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Overnight flip-flop

India has called off the meeting.
Overnight flip-flop?

Attacks in Jammu
Pak postal service: terror glorifying stamps

MEA: both acts “expose” Pakistan’s “evil agenda” and the “true face of the new Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan”, rendering talks “meaningless”.
Indian reasons are bit far from convincing.
There have been many attacks in JnK in recent past
20+ JnK police personnel have been killed by terror attacks
Friday: 3 police personnel died
Stamps: printed July 2018, before Mr. Khan took charge

GoI should clarify its stand for both domestic and international stakeholders.
2019 General Election fever?
There is little doubt that provocations from Pakistan, and the seriousness of the attacks launched by groups based there warrant a firm signal from India.

Seeking a managed exit

- 19 Sep: Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani was in India.
- India: ‘an Afghan-led, Afghan-owned and Afghan-controlled peace and reconciliation process’
- Mr Trump’s Afghanistan Policy
- Time: 1 year+

Objective: break the military stalemate
Status: stalemate continues in short not successful
Incidents of violence and civilian casualties is growing up.
The Taliban leadership and the Haqqani network retain their sanctuaries in Pakistan and enjoy the support of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).

– ➢Parliamentary elections are due since 2015

➢Presidential elections are due in April 2019

All key players, including the U.S., have now opened their own communication lines with the Taliban.
The Obama approach of announcing timelines for withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan was replaced by a conditions-based approach.
USA-Pakistan: oscillations are on since last 17 years.
No change in Pakistan’s behavior.
The Pakistani military and the ISI do not support the idea of a territorially united, peaceful and stable Afghanistan.
ISI prefers: a controlled instability in Afghanistan.

U.S. wants a managed exit: justification of 2,400 U.S. lives & treasure nearly $1 trillion.
U.S. opened direct talks with the Taliban two months ago. In the past, the U.S. had refrained from doing so, maintaining that this would undermine the legitimacy of the Kabul government.
Talks with the Taliban are likely to intensify.
Iran
Russia
Uzbekistan
China
Taliban is trying to win hearts and minds
Instead of destroying the schools, clinics and courts, it is running them by co-opting or replacing local officials.
From shadow it is coming into light

Important News

- ‘India mooted role for Anil Ambani’s firm in Rafale deal’
- Former French President Francois Hollande has claimed that the Indian government suggested industrialist Anil Ambani’s company as the offset partner for the €7.87 billion deal to purchase 36 Rafale fighter jets.
- Mr. Hollande was the French President at the time the deal was agreed to in 2015.
- “It is the Indian government which has proposed this service group and it is Dassault that has negotiated with Ambani. We didn’t have a choice, we took the interlocutor that was given to us,” he was quoted as saying.

- Police arrest Bishop Franco Mulakkal on rape charge
- Surgical Strike Day not compulsory: Javadekar
- Agencies to do eco-impact checks
- The Union Environment Ministry proposes to allow research organisations and accredited agencies to monitor if companies are complying with environmental conditions.
- “…the Central Government proposes to introduce the concept of randomised third-party compliance monitoring of the environment clearance conditions through national-level reputed and competent government institutions to be empanelled by the Ministry,” said a draft notification issued by the Ministry, dated September 10 but made public on Thursday.

CVC seeks CBI files on its Special Director’s plaint
The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has sought certain case files from the Central Bureau of Investigation on a complaint filed by the agency’s Special Director, Rakesh Asthana.
The CBI said the CVC should opine on the maintainability of the complaint and consider it malicious and frivolous in order to protect the integrity of the organisation.
The agency said: “Irrespective of the maintainability of the complaint, the CBI has provided most of the files, as requested by the CVC, and the remaining will be submitted soon. There is no substance in the media reports that the CBI is not cooperating in the inquiry.”
Cyclonic storm ‘Daye’ hits Odisha coast, triggers heavy downpour
No casualties; road links snapped, low-lying areas submerged; more rain likely
Ban on adoption by live-in partners lifted
Child Adoption Regulatory Authority (CARA) decides to withdraw circular issued earlier this year.
ISRO setting up launch pad for Gaganyaan mission
Reject rigged poll results in Male, Nasheed tells world
Says China backs Yameen in the presidential election
Claiming that the Maldivian President and his political rival Abdulla Yameen was likely to “lose elections but hold on to power”, opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed urged the international community to reject the outcome of what he said would be “a rigged poll”.
136 dead as ferry sinks in Tanzania
It was carrying more than 300 people
Vietnam President Tran Dai Quang dead at 61
12 killed as jihadists attack village in Mozambique
Twelve villagers were killed and 14 injured in an attack by suspected jihadists in Paqueue village in gas-rich northern Mozambique, a source said on Friday. “Ten people were shot (dead) and two burnt (to death),” the source said of the violence which took place on Thursday. AFP