Saima Afzal

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a flagship of the Belt and Road initiative launched in 2015. Various analysts viewed it as a game-changer because of its connectivity plan and regional markets from China to South Asia.

The international humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan must beyond recognizing the Taliban government based on humanity and peace of the world because to be left alone Afghanistan would lead it into chaos and disorder.

The growing engagement between Indian and Taliban officials indicates that New Delhi has economic and strategic ambitions in Afghanistan and the Central Asian states, which cannot be fulfilled without establishing ties with the current Afghan rulers.

Pakistan provided the liberty to registered Afghan refugees to move anywhere in the country, they also have access to health, education in public and private institutions, and employment opportunities throughout Pakistan.

Various Kashmiri leaders have claimed that the Indian State was behind this conspiracy, Jagmohan Malhotra governor of Jammu and Kashmir at the time, had played a key role in organizing the violence to gain political mileage.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the United States is monitoring what he describes as a rise in human rights abuses in India by some officials, in a rare direct rebuke by Washington of the South Asian nation’s rights record.

India is considered the largest violator of human rights. From Kashmir to mainland India, minorities’ rights are being abused under the patronage of the Indian state. Indian constitution has a secular outlook which has a conflation of state and religion.

Pakistan also needs to bypass Western sanctions on Russia and like India should enhance trade with Russia through a rupee-ruble payment system. In nutshell, Russia may try to balance its South Asia policy and make alliances with this region.