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The govt had many officers to ILO to learn about SHI. So much money has been spent. At least implement the most suitable system for the country. Many countries took the concept of SHI to implement NHI. Pay according to means use according to needs.
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Trump has no choice but to negotiate with Iran without pretending that he has won, or shall win the war. By not doing so will only worsen things for him & the world.
The US does not have the option of fighting a ground war. Moreover, Iran's asymmetric war is awesome - simply unbeatable. Hope sense prevails & the two sides come to negotiate - which itself will be a long drawn process.
Of course, the regional & global implications of this WAR shall be far reaching for the world between Orders!
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Pakistan as a Shield for Trump’s Retreats: Trump discarded Oman as the mediator in U.S.-Iran talks after the Omani foreign minister appeared on American television to say Washington launched the war on Feb. 28 despite a deal with Tehran being imminent. Oman has since been replaced by Pakistan, a country readily willing to do Washington’s bidding.
In the war, each time Trump has climbed down, he has used Pakistan as cover.
As on April 8, when Trump said he was declaring a ceasefire at Pakistan’s “request,” he has now similarly claimed that the truce has been extended at the "request" of Pakistan's army chief (the country's de facto ruler) and prime minister, the nominal civilian head of government.
Indeed, the White House reportedly ghostwrote Pakistan’s April 7 appeal for a ceasefire so that Trump’s climbdown would appear less like a retreat and more like magnanimity and statesmanship.
Now, in renewing the truce indefinitely after threatening further strikes on Iran, Trump, as @nytimes reports, appears to have blinked first.
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Unless US meets Iran, almost halfway this won’t happen. If it happens that means Trump has chosen partial win over chaos, allowing Iran a face saver.
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But Iraq surrendered in under a week. And Trump withdrew from an occupied Afghanistan. If he fled from facing the Taliban, what chance did he have against the Viet Cong? Fictional historical claims are so easy to present.
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The nuclear emergency in Iran-US-Israel stand off is not Iran's uranium enrichment (legal under NPT) but the growing potential for Israel to use its illegal nukes.
Israel has enough nukes to kill millions & throw the world into nuclear famine.
Disarm Israel now.
The international community’s collective survival now hinges on one non-negotiable priority: forcing Israel to dismantle its undeclared nuclear arsenal and submit it to full IAEA inspections.
This is the only rational response to a regime that has spent decades proving, in real time and on live television, that it cannot be trusted with weapons of mass destruction.
Look at the record. Israel stands accused before the International Court of Justice of committing genocide in Gaza. It has carried out relentless aggression against its neighbors, repeatedly violating ceasefires, assassinating officials on foreign soil, and bombing civilian infrastructure with impunity. Its forces have been credibly documented committing war crimes on an industrial scale—targeting hospitals, schools, journalists, and aid convoys—while its political leadership openly boasts about collective punishment.
Israel treats international law as a suggestion for weaker nations, not a binding constraint on itself. UN resolutions, Geneva Conventions, ICJ orders, ICC arrest warrants are all ignored with a smirk and a shrug.
This is the same regime that maintains an apartheid system of control over millions of Palestinians—separate roads, separate laws, separate rights—condemned by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and even Israeli human rights organizations. Systematic disregard for human dignity is state policy.
And yet the West continues the obscene exceptionalism. While other states face sanctions, scrutiny, ultimatums and military attacks for solvable disagreements, Israel is handed billions in weapons, diplomatic cover, and the absurd right to threaten nuclear annihilation while denying it even possesses the bombs. That hypocrisy is no longer sustainable.
A regime with this abysmal track record—apartheid, war crimes, genocide, ICC proceedings and a century-long pattern of expansionist aggression—has forfeited any moral or strategic claim to weapons of mass destruction. No exceptions. No more “strategic ambiguity.” No more looking the other way while a rogue nuclear power lectures the world about “existential threats” it manufactured through its own brutality.
The international community must treat Israel’s nuclear program as the clear and present danger it is. Sanctions until full disarmament. Immediate suspension from international forums. A global coalition to enforce NPT adherence without the usual double standards. Anything less is complicity in the single greatest security risk on the planet today.
The time for polite diplomatic language is over. Israel’s nukes are a loaded gun in the hands of wanted war criminals and serial arsonists. The world cannot afford to keep pretending otherwise.
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My take April 13, when most felt Iran-US talks were over. Now @realDonaldTrump says talks resuming before 2-week ceasefire ends. US’ “blockade” lets US claim a win. It may enable Iran’s gov to get IRGC on board. Issues: Uranium enrichment- later or never; Hormuz Strait opening- in lieu Iran accepting assets release & sanctions lifting; Security of Iran’s allies.
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India’s Military Is Preparing for the Wrong War
India’s military strategy remains geared toward fighting the next big conventional war, even as its two closely aligned regional adversaries, China and Pakistan, prosecute asymmetric campaigns against it. China’s stealthy land grabs in Ladakh in 2020 — achieved without firing a single shot — offer a telling example.
America’s war in Iran has again underscored the new logic of warfare: advantage no longer rests solely with the technologically superior, but with the strategically adaptive. Despite unleashing overwhelming force, the U.S. failed to convert its tactical successes into a tangible strategic outcome in the face of Iran’s asymmetric reprisals.
This is a lesson India can ill afford to ignore, given its continued emphasis on importing big-ticket platforms. It has consistently ranked among the world’s largest arms importers.
