<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><author name="Asad Mirza"><item><title>Putting Putin In A Tough Spot</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The Russian President’s decision not to attend the BRICS Summit in August at Johannesburg has showed chinks in his armour, which has already suffered many blows during 2023. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been forced to cancel plans to atten...</excerpt></item><item><title>Britain’s China Policy Questioned</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>A recent report by a Committee of the British Parliament has given scathing comments on the UK policy towards China and also questioned the measures it is adopting to scrutinise the Chinese companies in the UK. The House of Commons’ Intelligence a...</excerpt></item><item><title>Vital U.S.-China economic ties</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The recent visit of Janet Yellen to Beijing has raised hopes that it may pave the way for two rival global nations to come together for economic reasons, as it plays out to be in favour of both. Last week the U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen w...</excerpt></item><item><title>Vital U.S.-China Economic Ties</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The recent visit of Janet Yellen to Beijing has raised hopes that it may pave the way for two rival global nations to come together for economic reasons, as it plays out to be in favour of both. Last week the U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen w...</excerpt></item><item><title>Quran Burning: Is it a Hate Crime or Not?</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The recent incident of burning a copy of the Holy Quran in Sweden has led to wider questions, whether such an act could be described as Hate Crime or not and what are the limits of Freedom of Expression, apart from why the culprit a Muslim committ...</excerpt></item><item><title>New UK Plan to Reboot Economy</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>After Brexit and Covid pandemic, the British economy is facing its worst phase, Prices of food and essential items besides increasing transport costs have been pinching the pubic for the last two years. In this background UK announced its new DCTS...</excerpt></item><item><title>Politics in Britain heats up</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Boris Johnson’s sudden resignation as an MP has resulted in a crisis both for the Conservative Party and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, but the ultimate winner from the resulting chaos might be Johnson himself. Former British prime minister Boris Joh...</excerpt></item><item><title>US-Saudi ties: Are they on the mend?</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Saudi Arabia, earlier this week in an attempt to restore the strained relations between the two old allies. Apparently the relations have not been on the mend since the Saudi de facto ruler Crown Pr...</excerpt></item><item><title>Iran-Afghan border clash or start of water wars?</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The recent border clashes between Iran and Afghanistan have a really dreaded portent for the future, both at the local and global levels, besides being a pointer to how we have managed our environment resources in a foolish manner. As per reports ...</excerpt></item><item><title>Syria back in Arab-fold after long years of isolation</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>After more than a dozen years of ostracism by regional Arab and western leaders, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is officially back in the Arab fold, he was warmly embraced by regional leaders at the Arab League summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, la...</excerpt></item><item><title>No answer to the Palestinian question yet</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Nakba Day marks the beginning of Palestinians’ exodus from their homeland, but for the last 75 years the international community has been unable to give the Palestinians their right to their own homeland. On 15th May 2023, for the first time in hi...</excerpt></item><item><title>Big loss for the Conservative Party in UK local polls</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The local elections held in the UK last week, surprisingly showed a better than expected performance by the Labour Party, besides a question mark over the Conservative Party’s future at the next general elections. Last week’s local elections in th...</excerpt></item><item><title>India talks tough at SCO meet</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Indian Defence Minister categorically took China to task for border transgressions and asserted that Sino-Indian relations are premised on the prevalence of peace and tranquility at the borders. Last week at the Shanghai Cooperation Council’s Defe...</excerpt></item><item><title>Muslims trail behind in the UK, reveals Census data</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Concerns have been raised both within and outside the UK about the status of the Muslim population, as per the figures released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS), UK, recently. Census data shows that unemployment level amongst Muslims was...</excerpt></item><item><title>Saudi-Iran Rapprochement: A Victory for China</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The manner in which China has brokered a peace deal between two arch foes: Saudi Arabia and Iran may help China to emerge as a global peacemaker, eclipsing the USA. Last week a major diplomatic coup was staged by China, when it announced the resul...