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Because to argue either of that would imply someone could have predicted an on-time Senate election minus PML(N) candidates. At least not good in a democracy-chasing sense that our major political parties have desperately wanted the answers to be. The US wants to know what the Haqqanis, LeT and Jaish are worth to us. For better or worse, no one has to pretend any longer that the specific chain of events is predictable or that it does not primarily have something to do with the boys.So, did FATF just save democracy in Pakistan? There lies the illusion democratic types can be misled by. And if the N-League elects its own candidates as Indepe-ndents, it will have to wait and see which side of the aisle the incoming senators choose. But in a way it has also signalled more of the same, rustling around for pinpricks and warnings. If the N-League cancels the Senate election in Punjab or tries to delay the overall Senate election by fighting it out in the courts, it will be the N-League that is fighting democratic continuity.Phew. Ok, let’s get on with the business of the rest of the elections. Prepare to be squeezed harder.Democracy is, and will remain, a domestic struggle. FATF has signalled inventiveness and fresh determination by the US against the boys.The convoluted, theoretical version is the enemy’s enemy is a friend. Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. First came the Balochistan ruse.

Easy enough to explain, small enough to disregard, the coup-inside-the-Assembly lulled folk into thinking the danger had been absorbed, a bullet dodged.But for all the wailing and hysteria when the US turns the screws, there is another side. It drew the PML(N) into its next mistake: nominating halfway decent, relatively senatorial candidates. A Pakistani struggle.The boys haven’t ventured down this path, walked us all this way, only to let Nawaz win the next election and saunter back into power. But the PML-N made its move, nominated mostly goody-goody types, the nomination process closed, the ball left the N-League’s court and, bam!Suddenly, Nawaz is no longer N-League president and, suddenly, the N-League doesn’t have any Senate candidates. The experts may eventually tell us or, more likely, events will.Nawaz is no longer N-League president and, suddenly, the N-League doesn’t have any Senate candidates. So that’s what they had in mind. Forget the specifics of what it entails and when and how.Which brings us to this FATF business. The questions:What is Afghanistan worth to you, America? And what is your relationship with us — Pakistan, a nuclear state — worth to you?The answers to those questions have never been good. But for democratic purposes, it may be enough to know that the questions are being asked.But already it is apparent that FATF is happening because of the US, more specifically the Trump administration. (Photo: AFP) Nawaz got squeezed — again — domestically, the boys got squeezed internationally and between those two confusing, seemingly unconnected things: Did FATF just save democracy in Pakistan?

Unlike two years ago, he doesn’t have the Tahir-ul-Qadri’s hordes but may again be acting at the Pakistan Army’s behest to destabilise the polity as Gen. Raheel Sharif’s term ends late November, to force Mr Sharif to grant him an extension. By the end of September and after the exchange of India-Pakistan diatribes at the UN General Assembly, India rallied Saarc members to boycott the planned November summit in Pakistan over Pakistan’s sponsorship of terror.Where are India-Pakistan ties headed After disrupting the Pakistan-hosted Saarc summit and excluding Pakistan from the Brics summit by inviting Bimstec and not Saarc members, India now says Pakistan is welcome to the Heart of Asia conference on Afghanistan in Amritsar on December 4. Diwali ushers in seasonal cheer, lit homes and prayers.The writer is a former secretary in the external affairs ministry. The challenge is their enforcement and imparting punishment when they are breached. He thought international pressure on India by vociferously raking up Kashmir at the United Nations would restore political strength at home and force India back to the negotiating table. China’s objections to the Dalai Lama visiting Arunachal are ominous. The Indian Army, being a professional one, must eschew aping Pakistan despite the extreme provocation. The multi-crore “settlement” sullied Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis’ reputation as the Army and public opinion derided it. The tension has worsened after an attack, jointly claimed by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, on the Quetta Police Training College that killed 62 people.The spillover to other fields was immediate. The tit-for-tat reaction by Pakistan stifles already limited cultural links which counter the toxic jihadi narrative about India. Never have two nations possessing nuclear weapons tested deterrence via calibrated punishment. This year, it’s also a dark Diwali for the families of martyred servicemen and families living within range of Pakistani weaponry in Jammu and Kashmir.The Indian retaliation on September 29 was characterised by the government as “surgical strikes”. Enfeebled by the Panama Papers allegations on his family’s bank accounts abroad, he yielded to the stoke-fire-in-Kashmir game. Raj Thackeray singled out Pakistani filmstars in Indian films as Karan Johar’s movie Ae Dil Hai Mushkil prepared for its Diwali release.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has further consolidated his power and is now a “core” leader like Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.Indian security agencies, meanwhile, uncovered a spy ring operated by Pakistan high commission staffer Mehmood Akhtar. The aim should be to contain Pakistan, not outgun it despite, to vary Karan Johar, “Ae Aman Hai Mushkil”. The attack by Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, that recently held a funeral service for eliminated fidayeen, at Uri mid-September killing 19 Indian soldiers, undercut the Nawaz gambit as the international focus shifted to Pakistan-sponsored terror and away from Indian security forces’ handling of the Valley unrest. His expulsion invited Pakistani copycat action.The ceasefire negotiated in 2003 is, in effect, over. He tweets at @ambkcsingh. Raheel Sharif’s successor when he retires on November 30.Diwali ushers in seasonal cheer, lit homes and prayers. While military and diplomatic officials underplayed it as action “along the LoC” and an “anti-terrorist” operation, not targeting the Pakistani Army, political leaders, starting with I&B minister of state Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, were less restrained. Subsequent posters in election-bound Uttar Pradesh claiming political credit revealed the BJP’s duality.This hybrid approach is designed to create new red lines. In two decades of Saarc’s existence never before has almost the entire membership rallied to India’s side on this issue. India needs a smarter defence against cross-border terror, political outreach in Kashmir and open doors with Pakistan instead of artillery duels and medieval eye-for-an-eye approach. On the positive side, it questions Pakistan’s assumption of unlimited immunity from Indian retaliatory strikes. It also brings fireworks, terrifying animals, birds and humans, besides worsening pollution levels in Delhi and other big cities. There have been regular exchanges of fire, with the BBC estimating 43 and rising ceasefire violations.

