3 July 2019

• Demarche: A political step or initiative
• Last, week, Pakistan's ambassador to Kabul made comments suggesting that any aggression from India could affect Afghanistan, earning him the ire and diplomatic demarche from the Afghan government. (Richi Kumar. Hikmat Nuri). 
• Putsch: A violent attempt to overthrow a government; a coup.
• It was a remarkably smooth putsch against the man who had seen off rebellions, survived United States sanctions and evaded arrests by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide and and war crimes in Darfur. (Mahir Ali)