Afghanistan should look upon India as a country that can be depended upon to assist without attempting to gain control especially so since there are no common borders...

J&K : People, Government, Indian Army join hands to overcome the COVID challenge..

It is now two weeks since India and Pakistan, through their respective Director Generals of Military Operations (DGsMO), recommitted to maintenance of the ceasefire protocols that were established in 2003. Ayesha Siddiqa, one of Pakistan's most ..

Pakistan’s economy has been hurtling southwards for more than a decade now. Its present growth rate, hovering around 2-3 percent, makes it one of the lowest growing economies in South Asia trailed only by Sri Lanka and Maldives...

Winds of change are taking place in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir in more ways than one. A welcome development in recent times is enhancement in induction of women in security forces operating in the region. ..

“When curfew is lifted there will be a blood bath,” said Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, in the course of his address to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September 2019. He was predicting mass violence by the people of Kashmir ..

Pakistan has great expertise in keeping Indian Border States perpetually on the boil. In the 1980’s it created a brutal environment of terror in Punjab; once terrorism was contained it used the established conduits to flood the state with drugs. ..

The Kashmir Valley is known across the world, not only for its alluring beauty, but also for its religious significance. It is a place where, in line with the predominant Sufi culture Kashmiriyat, religious coexistence and integration was at its ..

The Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union Territory of Ladakh have, since reorganisation of the state, registered minimum upheaval despite there being many opportunities to get into agitation mode. There has been no reaction from ..

The merciless killing of six innocent labourers by terrorists in the Kulgam District of Kashmir on 29, October is yet another example of the ruthless policy being followed by these criminal elements at the behest of their evil handlers in Pakistan. ..

A month has gone by since the process for reorganisation of the state of Jammu and Kashmir was initiated in the Indian parliament and the legislation passed with a vast majority. Nothing has changed on ground since the decision is to be implemented ..

Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, chose to visit Kashmir before his maiden address in Parliament. Apparently, he wished to get a grip of the situation there before speaking. He sat through a detailed briefing on all political, social and security ..

While coming to terms with the horrific terrorist attack on a CRPF convoy at Pulwama, Kashmir, it becomes important to see Pakistan’s reaction to the carnage that it has sponsored. Pakistan has taken military, political and diplomatic actions with ..

A long-term solution to the Kashmir problem lies in plugging the rapid radicalisation and religious fundamentalism being perpetrated in the Kashmir Valley by inimical foreign forces. A two-pronged strategy that promotes Sufism and Kashmiriyat as ..

The people of Gilgit-Baltistan do not come under the Pakistan Citizenship Act 1951. They have a different status vested upon them in accordance with the Gilgit Baltistan Empowerment Ordinance 2009. The attempt by the Pakistani regime to leverage ..

Amidst the environment of despondency that has enveloped Kashmir for quite some time now, the recently declared result of the IIT-JEE Advance examination has brought happy tidings. A record nine students of the 2016-17 Super -40 batch being coached ..

Operation Meghdoot, the very name carries with it an aura of respect and admiration within military circles across the world. What was militarily accomplished in this operation, launched by the Indian Army in the icy heights of the Siachen Glacier ..

It is necessary for the people of Kashmir to heed the well-intentioned words of the security forces as conveyed by the senior-most leadership and take necessary steps to find a permanent solution to the scourge of terrorism that has caused so much ..

Kashmir demands constructive contribution, not negative opportunism- Article by Dr Simrit Kahlon ..

India and Pakistan armies have agreed to cease firing along the Line of Control (LoC) from midnight of February 24-25, 2021. The agreement has been reached through deliberations of the Director Generals of Military Operations (DGMO) of the two countries...

Diwali celebrations in India and across the world entail bursting of crackers and associated festivities. The Pakistan Army, however, has devised its own celebration model that involves raining of artillery shells and automatic fire along the International ..

The Chinese leadership and its chief land mafia, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) are presently nursing a bloody nose and a terribly bruised ego. Their belligerent plans in Eastern Ladakh have been demolished by the Indian Army that has proved ..

It is one year since the historic decision taken by the Indian Union, through an act of parliament, to reorganise the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories of Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh respectively and also abrogation of Article 370 ..

Mother’s Day is being celebrated on May, 10, with great enthusiasm despite the lock down restrictions. Messages extolling mothers are flowing on social media; each family has a special programme in place to honour mothers. The love and honour that ..

For India, the criticality lies in the capacity of the Government to fully leverage the willing acceptance of the new dispensation by the people. The government also needs to take full use of the constituency of peace created by the security forces ..

On July, 29, 2019, Pakistan Prime Minister, Imran Khan, assured the minority communities of Pakistan that he would ensure their safety, security and basic rights. He vowed to protect the places of worship of minorities. He termed the practice of ..

“The Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party is bent upon turning India into a Hindu state and taking on any enemy in line with the fables of the Mahabharata. We need to watch out for this thinly-veiled, religion-based, Hindu-nationalism inspired, Hindutva-centred ..

"We see threat of humanitarian crisis and threat of conflict and the UN should play role to protect people of Kashmir. I demand that UN should expedite efforts for lifting of curfew," said Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mohammad Qureshi after his ..

The incoming Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government has opted to invite Heads of State on the BIMSTEC alliance for the swearing–in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his first set of Cabinet colleagues, ..

What will be Imran Khan’s foreign affairs policy? This good question comes with a corollary - will Imran Khan have a foreign policy at all, knowing full well that he would have no authority to implement the same? In his first speech, the Prime Minister ..

The recent two-day visit of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to Jammu and Kashmir has been significant. Ostensibly, the objective was to assess the security situation post the unilateral suspension of operations in the holy month of Ramadan, taken ..

The Coffee Table Book, “Narendra Damodardas Modi: The Making of a Legend,” is a riveting illustrated biography of the iconic leader that brings alive his life journey from humble beginnings to the pinnacle of leading the country into the modern ..

Mirwaiz Maulvi Mohammad Farooq, the much revered spiritual leader of the Muslims of Kashmir and father of Hurriyat Conference Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, was brutally murdered on May, 2, 1990, at his residence in Srinagar...

The fact that the Hindu population in Pakistan has depleted at an alarming rate has neither registered alarm nor any firm action to arrest the downslide by the government of the country. The whole process is being allowed to run its course like ..