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Gilgit Baltistan National Congress held an event in Baltimore, Maryland. Senge Sering, Director of Gilgit Baltistan National Congress, moderated the event. Abdul Hamid Khan, Chairperson of...

DBO: India’s Response and Defence Preparedness

By: Brig Pillalmarri Subramanyam |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 May 2013

The Chinese intrusion into the area of Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) on 15th April 2013, reportedly about 15 to 18 KMs South of the Line of Actual Control (LAC), once again brought into public debate the...

More intrusions in Indian Territory by China to follow...

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 03 May 2013

The Defence Secretary has reportedly informed the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence that the Chinese intrusion at Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) in Ladakh region is actually 19 kilometers deep...

Illiteracy of War Drums

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May 2013

In a recent TV debate on the Chinese intrusion in Ladakh, to a suggestion by a veteran Army General that India should be resolute in response, a Member Parliament from the ruling party said,...

Indian Prisoner in Pakistan discovered in Oman Jail

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 May 2013

An eyewitness Sukhdev Singh claims Prisoner of 1971 War Sep Jaspal Singh of Punjab Regiment is still alive in OMAN (Masira Island, jail). It appears that Pakistan had shifted all POWs to...

China pre-empts India’s possible use of the Gilgit-Baltistan card

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 May 2013

In an article in rediff.com of December 20, 2010, I had stated as follows: “China, which had never openly questioned the Indian estimate of the length of the common border before, is now...

AW169 Helicopter assembly aine to be established at Philadelphia

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 May 2013

AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce that a final assembly line for the new generation AW169 helicopter will be established at its AgustaWestland Philadelphia facility...

India-China stand-off: Sun Tzu in action

By: Col R Hariharan |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 April 2013

Merely by sending a platoon of their troops to camp 19 km (upgraded after 10 days from 10 km reported earlier) inside our territory on February 15 near Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) along the Line of...

China Mocking Pussy Footers

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 April 2013

In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one’s sovereignty or nation. A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor. By another...

Guns, Helicopters and the Treaty

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Courtesy: The Telegraph | Date: 27 April 2013

The United Nations general assembly has approved the arms trade treaty on April 2, causing India some discomfiture. India participated actively in the negotiations but could not endorse the final...

End the neglect of the Military

By: Bharat Verma |Issue: Vol. 28.1 Jan-Mar 2013 | Date: 26 April 2013

Growing threat perceptions call for urgent sprucing up of the military machine which has been grossly neglected in India so far. The Pakistan Army’s strategy in the near future will be based...

Russia ready to negotiate with India on MiG-35 fighters

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 April 2013

Russia is keen that India buys its MiG-35 fighter aircraft, a top Russian official said. The Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG (RAC MiG) has proposed to India to consider the possibility of...

Chinese Incursion in Ladakh exposes Indian Army war machinery's (Un)...

By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 April 2013

Surprisingly, in a deep incursion, Chinese troops have entered the Indian Territory in Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) sector in eastern Ladakh and erected a tented post without digging any trenches,...

Let’s not get too relaxed on China

By: Kanwal Sibal |Issue: Courtesy: Mail Today | Date: 24 April 2013

Reports of Chinese soldiers intruding 10 kilometres into Ladakh challenge once again our assumptions about the stability of the situation on the unsettled India-China border. Our expanding...

China: Hum Dekh Rahe Hain – We Are Watching!

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 April 2013

Commenting on the latest Chinese intrusion in Ladakh, Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid echoed former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s famous cliché “Hum Dekh Rahen Hain, Hamen Dekhna Hoga, Hum...

India-China Border Dispute

By: B Raman |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 April 2013

The continuing (since April 15,2013) Chinese troop intrusion ( about 20 troops) 10 kms into Indian territory near Burthe in the Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) area of Eastern Ladakh in the western sector...

1965 War:True Story of 2/Lt Baljit Singh- I

By: Colonel Baljit Singh |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 April 2013

The incidents narrated ahead are based on the experience of 2nd Lieutenant Baljit Singh, 3rd Madras Infantry Battalion, 69th Infantry Brigade, who had participated in the legendary 1965 Indo-Pak...

Defence Ministry Finalises New Procurement Policy

By: IDR News Network |Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 April 2013

With the twin objective of infusing greater efficiency in the procurement process and strengthening the defence manufacturing base in the country, the Defence Acquisition Council, the apex...

Reigniting Kashmir

By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch |Issue: Courtesy: fairobserver.com | Date: 19 April 2013

John Quinton, American writer once wrote, “Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.” Appears happening in Kashmir, at least on...

China's arms sales to Pakistan unsettling South Asian security

By: Dr Monika Chansoria |Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 19 April 2013

Underscoring its primacy as Pakistan’s primary benefactor in the realm of arms transfers, China’s recent upward swing in conventional arms sales to Islamabad has ruffled feathers as far as...