In the last two years, Imran Khan has proved to be a miserable failure who has in many ways turned the clock back for Pakistan.
...Full StoryWhen it comes to strategic communications, the record of the Modi government is pretty dismal.
...Full StoryChina, in recent months, has quite brazenly started to flex its muscles and to browbeat, bully, intimidate, threaten not just smaller countries in the neighbourhood, but also some of the bigger powers.
...Full StoryIndian military officials have for long maintained that the armed forces are prepared for a two-front contingency. That moment of truth might be just around the corner.
...Full StoryA UN report on the continuing links between the Taliban and Al Qaeda has received scant attention in a world dominated by the coronavirus.
...Full StoryNepal must be made to understand that the natural affinity and affection that most Indians have towards the Himalayan country must not be stretched or tested beyond a point.
...Full StoryNaikoo, like others of his ilk, took to jihadist terror because it gave them a sense of purpose and was a higher calling. Not because someone at some time was slapped by a policeman.
...Full StoryWhile Beijing needs to flaunt its ‘true friend’ to the world, and Islamabad needs a counterweight to its ‘eternal enemy’ India.
...Full StoryThe dilemma for the Pakistanis now is that they know that ratcheting up the violence in Kashmir through jihadist auxiliaries and proxies is no longer a low-cost option.
...Full StoryPost the pandemic, changing the way global supply chains function and shifting manufacturing and production out of China is how new opportunities emerge for India.
...Full StoryDisrupting conventional thinking, Prime Minister Modi held a video conference to fight Covid-19 with all SAARC leaders.
...Full StoryToday, depending on which side you are batting for, you choose your own facts and then force other people to conform to whatever opinion you subscribe to.
...Full StoryIn a strategic sense, Pulwama has been something of a disaster for Pakistan and its irredentist 'Kashmir cause'.
...Full StoryIn public discourse the middle ground is shrinking very fast, in part because no one has any use for it.
...Full StoryPakistani liberals advocate that the Pakistani PM should use the visit to do everything possible to embarrass India, including targeting us in his speech at the summit.
...Full StoryUntil Soleimani’s killing, whatever pushback there was against Iran did not really make a difference. It was always below the level at which the country would start getting deterred.
...Full StoryThe superciliousness of western media is surpassed only by Pakistan's unabashed statements on CAA and preaching secularism to India.
...Full StoryWhat India needs is sensible but sweeping reform; what India is getting is Soviet-style targets for the bureaucracy.
...Full StoryNo one in the government is convinced that the majority of the people in J&K have reconciled to the constitutional changes in the erstwhile state.
...Full StoryPakistan's intention behind the very noble Kartarpur Sahib Gurudwara corridor project is nothing but ignoble.
...Full StoryForget about delivering something substantive on outstanding issues, Beijing has displayed undiluted hostility towards New Delhi.
...Full StoryIgnoring the mental meltdown of the Pakistani PM, who has justified jihad against India, as the rant of a deranged mind would be a blunder.
...Full StoryIt is about the politics, stupid! The economics is only a concomitant, or collateral.
...Full StoryThe country needs to shun the voodoo economics of both the left and right.
...Full StoryIndia has a lot of catching up to do in order to win the battle of perceptions.
...Full StoryPakistan's rational options now are severely limited. However, expecting the rational from Pakistan might be expecting too much. Here's what India needs to be prepared for.
...Full StoryWhat might have worked for Pakistan in the past isn’t necessarily going to work, or work as well, now.
...Full StoryJihadist groups, and their patron, Pakistan, are prepping for the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. Their aim is to unleash terror in India. It is a time for us to be on utmost guard.
...Full StoryGoing by Home Minister Amit Shah’s speech, the gloves have finally come off and the money trail in J&K will be followed to dismantle the terror industry that has been flourishing for decades in the valley.
...Full StoryIf Delhi talks to anyone, it must be to Kashmir's elected representatives and other stakeholders, not waste time on the perfidious and pointless Hurriyat, which has only harmed India's interests.
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