foreign government

Jaishankar shares India’s perspective on citizenship law

8:08 pm December 19, 2019

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who is in the US, has shared India’s perspective on the amended citizenship law with members of American Congress, the ministry said on Thursday. Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar also asserted that outreach to foreign government on the contentious issue will continue. He downplayed the decision of some Bangladesh […]

Trump scolds Romney over criticism about Trump’s China words

10:34 pm October 5, 2019

Washington: Most Republican leaders were silent or supportive of President Donald Trump’s public call for another foreign government, China, to investigate his political foe, while a handful voiced concern that the president was trying to enlist a rival power in his reelection effort. Several House and Senate leaders stayed mum as Trump escalated the controversy […]

India rejects Pak’s demand for UNHRC probe on Kashmir, questions Islamabad’s ‘locus standi’

11:53 pm September 10, 2019

Geneva: India and Pakistan engaged in a war of words over the Kashmir issue on Tuesday at the UNHRC with New Delhi stoutly defending its “sovereign decision” to revoke Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, an issue on which Islamabad demanded an international investigation by the global rights body. Speaking at the 42nd session of the […]

No locus standi: India on US religious freedom report

1:17 pm June 23, 2019

New Delhi: India Sunday rejected a US religious freedom report, saying it sees no locus standi for a foreign government to pronounce on the state of its citizens’ constitutionally protected rights. In its annual 2018 International Religious Freedom Report, the State Department alleged Friday that mob attacks by violent extremist Hindu groups against minority communities, […]