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Ceremony

Katha that took place back in 2008. Eight years later the plans for a temple on the site are still on the cards, though community members face a mammoth funding task

Surgeon

Surgeon

Professor Basil Ammori is on trial for allegedly beating daughter Huda in row over his new partner

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s eagerly awaited visit to Iran, carefully calibrated, carried a message to the region and the wider world: India was emerging from paralytic to active mode, beginning at last to start the process of transmitting economic and military power into diplomatic policy. It has taken the touted ‘all weather friendship between a jihadi-toting Pakistan and a malevolent and cynical China to awaken the powers that be in Delhi to take firm steps in the unfolding 21st century Great Game being played out like its 19th century mutant, across the Eurasian landmass. China has displayed its hand: an ambitious commercial corridor through Pakistan to the country’s port city of Gwadar as an outlet to the Persian Gulf and beyond. Beijing’s opposition to Pakistani-based jihadi Mohammed Azhar’s condemnation by the UN, and its refusal to allow India’s membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group is a diplomatic and strategic marker that brooks no denial. The regional kaleidoscope has attained a moe complex dimension with the Afghanistan government’s outright condemnation of Pakistani-sponsored jihadi violence in the country. Following a period of conciliation, President Ashraf Ghani censured Islamabad in no uncertain terms.

Amina Khan

Amina Khan