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Deependra Singh Hooda

4 Oct 2024

On September 12, the Embassy of Afghanistan in Norway announced that it is closing and its assets will be placed in the custody of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs until a new government is established in Afghanistan.4 This was followed by the closure of the Afghan Embassy in the United Kingdom on September 27. [...] The bill was then rushed through the National Assembly on September 6 amidst the opposition's outcry and given assent by the president within hours.19 The new law expands the power of the authorities to restrict or ban assemblies in Islamabad on overbroad grounds, including the ‘disruption of daily activities’, and significantly increases the maximum penalty for taking part in an ‘unlawful assembl. [...] V, Issue 9 | 6 I ndia Strategic Review | September 2024 Chenab), which collectively constitute about 80 per cent of the total water of the Indus system.34 The treaty has survived the tensions and hostilities between the two countries, including the wars of 1965 and 1971 and the Kargil conflict in 1999. [...] Addressing the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, Sharif said, "To secure durable peace, India must reverse the unilateral and illegal measures" of August 2019 and enter into a dialogue for a peaceful resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir issue in accordance with the UN Security resolutions and “wishes of the Kashmiri people.”37 In his address to the General Assembly the next day, Dr Jaishanka. [...] The statement read, “The two sides discussed the progress made in the recent consultations on border affairs and believed that the stability of China-India relations is in the fundamental and long-term interests of the two peoples and conducive to regional peace and development.

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Raj Kumar Shahi

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17
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India

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