</excerpt></item><item><title>Majoritarianism on March in Israel</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The Israeli Parliament has given initial approval to several pieces of legislation, including a Bill protecting the prime minister from being declared unfit for office, or incapacitated, and another to allow settlements in the northern West Bank. ...</excerpt></item><item><title>US-China Balloon Row</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>It seems as if the spy balloon episode will not disappear after the shooting down of a Chinese balloon over the U.S. soil, instead it will continue to fly at least for some more time, as a war of words between two nations continue. The ongoing tus...</excerpt></item><item><title>Need to reassess composite nationalism</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Husain Ahmad Madani was a traditional Islamic scholar and a political activist, as well as an advocate of both a unified global Islamic polity and an Indian nation- state democracy, in which Muslims and non-Muslims were to consider one another as ...</excerpt></item><item><title>Huge surge in Indo-US Defence ties</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Earlier, this month during the visit of NSA Ajit Doval to the United States, India and the U.S., kickstarted the inaugural dialogue on the Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET). In addition, the two sides announced a set of progr...</excerpt></item><item><title>AMERICAN PUSH TO REJUVENATE THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS&amp;nbsp;</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The historic Abraham Accords may not have contributed substantially to resolving the political impasse, as expected between Israel and Arab nations, but they have been able to bolster the economic and trade relations in the region.&amp;nbsp; It seems ...</excerpt></item><item><title>Classified Documents May Increase Biden’s Legal Troubles </title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>US President Biden’s own handling of classified materials is now under scrutiny given the revelations that documents were stored at his private office and home. In his defence Biden said he was “surprised” to learn of the discovery of the records....</excerpt></item><item><title>Syria’s Assad is no longer a ‘pariah’ in the Arab world</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Russia, Turkiye and UAE have initiated plans to start talks with Basher Al-Assad, an unthinkable step till date, and establish peace once again in war-torn Syria. It seems as if the pariah of the Arab world, Bashar Al-Assad, may soon get a repriev...</excerpt></item><item><title>Ice melting: Saudi-Iran ties on mend</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>It seems as if in this winter season, the ice between two largest Muslim countries i.e. Saudi Arabia and Iran, has started melting. One claims to be the leader of the Sunni domination, while the other is the Shiite leader. Though this difference d...</excerpt></item><item><title>Christianity in question in Britain and America</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Over the years, it was believed that Christianity was ebbing in the United Kingdom, but now the fear has been proved right. The figures made public on 29 November, from the 2021 census published by the Office for National Statistics show that, for...</excerpt></item><item><title>India set to stamp its legacy at G-20</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>By assuming the Presidency of the G-20 and UNSC, for one year and one month respectively, for the next one year, India gets a unique opportunity for the country to contribute to the global agenda on pressing issues of international importance.&amp;nbs...</excerpt></item><item><title>Is American democracy at peril?</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Usually in a democratic system, every ruling party suffers from the incumbency factor in mid-term elections it faces. However, in President Joe Biden’s case the recent results suggested that added to the incumbency, voters also punished him for th...</excerpt></item><item><title>Deal to export rocket launchers to Armenia boosts India’s growing defence exports</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>According to reports, India would supply the “Pinaka” multi-rocket launcher system, which can fire a salvo of 12 HE rockets in 44 seconds, to Armenia besides anti-tank missiles and a variety of ammunition as part of a package agreement. The comple...</excerpt></item><item><title>India’s growing defence exports</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>According to reports, India would supply the ‘Pinaka’ multi-rocket launcher system, which can fire a salvo of 12 HE rockets in 44 seconds to Armenia besides anti-tank missiles and a variety of ammunition as part of a package agreement. The complet...</excerpt></item><item><title>COP27 must consider compensation to poor countries</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The COP27, the ongoing UN climate talks, is likely to highlight the compensation system for poorer countries known as “loss and damage”, caused by the Climate Change. It is a fact, corroborated by various UN and independent reports that Climate C...</excerpt></item><item><title>Tough Days Ahead for UK and Rishi Sunak</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The Conservative Party of the UK showed a lot of grit in finalising the name of Rishi Sunak, as the new prime minister of the country very quickly, bringing an end to Liz Truss’s short tenure as the prime minister riddled with bad decisions.Rishi ...</excerpt></item><item><title>Upsurge in Iraq-Kurdistan oil tussle</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>There are reports that international oil firms operating in Kurdistan have asked the US to help defuse an upsurge in tension between Iraq’s central government and the Kurd Autonomous Region or Kurdistan regional government (KRG), according to a le...