also Britain’s first non-white prime minister.

 In fact, Penny Mordent has withdrawn her name from the race for British PM, clearing the way for Sunak. Several prominent Conservative party lawmakers had supported Sunak, leaving Johnson’s camp. These include former Home Minister Priti Patel, cabinet ministers James Cleverly and Nadeem Jahavi. Priti Patel herself is a former British minister of Indian origin who resigned from her post last month after Liz Truss was elected prime minister. He said the Conservative Party should give Sunak a chance to lead.

Rishi Sunak said, ‘It is the greatest privilege of my life that I have got the opportunity to serve the party I love and serve the country. I thank Liz Truss for the service she has rendered to the nation. He served with dignity amidst many changes. I am honored to have the support of my parliamentary colleagues and to be elected as leader of the Conservative and Unionist parties”.

The entire world has been congratulating Sunak on becoming Prime Minister. He will be addressing the Press later in the day according the Britain Standard Time (BST). Former Prime Minister Lizz Truss has also congratulated Sunak. Truss will also convene a meeting later in the day.

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Bangladesh PM Hasina thanks PM Modi, read why

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A day before Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who will be on official visit to India from September 5th to 8th in an interview recalled her relationship with India. From the dark and horrifying days in 1971, and 1975 to how India had helped Bangladesh students during rescue operation in Ukraine.

The Bangladesh Prime Minister said, “I express my thanks to Prime Minister that during this war between Russia and Ukraine, many of our students were just stuck, and they came to Poland for shelter. But when you evacuated Indian students, you also brought our students back home. You have shown a clearly friendly gesture. I thank Prime Minister (Modi) for this initiative,” Prime Minister Hasina said.

Haseena also thanked India forits support during the COVID pandemic,

I really thank Prime Minister Modi for this initiative, and that way contributed vaccines to not only Bangladesh, also some south Asian countries, and it’s really very, very helpful. And it’s a really prudent initiative he has taken. Besides that, we bought vaccines with our own money, and also many other countries also contributed,” she said.

Prime Minister Hasina said, “Usually, locals in our country, especially the village level, even in some towns also, are reluctant to take vaccine. They don’t want to take the pinch of needle but we have to pursue them. We told them that this is nothing, but it will save your life. So that way we engaged everybody, so that they make people… so it was really very good initiative, this Vaccine Maitri itself… very good initiative. I really support”.

Bangladesh has administered COVID vaccines to 90 per cent of its population, informed said Prime Minister Hasina.

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Bangladesh PM Hasina recalls horror of 1971 & 1975, thanks Indira Gandhi

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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who will be embarking on an official visit to India from September 5th to 8th recalled the friendly ties her country shares with India. Remembering the black days in 1971, when then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi stood beside Bangladesh, “India is a “tested” friend and had stood by Bangladesh in its hour of need, first in 1971 and then at later times also.”

The Bangladesh Prime Minister said, “Bangladesh will never forget India’s contribution during our 1971 war.”. Recalling 1975 when her father and iconic leader of Bangladesh, Bongobondhu Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, and her family members were killed, “Besides 1971, even 1975, when we lost all my family members. The then Prime Minister, gave us shelter in India. Both the countries are neighbours, close neighbours and I always give importance and priority to friendship with our neighbouring countries”.

The Bangladesh Prime Minister Hasina said her government strongly supports secularism and any attempts to disturb communal harmony are immediately dealt with.