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13-05-2025
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Did India target Pak nuclear site? MEA says ‘our strike was in traditional zone'
Dismissing reports suggesting that India struck Pakistan's nuclear facility in Kirana Hills under 'Operation Sindoor', India on Tuesday said its military action was entirely within the conventional domain and that it was for the Pakistani side to respond to those claims read more Dismissing reports suggesting that India struck Pakistan's nuclear facility in Kirana Hills under 'Operation Sindoor', India on Tuesday said its military action was entirely within the conventional domain and that it was for the Pakistani side to respond to those claims. During a press briefing on Tuesday, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal was asked about social media buzz on 'nuclear leakage' in Pakistan after the Indian strikes. '…Those are questions for them (Pakistan) to answer, not for us. Our position was made very clear during the defence briefing. As for your question, the Pakistani minister has already made some remarks on that,' he said. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Responding to US President Donald Trump's remarks, in which he claimed that the US played a role in preventing a potential nuclear war between India and Pakistan that could have claimed millions of lives, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, 'The military action from our side was entirely in the conventional domain… There were some reports, however, that Pakistan National Command Authority will meet on 10th May but this was later denied by them. Pakistan FM has himself denied the nuclear angle on record.' #WATCH | On speculation by US President Donald Trump on nuclear war, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal says, "...The military action from our side was entirely in the conventional were some reports, however, that Pakistan National Command Authority will meet on 10th… — ANI (@ANI) May 13, 2025 He said India has a firm stance that it will not give in to nuclear blackmail or allow cross-border terrorism to be conducted invoking it. 'In conversations with various countries, we have also cautioned that their subscribing to such scenarios could hurt them in their own region,' he added. President Trump had on Monday claimed that US intervention prevented a 'bad nuclear war' between India and Pakistan, after the South Asian rivals agreed a ceasefire following a series of clashes. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD 'We stopped a nuclear conflict. I think it could have been a bad nuclear war, millions of people could have been killed. So I'm very proud of that,' Trump told reporters at the White House. With inputs from agencies
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13-05-2025
- Politics
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Trade didn't come up in talks with US amid India-Pakistan tensions, says MEA
Trade did not come up in talks with the United States on the evolving military situation between India and Pakistan, said the Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday. The statement came a day after US President Donald Trump claimed that he pressured India and Pakistan into accepting a ceasefire by threatening to stop trade with both countries. He reiterated the claim that it was his administration that brokered a 'full and immediate ceasefire' between India and Pakistan. The US president also claimed that his administration stopped a nuclear conflict. 'I think it could have been a bad nuclear war,' Trump said. 'Millions of people could have been killed.' During a press conference on Tuesday, India's External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that there were conversations between Indian and US leaders on the evolving military situation from the time Operation Sindoor commenced on May 7 till the understanding on halting military action. 'The issue of trade did not come up in any of these discussions,' Jaiswal added. About speculation raised by Trump on nuclear war, the spokesperson said that military action from India's side was 'entirely in the conventional domain'. 'There were some reports, however, that Pakistan National Command Authority will meet on May 10 but this was later denied by them,' Jaiswal said, adding that the Pakistani foreign minister had also denied 'the nuclear angle' on record. 'As you know, India has a firm stance that it will not give in to nuclear blackmail or allow cross-border terrorism to be conducted invoking it,' he said. 'In conversations with various countries, we have also cautioned that their subscribing to such scenarios could hurt them in their own region.' On Saturday, India and Pakistan agreed to stop all firing. India's Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said at the time that the Pakistani director general of military operations had called his Indian counterpart at 3.35 pm on Saturday to propose an end to the skirmishes. Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated this position in his address to the nation on Monday. The announcement by the Indian foreign secretary came minutes after Trump claimed on social media that India and Pakistan had agreed to the ceasefire. He had claimed that the ceasefire talks were mediated by Washington. 'After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE,' Trump had said on social media. 'Congratulations to both countries on using common sense and great intelligence. Thank you for your attention to this matter!' US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had claimed on social media that New Delhi and Islamabad had agreed to ' start talks on a broad set of issues at a neutral site'. 'We commend Prime Ministers [Narendra Modi] and [Shehbaz] Sharif on their wisdom, prudence, and statesmanship in choosing the path of peace,' Rubio said. However, the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcast had said that the decision to stop the firing was 'worked out directly between the two countries'. 'There is no decision to hold talks on any other issue at any other place,' the ministry added. The tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad had escalated on May 7 when the Indian military carried out strikes – codenamed Operation Sindoor – on what it claimed were terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The strikes were in response to the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam, which killed 26 persons on April 22. The Pakistan Army retaliated to Indian strikes by repeatedly along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.