</excerpt></item><item><title>Political chaos in the UK: Who is the next PM?</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>During the last four months, the United Kingdom has witnessed a lot, with change of three prime ministers, four chancellors of exchequer and two monarchs, it definitely is taking a toll on the political scene of the country.British Prime Minister ...</excerpt></item><item><title>A New Beginning for Turkiye-Israel Relations</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/a-new-beginning-for-turkiye-israel-relations/</link><pubDate>October 21, 2022, 12:44 pm</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/LRecep-Tayyip-Erdogan-Yair-LapidR.png</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>The reset of diplomatic ties between Turkiye and Israel may result in some new paradigm shifts at the regional level, besides helping both to focus more on bilateral economic gains.</excerpt></item><item><title>U.S. brokered Israel-Lebanon maritime agreement</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/u-s-brokered-israel-lebanon-maritime-agreement/</link><pubDate>October 18, 2022, 12:00 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Israeli-Prime-Minister-Yair.png</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>The U.N. Secretary-General and Israeli and Lebanese politicians have hailed the agreement as historic, as it may bring an economic windfall for both Israel and Lebanon in the long term.</excerpt></item><item><title>Xi’s third term will ensure power consolidation in China</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/xis-third-term-will-ensure-power-consolidation-in-china/</link><pubDate>October 12, 2022, 12:05 am</pubDate><image></image><category>Others</category><excerpt>The 20th Congress of China’s Communist Party will begin on 16 October. Xi Jinping, 69, is widely expected to be exempt from the party’s informal ‘seven up, eight down’ rule that ordinarily requires senior officials who are 68 or older to step down.</excerpt></item><item><title>Muslim leaders should focus on social issues</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>It seems as if every ruling party rakes up issues related to Indian Muslims deliberately over the years, before any elections particularly. Further, what confounds one is why Muslim religious leaders try to resolve the issues facing the community ...</excerpt></item><item><title>Stubborn Taliban and future of Afghanistan</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The manner in which the Taliban have been able to retain power in Afghanistan and their latest decisions show that to save millions of Afghanis from impoverishment and death, international community will have to adopt a new approach. While the nea...</excerpt></item><item><title>75TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE AS ’AMRIT MAHOTSAV’</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>India is celebrating 75 years of independence. An apt time to reconcile its gains and losses and also access where the critics of the current government have gone wrong. On August 15, 2022, India and Indians have travelled a long way on the road t...</excerpt></item><item><title>EUROPE SCORCHED</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/europe-scorched/</link><pubDate>August 5, 2022, 5:30 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/bff3f453_8776_P_6_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>The extreme temperatures witnessed in Europe during the last fortnight are the results of our
own making, and maybe this is a wake-up call for humans to stop playing with nature.</excerpt></item><item><title>Biden’s Tour de Saudia Arabia</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/bidens-tour-de-saudia-arabia/</link><pubDate>July 25, 2022, 6:57 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/biden.png</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Joe Biden’s west Asian tour should have been utilised to reset the American ties with different regional players and lay foundations for a more robust engagement but the results seem to be rather disappointing.
</excerpt></item><item><title>BOOSTING SKILLS: WAY FORWARD FOR INDIAN MADRASAS</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/boosting-skills-way-forward-for-indian-madrasas/</link><pubDate>July 22, 2022, 7:13 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/a521b55e_10353_P_6_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>There is a genuine case for Indian madrasas to reorient their studies with skill development of their students; it may silence their critics, besides influencing the government to support these initiatives.</excerpt></item><item><title>New global partnerships in making</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>CHINA VS US Last week in his address on 22 June at the 25th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum and the next day, on 23 June at BRICS Summit in Beijing, the Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed the need to forge greater synergy amongst co...</excerpt></item><item><title>CHANGING CONTOURS OF INDO-AMERICAN RELATIONS DURING BIDEN REGIME</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/putting-putin-in-a-tough-spot/</link><pubDate>July 24, 2023, 11:32 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/putin.jpeg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>After four years of the unpredictable Trump administration, the world keenly awaited the change of power in the oldest democracy in the world when Joe Biden took over as the new American President. Similarly, the world keenly looked forward to und...</excerpt></item></author></feed>