Articles By Brig Anil Gupta
Search for a lasting peace in Kashmir
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jun , 2018
The Home Minister of India Shri Rajnath Singh has repeatedly stated that the present Modi-led government is committed to look for a solution that will usher a permanent era of peace in the...
Inter - Korean Summit: Harbinger of Peace
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Apr , 2018
While the Indian media was busy covering the historical informal summit meeting between Prime Minister Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping at Wuhan in Central China, another path breaking event...
De-Radicalisation: Need of the Hour
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Apr , 2018
Certain occurrences in the recent past in Kashmir, do not augur well for the future of the youth. There are number of instances wherein highly educated youth, including technical graduates and a...
The Pot Calling the Kettle Black
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Apr , 2018
Of late while reading the Kashmiri media both print and social one feels that there is a deliberate plan on which they are working duly backed by a certain section of Lutyens’ media? It is an...
Global Jihadi Terror: Emerging Challenges
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Apr , 2018
With the collapse of Islamic State’s (ISIS) dream of a Caliphate and severe depletion of Al Qaeda Central (AQ), the two icons of global jihadi terror, the focus is now shifting on the emerging...
Pakistan: From the Arms of Uncle Sam to the Lap of Aunt Xing
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Vol. 33.1 Jan-Mar 2018 | Date: 28 Mar , 2018
Pakistan was a blessed state at the time of its birth due to its strategic location fitting well into Mackinder’s heartland construct. The location dominates the major land and maritime...
Communalising Jammu amounts to Playing with Fire
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Mar , 2018
A recent report released to the press by Concerned Citizen Group (CCG) headed by former Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha has made some serious observations about the Jammu region. The report has...
Power Brokers of Kashmir Crush Nationalist Voice
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Mar , 2018
Yet again the power brokers of Kashmir have played their cards in a manner that the nationalist forces in Kashmir have been given a stern message. The message is loud and clear that Kashmir...
Soldiers Cannot be Murderers
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jan , 2018
The Shopian incident has once again brought to the fore the question of local politics taking precedence over freedom of security forces, particularly Army, to conduct anti-terrorist operations in...
India and Israel – Inseparable Friends
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jan , 2018
The ongoing return visit of the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to India in response to the visit of Indian Premier Narendra Modi to Israel in July 2017 has cemented the relationship between the...
Kashmir fast heading towards “Acchhe Din”
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Dec , 2017
When a lamp is about to extinguish, it begins to flicker. Similarly, terrorism in Kashmir is flickering. The gun has yielded space to stones. The militancy is on decline. Hurriyat leadership...
Chabahar: A Strategic Game Changer
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Dec , 2017
Chabahar is a deep-sea port located in Sistan Baluchistan area of Iran at the mouth of Gulf of Oman. It is a strategically located port because it provides direct access to the Indian Ocean...
Time for another Strike against Pakistan
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 09 Oct , 2017
The recent terrorist attack on a Border Security Force (BSF) Battalion Headquarters in Srinagar has confirmed three things beyond doubt. Firstly; in Pakistan alias Atankistan, the Army continues...
Doklam: Diplomacy wins over belligerence
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 30 Aug , 2017
With both India and China confirming the decision of mutual disengagement from Doklam, the more than two-month old military stand-off between the two most powerful nuclear Asian neighbours has...
Countering Hafiz Saeed: From Bullets to Ballot?
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Date: 16 Aug , 2017
Hafiz Saeed is planning to rename his organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) as Milli Muslim League Pakistan and launch a new political party in Pakistan on the country’s Independence Day August...
Kashmir's Special Status: Contentious Constitutional Provisions
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Date: 04 Aug , 2017
The political scene in Kashmir is again on the boil. Statements made by Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, also President of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, during the...
Chinese 'lawfare' in the Military Standoff with India
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Date: 25 Jul , 2017
The standoff between Chinese and Indian troops at Doklam plateau in Bhutan has begun causing anxiety among people in India and abroad. The Indian government has so far remained calm and balanced...
Warning bells in Kashmir: Politicians must reach out to the youth
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Date: 25 Apr , 2017
The Indian media is agog with the viral video depicting a group of paramilitary CRPF personnel returning from polling duty being heckled, manhandled and abused by a few Kashmiri youths in Budgam...
Changed Kashmir Narrative
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Apr , 2017
Ever since the emergence of Burhan Wani as the poster boy of militancy and indigenous face of the so-called “resistance movement” in Kashmir, exploitation of social media by the terrorist...
Cross-LoC Trade: A boon or bane
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 14 Mar , 2017
Trade across the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu & Kashmir began in 2008 during Mufti Mohammad Sayeed’s first tenure as Chief Minister. Hailed as the biggest Confidence Building Measure (CBM) to...