Articles By Brig Anil Gupta

Naya Jammu and Kashmir: Winds of Change

Naya Jammu and Kashmir: Winds of Change

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Dec , 2020

Year 2019 ended in J&K with mixed feelings. Towards the end of the year a major transformation had taken place with the erstwhile state being divided into two Union Territories (UTs) namely Jammu...

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Article 370 is Gone for Good

Article 370 is Gone for Good

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Dec , 2020

The response of the people across both regions to the ongoing elections for the District Development Councils (DDCs) is a curt message to the status quo lobby led by the Peoples’ Alliance for...

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Nagrota Encounter: A Critical Appraisal of Pakistan’s intent and our Response

Nagrota Encounter: A Critical Appraisal of Pakistan’s intent and our Response

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Nov , 2020

The successful encounter at Nagrota, near Jammu on NH 44, in which four heavily armed Pakistani terrorists were eliminated by the alert and diligent Indian security forces, has once again exposed...

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Joe Biden and Bharat

Joe Biden and Bharat

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Nov , 2020

On January 20, 2021 the White House would have a new occupant. President Trump will vacate the same to welcome President elect Democrat Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States of...

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The Myths and Lies being spread by Gupkaris

The Myths and Lies being spread by Gupkaris

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Oct , 2020

Dr Farooq Abdullah and his other colleagues are busy spreading certain myths and lies in order to regain the lost sympathies of the people who have displayed open hatred for them for the miseries...

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Accession Day with a Difference

Accession Day with a Difference

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Oct , 2020

26th October is a red letter day in Indian history. On this day in 1947 the then ruler of the princely state of Jammu & Kashmir finally signed the Instrument of Accession (IOA) paving way for...

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Why China is so sensitive about Taiwan

Why China is so sensitive about Taiwan

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2020

In an unprecedented move Chinese embassy in New Delhi has issued a series of directives to Indian media and media houses regarding coverage of impending National Day of Taiwan on 10th October....

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Caucasus on the Boil Again – Battle of Nagorno-Karabakh

Caucasus on the Boil Again – Battle of Nagorno-Karabakh

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Oct , 2020

While the global community was glued to Eastern Ladakh and South China Sea as flash points that may endanger the global peace due to growing Chinese belligerence because of the dissension at home...

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Will Xi Jinping Relent

Will Xi Jinping Relent

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Sep , 2020

The 12-hour marathon military commanders’ level meeting, first after the 5-point consensus at Moscow, has once again ended with all indicators pointing towards stalemate. India on its part is...

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Five Mistakes India Should Not Make

Five Mistakes India Should Not Make

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2020

The five-point consensus signed between the foreign ministers of India and China on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting at Moscow to ease tension in the Eastern...

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Kashmir a settled issue should be taken off the UN Agenda

Kashmir a settled issue should be taken off the UN Agenda

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Sep , 2020

India has a made very strong appeal for permanently removing the Jammu & Kashmir issue under outdated agenda item of the India-Pakistan question from the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)...

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India also needs Anti Access Area Denial Capabilities

India also needs Anti Access Area Denial Capabilities

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Sep , 2020

With the fire-spitting dragon becoming aggressive by the day and two-front threat becoming almost a certainty, India needs to shed its historic “continentalist” mind set and transform from a...

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Gupkar Declaration 2.0

Gupkar Declaration 2.0

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Aug , 2020

Not content with anti-national, seditious, pro-separatist Gupkar Declaration signed on 04 August 2019, a day prior to the historical announcement of Modi Government, the six leaders of Kashmir...

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Winds of Change in Kashmir but Pakistan refuses to Relent

Winds of Change in Kashmir but Pakistan refuses to Relent

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Aug , 2020

Kashmir is fast returning to normalcy. The Central Government has decided to withdraw 100 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) which were inducted post 05 August 2019, to maintain law...

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Jammu & Kashmir: Challenges before the New LG

Jammu & Kashmir: Challenges before the New LG

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Aug , 2020

The union territory (UT) of Jammu & Kashmir (JK) is undergoing a metamorphosis. Once famous world-wide as “Heaven on Earth”, it has been turned into a hell because of three decades of...

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Pakistan Must End Kashmir Obsession

Pakistan Must End Kashmir Obsession

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Aug , 2020

Pakistan’s obsession with Kashmir is the main cause of its economic collapse and international labelling as fountainhead of terror. Pakistani political and military leadership continues to...

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One Year Without 370

One Year Without 370

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Aug , 2020

Till 05 August 2019 the state of Jammu & Kashmir had a unique status in that it was protected by the discriminatory Article 35A and divisive Article 370. These two articles were utilised by the...

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Challenging the New Kashmiri Narrative

Challenging the New Kashmiri Narrative

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Aug , 2020

Ever since the historical day of 05 August 2019 when two J&K specific articles of the Constitution of India were abrogated/made dysfunctional, the hardliner lobby in Kashmir led by the Gupkar Gang...

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Dragon Enters Iran-Indian Dilemma

Dragon Enters Iran-Indian Dilemma

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Date: 17 Jul , 2020

As media reports indicate the possibility of Iran falling into China’s lap is increasing by the day. Both the nations feeling isolated globally and facing challenge from a common enemy are most...

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Will Galwan become nemesis of Xi Jinping

Will Galwan become nemesis of Xi Jinping

By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jul , 2020

Xi Jinping’s ambition to make China an undisputed global superpower has changed the entire geo-political dynamics. The phenomenal rise to power of Xi Jinping has made China more belligerent and...

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