Cancelling of President Obama’s visit to Golden Temple, the holiest of the Sikh shrines, forced by ‘logistical ‘ constraints, has visibly disappointed the Sikh community, not only in India but overseas as well. Its polished marble and gold plated structure reflected in the cool serenity of a small lake, called Amrit Sarovar, is a marvel [...]
President Clinton once, in a private discourse, likened India to Rodney Dangerfield of the global order; always carrying a complex that it was not commanding enough respect commensurate with its perceived stature. Getting elevated to the top table of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has remained a burning ambition for a long time that, [...]
David Coleman Headley’s saga, currently held in a federal prison in Chicago, is almost comparable with the complexity of a Le Carre nail biting cliffhanger of a novel. His eyes – one a green and the other a brown – are perhaps the best indication of his mixed bloodlines ; a splintered legacy drawn from [...]
The silky smooth ease with which a lowly shopkeeper from Quetta, has managed to pull wool around the eyes of world’s two most renowned intelligence outfits; the CIA and MI6, is symptomatic of the ground reality in Afghanistan and reflective of the naiveté that governs the US/UK efforts to find a way out of the [...]
The world today finds itself in the twilight zone of warfare. The military capabilities that came into being as a result of Industrial revolution are fast becoming dependent upon the innovations created by the Cyber technology. While the destruction oriented fire power weapons and paralysis causing mechanization based mobility were the dominant tools of the [...]
The decision regarding the title case for the site of Babri Mosque by Allahabad High Court on 30th September, while stunning the Muslim community in India into dejected silence has far exceeded the expectations of the Hindu extremist organizations, who can’t suppress their unmitigated sense of triumph and jubilation despite constraints to appear statesmanlike. The [...]
Two recent developments have served to highlight the imperatives that drive Pakistan’s plutonium based nuclear advancement and its importance as an important factor in balancing the strategic military deterrence vis-à-vis India.
First; a report by the Institute of Science and International Security (ISIS) which claims that the progress of work at the third reactor at Khushab [...]
It is a nightmarish scenario from an Indian perspective; the Kashmir Issue is in the cross-hairs of global focus even as President Obama’s November visit to India is drawing inexorably closer with every passing day. The Kashmir Valley remains in the throes of a five months long upheaval of mass protest that has seen Kashmiris [...]
There is one thing stronger than all armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
The sight of throngs of Kashmiri young men defiantly throwing stones with an abandon, that only youth can muster, to express alienation with the Indian security apparatus evokes inevitable feeling of déjà vu. It was [...]
The third round of the Pak US strategic Dialogue at ministerial level has started in Washington but the ambience is marked with somberness and the level of expectations remain rather low. There is wariness in Pakistan that the process involves a degree of gimmickry and it lacks a firm commitment from the US to make [...]