Fox News
18-03-2025
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MORNING GLORY: A 'Big Four' run the world now that the fog of the Biden regency-era has lifted
In the period of most intense conflict during World War II, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin contended against Hitler, Mussolini and the leadership of Imperial Japan (primarily Hideki Tojo) for control of the world. Armies and navies circled the globe, clashed repeatedly over vast spaces. The cost in lives soared above 70 million people as a result of that cataclysm. The peak war years occurred after Hitler had double-crossed Marshall Stalin and invaded the Soviet Union. That Stalin had been our enemy the day before did not matter the day after Operation Barbarossa launched. Suddenly Stalin was part of "the big three" with Churchill and FDR. There are many great and inspiring figures from that era who played major roles in defeating the Axis Powers, and even among the "big three," Harry Truman would replace FDR after the latter's death just as Clement Attlee replaced Churchill on July 26, 1945 after an election dissolved the national government after VE Day, but before VJ Day. There were so many legendary figures of enormous but still secondary importance — Generals George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower, Admirals Ernest King and Chester Nimitz and France's great inspiration Charles DeGaulle, China's long dueling combatants and sometimes allies against the Imperial Japanese, Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek, and a host of senior military and civilian leaders commanding armies of millions across continents. But for much of the time there were only the five men who mattered most and who had the authority to decide the great and dread questions: Churchill, FDR, Stalin, Hitler and Tojo. We have found ourselves in another of those moments of history where only a handful of very powerful figures make decisions for the world: United States President Donald Trump, People's Republic of China General Secretary Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and … Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. There are other executives with nuclear weapons in their countries' arsenals, primarily Indian Prime Minister Modi and Pakistan's Pakistan National Command Authority. North Korea's Kim Jong Un has a small arsenal and is erratic but not apparently suicidal. None of these powers are in anything like the current "big four." United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron control nuclear arsenals, but would never even think of rattling them without U.S. consent and guidance. It is a world almost wholly dependent on four men who must be understood by the other three to be willing, if they needed to, to unleash hell on the planet in retaliation for a nuclear strike on their homeland. This is not an imminent risk now as it was, say, during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Whatever we think about Putin — and he is a war criminal — he does not seem intent on triggering Armeggedon. None of them do. The most dangerous situation is the desire for the PRC to take over Taiwan, but Xi must know that the United States and its allies would oppose such an invasion and by means quite extraordinary and sufficient to the task, via capabilities only hinted at in public. So the world is, while not peaceful, stable as to the superpowers and their potential for conflict among themselves. But one government, possessed in the future of such a nuclear weapons arsenal, would in fact pose an imminent risk of nuclear Armageddon for it is a regime of theocrats — fanatics who may see it as their religious mission to bring about the apocalypse: The Islamic Republic of Iran. Which is why Saturday's pulverizing strikes against the Houthis was such an important step for President Trump to take and why I think the war against Hamas will resume soon unless Hamas releases its remaining hostages and escapes to Iran to hide there as best they can, even as Iran deconstructs its nuclear program in full view of the world. The world cannot afford fanatics with nukes and the world cannot afford a repeat of the horror of 10/7/23 when Hamas invaded Israel and slaughtered 1200, wounded 5,000 and kidnapped 250 innocents. Other powerful countries are rising in the world that will, eventually, obtain nuclear weapons. It has to be hoped that they are all countries with regimes that do not seek an end — literally — to history. Each will seek their own paths and develop their own alliances. It is to be hoped that the People's Republic of China wants only superpower status and not an exclusive economic zone or an invasion of Taiwan which would almost certainly trigger Cold War 2.0 to escalate to World War 3. But for the next 45 months, at least, the United States has a president and he and a set of advisors who will simply end the Iranian regime, likely in concert with Israel and moderate Sunni states, if Iran does not move quickly to disassemble its nuclear program, now naked and exposed after 17 months of direct and indirect war with Israel. America is back as Israel's strong strategic partner. The Biden regency of fog and confusion is past. Putin can chose too to take the off-ramp that Trump built for him in eight weeks, but that will be the Russian dictator's call. If Putin refuses the end of the war, Trump should rally the West to President Zelensky in ways that dwarf the feeble and trembling half-steps of the Biden Regency. It did not take long at all for the world to see everything as it is, even if the world doesn't see everything the U.S. has at its command, the capabilities it can use. Ten thousand commentators with opinions and no clearances or authorities, and a thousand senior commanders with clearances and authorities but no opinions, just chains of command, are on watch. Rarely has everything been this clear.