New Delhi is now advancing a major Rafale deal with France worth around $40 billion — far exceeding its cumulative investment this century in indigenous missile and drone development. The Iran war, much like the conflict in Ukraine, highlights that low-cost drones and missiles are now decisive, transformative weapons of deterrence and reprisal, often outpacing traditional high-end systems in strategic effect.
India’s costly obsession with conventional war is blinding it to a simple reality: big-ticket weapons no longer deliver commensurate strategic returns. openthemagazine.com/world/wa…
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A US-Iran peace deal after one encounter would be unrealistic. Both sides had wish lists approved by their leaderships. Sticking points being: Hormuz Strait control, nuclear enrichment in Iran, Iranian links to allies & weapons development. Hope ceasefire holds as they rethink.
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Coincides with my view.
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The USA's 2-week Ceasefire
Last week, the Pakistani Foreign Minister made a very notable trip to Beijing. After that trip, China and Pakistan jointly released a five-point initiative to restore peace in the Middle East: @MichaelKugelman
@ambkcsingh shares his views.
#NewsToday | @sardesairajdeep
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Trump’s Iran War: A Strategic Failure on All Fronts
The cessation of hostilities against Iran marks a strategic defeat for Trump, underscoring how little his war of aggression actually achieved.
First, it failed in its central aim: regime change. Instead, it has consolidated the Iranian regime’s grip on power, giving new life to a government that had been under strain.
Second, the Strait of Hormuz — open before the war — is now subject to “regulated passage” under Iranian coordination. What Trump demanded as an unconditional reopening has instead evolved into a tacit recognition of Tehran’s authority, with Iran poised to levy transit fees much like Egypt does in the Suez Canal.
Third, the war's international economic costs are vast and enduring. Damage to energy infrastructure across the Gulf and Iran will reverberate globally, making this war arguably the most economically disruptive in decades.
Fourth, the war deepened America’s geopolitical isolation. Trump’s public frustration with NATO allies, as well as partners like Australia, Japan and South Korea, only underscored the lack of international backing for a war that had no basis in international law. Meanwhile, Gulf Arab states have been left to absorb both physical damage and reputational fallout.
Fifth, the war has eroded not just Trump’s credibility, but that of the United States itself.
Finally, it has fractured Trump’s domestic political base at a critical moment ahead of the midterms.
This was a war that weakened America, rescued Iran’s theocratic regime and left Trump with little to show but wreckage.
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The #ceasefire (US-Iran) announcement marks a pause, but more importantly, it reveals where each actor now stands.
The United States has stepped back from the brink it created. A deadline backed by threats of overwhelming force has given way to a conditional pause built around negotiations. That signals not strength alone, but recognition of limits: military objectives may have been met, but political end states remain elusive.
Israel, for its part, finds itself in a more ambiguous position. Having driven escalation, it is now tethered to a process it does not fully control. Its objectives, particularly around regime change or long-term degradation of Iran, sit uneasily with a negotiation track shaped elsewhere.
Iran emerges with a measure of strategic resilience. It has absorbed strikes, retaliated, and then shifted the frame from ceasefire to conditions for a broader settlement: sanctions relief, security guarantees, and regional de-escalation.
In doing so, it has moved from target to negotiating actor without conceding core positions.
Pakistan’s role has unfolded not as architect, but as conduit and catalyst. It has provided the channel through which messages travelled, deadlines were softened, and a narrow diplomatic opening created. That is not mediation in the classic sense, but it cannot be dismissed with stray witticisms either.
What we are witnessing is not resolution of conflict , but repositioning.
The war has not ended. It has entered a different phase, where coercion and negotiation now proceed together.
For India, the implication is clear.
Do not read this as de-escalation alone. Read it as a system under strain, where outcomes are still fluid.
India should state its position with clarity:
support de-escalation, safeguard maritime flows, and resist alignment with any one narrative of this conflict.
This is not a moment for silence.
It is a moment for calibrated voice.
#WestAsia
#IranUSConflict
#MiddleEastCrisis
#StrategicAutonomy
#IndiaForeignPolicy
#Hormuz
#MaritimeSecurity
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Actually "victimhood" is determined by international law. The attacks on Ukraine and Iran are both illegal under the UN Charter. It's that simple.
Facts don't care about your feelings.
Mehdi, this is a striking comparison — and a flawed one.
Ukraine was a sovereign country living within its borders, attacked without provocation. Iran has spent decades exporting violence outward: funding Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, arming Russia's drone campaign against Ukraine, and launching two direct ballistic missile barrages at Israel in 2024. These are not equivalent starting conditions.
Calling one "the victim" requires more than noting that bombs are falling.
Victimhood in war isn't determined by geography... it's determined by context. By your logic, bombing Nazi Germany made Germany the victim. The question is never just who is being struck. It's why, by whom, and what came before. Iran's nuclear program, its regional proxy network, and its direct attacks on Israel aren't footnotes; they're the whole story.
And using Zelensky's credibility as leverage here is the most cynical move of all. Iran supplied Russia with the Shahed drones, killing Ukrainian civilians. Zelensky owes Iran no solidarity, and he owes you no consistency test that erases that history.
Principled opposition to aggression means accounting for who the aggressor actually is and not just who's getting hit today.
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That’s now how it works. They are the ones who were attacked, they’re the ones still being attacked, they’re the ones being threatened with war crimes and genocide, and they’re the ones who did a ceasefire last year with Israel and the US…only to get attacked again this year.
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When will the rest of the world stand up to the US + Israel and call them out for the Barbaric and Terrorist Regimes that they are..? Both should be isolated from the International Community...
























