1. Imran Khan All Set to Be New Pak PM, What Does He Think of India?
“Initially, I had to give a message to Nawaz Sharif, but tomorrow I will send a message to Narendra Modi too. I will show Nawaz Sharif how to respond to Modi,” Imran Khan had said after India carried out surgical strikes on Pakistan in September 2016.
The star cricketer-turned-politician, who has managed to sweep the Pakistan elections and now looks poised to take over as prime minister, has been consistently vocal about his stance on India.
On 24 July, a day before Pakistan went to polls, he said:
India’s aim is to discredit Pakistan and its security forces. Nawaz Sharif helps them with that. That is why the Indian Army is able to attack Pakistan over and over again and that is why the Indian media loves Sharif.Imran Khan
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2. From Kargil With Love: Last Letters by Indian Army Martyrs
The song sandese aate hai from the 1997 Bollywood film Border talks about how letters are often the only source of happiness for soldiers at the front. The Quint remembers the heroes of the 1999 Kargil war, through the last letters of five soldiers, written to their family members.
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3. How Rahul Gandhi Took Down BJP in LK Advani’s Presence
Veteran journalist Karan Thapar’s book launch at Delhi’s Taj Mahal Hotel on 25 July, Wednesday, saw in attendance Congress President Rahul Gandhi, former Vice President of India Hamid Ansari, Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Former Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, among others.
Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, speaking as the guest of honour at the event on Wednesday evening, shared an anecdote from his visit to Vietnam. Rahul Gandhi recalled meeting a man whose mother had been killed before his eyes, by a US bomb. The Vietnamese man was only seven years old at the time, and had been left with a massive hole-like scar on his head from a hand-grenade that had been hurled at him.
Rahul Gandhi had learned, to his surprise, that this survivor of the Vietnam War, harboured no hate in his heart for the Americans, despite watching many members of his family being bombed to death by the US. The lesson that Rahul Gandhi learnt, and shared at Karan Thapar’s event was that one can fight political or ideological battles – tooth-and-nail with one’s opponents – and still bear no hate towards them.
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4. Breaking Views: In PM’s LS Speech, A Message for Would-Be Allies
Since last week, there has been enough discussion over the no-confidence motion and the drama surrounding it. But the implications in the speech for the upcoming 2019 elections haven’t been much talked about.
If you listen to the PM's speech carefully, you get a sense that as per the BJP's internal assessment, the party may fall short of the majority figure of 272.
The first thing that the PM said on the no-confidence motion was that it was a confidence motion for the Congress on whether the party manages to retain its allies. After that, he named several politicians and parties to provoke them against the Congress.
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