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Daily Briefing: India’s semiconductor ambitions; Why Sebi chairperson is at center of a political firestorm; & more

September 06, 2024 9:30 am

In today's edition: India's semiconductor push; Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch at the center of a political firestorm; legacy of Thalapathy Vijay; and more

Musharraf family’s ancestral land in Baghpat village goes under the hammer

September 06, 2024 6:27 pm

It is the last patch of land in Uttar Pradesh that belongs to the ancestors of Pakistan’s former President Pervez Musharraf.

Ruckus in Pak Senate as lawmakers bicker over offering prayers to Musharraf

February 06, 2023 11:42 pm

Musharraf, the 79-year-old bespectacled moustachioed four-star general of the Pakistan Army, died at the American Hospital in Dubai on Sunday, following a protracted illness. He had been living in self-exile in the UAE since 2016.

Suicide bombing at Peshawar mosque: The inevitable outcome of Pakistan harnessing religious fundamentalism

February 13, 2023 9:21 am

Suicide bombing at the mosque was an inevitable outcome of a decades-long project of harnessing religious fundamentalism to counter secular nationalism, gone awry

Tilak Devasher writes on Pervez Musharraf: How Kargil War, his pet project, ended up drawing US and India closer

February 06, 2023 10:12 pm

While Musharraf claimed that the ceasefire in Kargil was a military triumph, others in Pakistan considered it one of the biggest strategic blunders in Pakistan’s history

How Indo-Pak cricket thrived in Musharraf's rule

February 05, 2023 11:32 pm

Musharraf, who passed away in a Dubai hospital on Sunday, used cricket as a strong diplomatic tool to improve relations between the two countries when he led Pakistan first as Chief Executive and then President.

Nirupama Subramanian writes: Pervez Musharraf, the architect of Kargil War, who went from dictator to fugitive

February 06, 2023 6:58 am

Pervez Musharraf was just another military ruler of Pakistan in the long tradition of that country, full of bombast and confidence but falling finally to his own overreach.

Express View on death of Pervez Musharraf: He ran with the hares, hunted with the hounds

February 05, 2023 8:01 pm

On terror, Pervez Musharraf played a double game. His country was singed, he himself was scorched by the blowback

Former High Commissioner to Pakistan Sharat Sabharwal writes: Pervez Musharraf’s troubled legacy is a powerful symbol of Pakistan's dysfunction

February 06, 2023 6:39 pm

Sharat Sabharwal writes: Together with Ayub Khan and Ziaul Haq, Musharraf underlined the civil-military imbalance and army’s stranglehold over the polity

Musharraf's body to be shifted to Pakistan for burial: Reports

February 05, 2023 4:50 pm

The 79-year-old former military ruler, who had been in the UAE since 2016, was undergoing treatment for amyloidosis at American Hospital, Dubai.

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India will continue to react: Congress tells Musharraf

January 12, 2016 9:38 am

Amritsar, Jan 12 (ANI): Rubbishing former Pakistan president General Pervez Musharraf's remark that India was overreacting on the Pathankot terror attack, Congress leader Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said that India will react as they are not superfluous who can be shot by the terrorists. Singh further stressed the need for continuation of talks between the two countries, saying regular communication is the only way to establish peace and stop terror attacks.