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Override new farm laws, Sonia Gandhi tells states ruled by Congress

Interim Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday urged states under her party’s rule to enact legislation to bypass the farm laws recently passed by Parliament on a day when her party’s MP, T N Prathapan, moved the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of those laws. Party leader and Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, who held a sit-in at Khatkar Kalan — the ancestral village Bhagat Singh — said his government would, too, move the apex court.

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More than peace settlement, Taliban and Pakistan interested in withdrawal of international forces'

The Taliban and Pakistan are interested in the withdrawal of international forces from Afghanistan more than a peace settlement, a former Pakistani diplomat has said, warning that the ongoing peace talks in Doha are headed towards failure.

 

I am not optimistic about the outcome of the talks. The US has made all the major concessions up front. The Taliban know that the US is eager to withdraw from Afghanistan. As they see it, they are just negotiating the withdrawal of foreign forces and the restoration of the status quo ante, when they ruled Afghanistan as its Islamic Emirate, Pakistan's former Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani said on Monday.

 

That is unacceptable to the rest of the Afghans, said Haqqani in a testifying, virtually, before the British House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee.