Lieutenant General B.S. Raju heads the 15th Corps of the Indian Army this formation is responsible for security along the Line of Control (LOC and operations inside) Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. In the interview with BBC Hindi on April 15, Raju said that the Indian Army had “received intelligence inputs that Pakistan is pushing a…
The US peace deal with the Taliban contains many elements that do not conform to patterns of successful peacemaking. Approach of negotiating withdrawal followed by an initiation of peace process does not have many precedence in the contemporary statecraft. However, this unusual method may not necessarily fail. Taliban-led violent events are still taking place in…
While COVID 19 has completed its whirlwind trip around the globe, most of our national level leaderships are only half awake, scoring poor on comprehension and action. A popular term COVIDIOT refers to the leaders having idiotic awareness about the calamity and there is no shortage of such pygmies. International institutions like the IMF are…
Chief negotiators of the United States and Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Ex-Taliban) signed a peace agreement of Feb 29 that will regulate withdrawal (runaway) of occupation troops in return for some vague guarantees by the Emirate. Deal has been made possible by President Trump’s electoral compulsions and acumen of Bajwa Doctrine. The US-Islamic Emirate…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had composed President Donald Trump’s visit as a demonstration of India’s rising stature on the world stage. However, as President Donald Trump toured India’s capital, at least 11 people were killed in mob violence. While the duo discussed geopolitics in New Delhi, Hindus and Muslims comprising thousands of furious residents faced…
World Economic Forum at Davos provides a good forum for informal interactions amongst World leaders. During such interaction between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Imran Khan, Trump once again caught India by its throat during Davos annual gala. He rubbed more salt into the bruised Indian ego when he welcomed Prime Minister Imran Khan…
Yes! We were pushed into Financial Action Task Force (FATF) trap through an Indo-US conspiracy by circumventing the then in-vogue procedures, and because Saudis ditched us at the eleventh hour. Even then, wailing about it is not likely to come to our rescue. There is need for a multidisciplinary professional approach to unshackle out of…
Airstrikes were called in on December 11, as Taliban attempted to breach Bagram Air Base, considered as the ultimate bastion of American military power in Afghanistan. After 18 years and over $1 trillion dollars in US taxpayer money spent on the war, the Taliban are now at their strongest and control or hold sway at…
Leading Indian newspaper, The Hindu, has reported that two days before the arrival of the Swedish Royal couple King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia, and senior Ministers, including Foreign Minister Anne Linde, Stockholm sent its strongest message on Jammu and Kashmir thus far, urging the government to lift all restrictions placed in the former State,…
Pakistan has rejected political maps of India recently issued by the Indian government. “The political maps of India, issued by the Indian Home Ministry on 2 November 2019, displaying Jammu and Kashmir region and seeking to depict parts of Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir within the territorial jurisdiction of India, are incorrect, legally untenable,…
