🇵🇰 CONTEXT: Imran Khan was ousted from the office of Pakistan’s PM after he lost a no-confidence vote in parliament on April 10.
⭐️ NOW: The joint Opposition of socialist, liberal and radical parties named 70-year-old Shahbaz Sharif for the post—and he was elected as the new PM today.
📌 NOTE: Sharif is the younger brother of Imran’s predecessor, Nawaz Sharif, and runs the main opposition party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.
🗯 ON THE RECORD: We (Pakistan) want peace with India, but peace is not possible without resolution of the Kashmir issue—Sharif to Geo News on April 10.
❗️ WHAT NOW: Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers will resign from National Assembly and launch a movement against the new government.
👊 FYI: Over the weekend, tens of thousands of Khan’s supporters held across Pakistan and abroad to protest against his ouster as PM and the imminent formation of a "US-backed regime" in Islamabad.
📌 WHERE: Gujarat (Himmatnagar, Khambat), Madhya Pradesh (Khargone), West Bengal (South Howrah) and Jharkhand (Hendlaso-Kujra)
💡 SPOTLIGHT ON MP
📍 Khargone, MP: Violence began when a Ram Navami procession was crossing through a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood when residents objected to the songs playing from loudspeakers and allegedly threw stones.
🔥 Four houses set one fire, one temple vandalised, vehicles burnt.
🚨 Police used tear gas shells to disperse mobs.
🩹 At least two dozen people including Superintendent of Police injured, curfew imposed.
📍 ALSO IN MP: Communal clashes reported in Barwani, Jai Hind Chowk and Kranti Chowk.
🖊 NOTE: Nine have been arrested for the violence in Khambat, Gujarat and an FIR has been filed against ABVP for the JNU violence.
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🥀 Death toll from a Russian missile strike against a train station in the eastern town of Kramatorsk has risen to 57. 109 were wounded.
🇺🇦 Ukraine is bracing for the next phase of the war: an attack on Donbas in the east. Newly released satellite images show a 13-km-long Russian military convoy moving east of Kharkiv.
🇬🇧 UK's PM Boris Johnson secretly travelled to Kyiv and shot a video walking the streets with President Zelenskyy—in a bold statement. UK will send lethal harpoon anti-tank missiles to Ukraine.
💀 Russian atrocities over the past seven weeks are surfacing. Along one highway running south from Kyiv to Zhytomyr, 50 bodies were found. The mayor of Zhytomyr called it the "road of death".
🇫🇷 French experts are in Ukraine to investigate possible war crimes by Russia. The long list of allegations include indiscriminate military attacks on civilians, torture, mass executions, murder, looting, rape and more.
💸 Ukraine’s economy is expected to shrink by roughly 45% this year, the World Bank estimates. Russia's economy will likely fall by 11%.
WATCH OUT FOR...
INDIA-US TALKS
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden will hold virtual talks in a few hours. This will be followed by the annual meeting between their foreign and defence, known as the 2+2 Dialogue.
So, what will Modi and Biden talk about? Pandemic, security, democracy, trade...and Russia's war?
🙃 ICYMI: Delhi's press release ahead of the talks will be all about "comprehensive global strategic partnership" between the two countries. But Washington's statement says Biden intends to talk about "mitigating the destabilising impacts of Russia's war against Ukraine", suggesting that the US will nudge India to get off the fence when it comes to Russia's war on Ukraine. Oh, and preferably stop buying oil and arms from them—and buy it from the US instead.
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