Shashank Mattoo

"India is the third largest energy consumer in the world. We import 80% of our energy. What do you want us to do? Switch off our economy?" asks India's Ambassador to the UK after a journalist questions India's ties to Russia

I questioned Pakistan's Foreign Minister in Washington I asked about TRF - the group responsible for the Pahalgam attacks which PAK defended at the UN PAK before: "We don't consider TRF illegal. Show proof" PAK now: "US has listed TRF as a terror group. We have no objection"

“It is reasonable that India coordinates with Russia and China on shared security interests,” says Indian Ambassador to the UK when questioned about a new Russia-India-China “triangle”

I enjoyed doing this @htTweets podcast with @MattooShashank. We talk what the US gets right and wrong in Asia; collateral damage of trade and tech policies to US-India ties; India's wider role in Asia; and why not to overinterpret US-Pakistan contacts. youtube.com/watch?v=f_o1tC…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets Pakistan's Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar

NEW: India’s Narendra Modi remains the most popular leader in the democratic world with a 75% approval rating, according to Morning Consult

"If America is worried about China, it needs India. People in America's national security community are saying that this is not the time to pick a fight with India," says analyst Mark Galeotti on Trump's tariff threats towards India

"India's support is deeply important to Russia both psychologically and diplomatically," explains analyst Mark Galeotti

PM Modi switches to English to deliver a message for Khalistani groups "Those who misuse democratic freedoms to undermine democracy itself, must be held to account"

"It's okay, you can use English words in between," says PM Modi reassuring a struggling Hindi translator for UK PM Starmer's speech

America is providing Pakistan counterterrorism assistance says top U.S. official

“We will do what we need to do,” says Foreign Secretary Misri as India pushes back against Western sanctions against countries buying Russian oil

Breaking: India goes after Pakistan at a UN event chaired by PAK's Foreign Minister "On the one hand, there is India with a mature democracy and a surging economy. On the other is Pakistan, steeped in fanaticism and terrorism & a frequent borrower from the IMF," says Amb P…