Sensing the progressive mood of climate-concerned investors and environmentally conscious consumers, large companies have verbally fallen in line with the COP21’s agenda. The host country to COP21, France, has asserted that it is “obvious that a deal would be binding” and that China has also consented to a monitoring system to inspect how sincerely individual signatories to the Paris deal would implement their vows to cut carbon. But the litmus test lies in what happens to complex carbon pricing and cap-and-trade schemes within each country and region, and how transparently corporate malfeasance and backsliding will be exposed and corrected. With climate sceptics marginalised in the debate, Paris is on a strong wicket when it comes to common will and shared urgency for something to be done to arrest the worsening climate. The second factor working in favour of a final agreement in Paris is that the world’s two largest polluters, the United States of America and China, are jointly convinced that “climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity and that their two countries have a critical role to play in addressing it. If COP21 is to be a milestone rather than a “greenwash”, as radical ecologists allege, the onus is on vigilant grassroots actors who should keep challenging recalcitrant industries and retrograde government policies, and furthering small innovations that reduce human abuse of nature. The writer is a professor and dean at the Jindal School of International Affairs.This is not the perfectly ambitious or robust approach that green civil society campaigners desire, but at least having an incremental deal on the table in Paris is better than coming home empty-handed with no lighthouse to guide and direct us in the decades to come.” Buffeted by natural calamities and rising pressure from their societies to act, both Washington and Beijing have announced time-bound carbon emission decreases and are pushing for a deal in Paris. Firstly, international opinion has tilted ever more overwhelmingly towards accepting scientific consensus that anthropogenic activity is the main cause for climatic disturbances and that we can ill-afford delaying the response to this challenge.

The 2015 Paris Climate Conference from November 30 to December 11 is a landmark in the history of environmental multilateralism that can lay a stepping stone for collective efforts to save planet eart The 2015 Paris Climate Conference from November 30 to December 11 is a landmark in the history of environmental multilateralism that can lay a stepping stone for collective efforts to save planet earth. Building upon the modest start of this diplomatic spectacle, we need round-the-clock social movements of citizens to raise the environmental banner, set progressively higher benchmarks and ratchet up national commitments. They are aspirational and nations which do not meet them are unlikely to face serious sanctions. As part of negotiations, leading players of G-77 like India have proposed they can execute deeper and faster cuts to carbon emissions if industrialised nations live up to their monetary pledges and offer “finance and technology free of intellectual property rights cost. The good news is that, thanks to major tectonic shifts, Paris will be more successful than the previous high-profile climate summit at Copenhagen in 2009.”Be it financing or complying with decarbonisation, nothing worthwhile can emerge from Paris unless giant carbon-discharging private corporations work in tandem with governments to walk the talk. From a political feasibility perspective, as national sovereignty is still a prized commodity, it is wisest to let Paris set up a model where the task of measuring, monitoring and reporting is left to each country’s government with technical assistance from international bodies that are discreet, just as member states of the UN periodically review their human rights records and present their compliance reports to the world body. With nearly 150 heads of government and state participating, it is a gigantic diplomatic endeavour to mitigate and manage climatic disaster as average temperatures surge and extreme weather patterns get deadlier and more frequent. The six-year-long buildup to the 21st session of the Conference of Parties (COP21) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has been exhausting.

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Players and community creators have also stepped up their game leading 343 to launch the community playlists featuring some truly amazing creations — the latest of which involves a fan recreating Super Mario’s Princess Peach's castle using the Halo 5 forge mode.While an exact launch date for the content update pack hasn’t yet been revealed by 343 studios, they have confirmed that it will be made available to the public this week. What’s awesome is that 343 studios is doing some serious fan service via this content update by including a Halo 2-era Battle Rifle as one of the new weapons. Halo has always held a special place in the hearts of gamers the world over and continues to remain one of the most popular and competitive First Person Shooter games out there till date.From maps, weapons skins to a new armour set — this update has it all 7 PCS RATCHET SPANNER SET The new armour set, called Achilles, is one of the best-looking armour sets to date From maps, weapons skins to a new armour set — this update has it allAfter Battle of Shadow and Light and The Cartographer’s Gift, Halo 5 is all set to receive its third free update — Infinity’s Armoury — later this week. The new maps are Riptide for Arena mode and Urban for Warzone Assault.