AV 16th April 2022

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FIRST & FOREMOST ASIAN WEEKLY IN EUROPE

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Be The Change SEE PAGE - 06

16 - 22 APRIL2022

09 Families should dream and celebrate together

Let noble thoughts come to us from every side

16 Festival Special: Vaisakhi & Ramadan

Ranbir-Alia set to tie the knot this weekend SEE PAGE - 28

VOL 50 - ISSUE 49

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7-year-old Indian artist set to have a solo exhibition in London

Ambani richest Asian closely followed by Adani

DIASPORA STANDS

WITH SUNAK

Shehbaz Sharif becomes new Pakistan PM

Amid Rishi Sunak’s US green card and wife Akshata Murty’s tax evasion controversy, the British Indian community is deeply hurt and suspects these attacks are ‘politically motivated, prejudiced and racist’.

Shehbaz Sharif

HRH Prince Charles with Chancellor Rishi Sunak and wife Akshata Murty at the British Asian Trust Annual Royal Reception

Shefali Saxena

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly set to visit India next week to focus on strengthening bilateral ties against the backdrop of the ongoing India-UK Free Trade Agreement negotiations. The visit is expected to be around 22 April, PTI reported. The High Commissioner of India to the UK, Ms Gaitri Issar Kumar is also headed to India ahead of the visit to prepare for the high-level delegation.

Ahead of his India visit, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have been fined by Met Police for breaching lockdown rules during Covid-19 The PM's wife, Carrie Johnson, will also be given a fixed penalty notice. However, there’s a bigger crisis looming amid impending investigations - the crisis of Britain’s racist attitude towards ethnic minorities. Only this time, its target has been the UK’s Chancellor Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty. Continued on page 08

Islamabad: Pakistan’s parliament elected Shehbaz Sharif as the country’s new prime minister following the removal of Imran Khan in a vote of no confidence. Ahead of the vote on Monday, MPs from Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party resigned en masse, boycotting the election of Sharif, the younger brother of three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. “Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has been elected as prime minister,” said Acting Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq. In his first address as prime minister in the National Assembly, Sharif discussed the foreignpolicy failures of the outgoing government and said he will expedite the multi-billion dollar China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project and rebuild broken ties with partners and allies. “We want good relations with India but there cannot be sustainable peace unless the issue of Kashmir is resolved,” he said. Sharif invited his Indian counterpart to help solve the Kashmir dispute in line with United Nations resolutions. Continued on page 20


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