Articles By Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.)
Pakistan’s Tryst with Long Marches
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Nov , 2022
‘Long marches’ have become a preferred form of serious protests by Pakistan’s political parties for building pressure on the federal government and the ‘establishment’; meaning the Army....
Imran Khan: The Modern Sheikh Abdullah
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Apr , 2022
As one follows Imran Khan’s career over the last few years, particularly since helming Pakistan’s shaky democracy, one cannot but see a number of close similarities between him and Sheikh...
Why Kashmiri Pandits became the Targets of Islamists
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Book Excerpt: Kashmir: Its Aborigines and their Exodus | Date: 20 Mar , 2022
Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley had completely and without any reservations, identified themselves with the aspirations of Indian masses during their long struggle for independence from the British...
Kashmiri Pandits: The Longest Night
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Book Excerpt: Kashmir: Its Aborigines and their Exodus | Date: 14 Mar , 2022
Here is an eye witness account of that night by Capt S.K. Tikoo (Retd), who along with his family experienced the orchestrated happenings, first hand.1 The Longest Night “January 19, 1990....
Kashmiri Pandits offered three choices by Radical Islamists
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Book Excerpt: Kashmir: Its Aborigines and their Exodus | Date: 13 Mar , 2022
On Jan, 04, 1990, a local Urdu newspaper, Aftab, published a press release issued by Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, asking all Pandits to leave the Valley immediately. Al Safa, another local daily repeated...
Is India Paying the Price for Abandoning Tibet?
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 36.2, Apr-Jun 2021 | Date: 26 Jun , 2021
In 2012, Chinese supremo, Xi Jinping, on taking over the party leadership, visited the Museum of Revolution, where he declared, “Glorious 5,000 years of the history of Chinese nation, 95 years...
COVID-19 and the Chinese Checkers
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jun , 2021
The COVID 19 Pandemic that has destroyed lives, ruined economies, disrupted social order and created mind boggling misery to the whole world has been with us for the better part of the past two...
As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: Pakistan Singed by Labaik Protest
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Apr , 2021
It is true that the founder of Pakistan, Quaid e Azam Mohd Ali Jinnah, was not a radical Islamist. For most of his life he was an anglophile, whose burning desire to find a place of prominence in...
China’s belligerence betrays its desire to dominate the Indo-Pacific Region
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Sep , 2020
Ever since the Communists came to power in China in 1949, their leaders gave enough hints to convey that the success of communist revolution was only a beginning of ushering in tectonic shift in...
Pakistan’s Operation Order - OO No 216/ K/ GHQ / MO Dte -1/ East dt 17 Aug...
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Date: 23 Aug , 2019
Having spoken about the psyche of Pakistani power brokers, namely the military, radical Islamist parties, Army-appointed PM, leading a voiceless Senate and powerless ruling Party, let me now...
Emperor Lalitaditya: One Among India’s Greatest Soldier-Statesmen
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Vol. 33.3 Jul-Sep 2018 | Date: 18 Nov , 2018
With the ascendance of the Karkotta dynasty, the Hindu Kingdom of Kashmir reached great heights of power and prestige. Its influence and fame spread far and wide, in the process, attracting...
Who is tolerant? Ask Kashmiri Pandits whose only eleven families survived...
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Book Excerpt: Kashmir: Its Aborigines and their Exodus | Date: 30 Oct , 2018
In the year 1990, half a million Kashmiri Pandits were forced to flee the Kashmir Valley. The orgy of violence perpetrated on them had left them with no choice. The choice was clearly being...
Imran Khan: Challenges and Opportunities
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Aug , 2018
It is nearly certain that Imran Khan will soon be sworn in as Pakistan’s nineteenth Prime Minister after the change of civilian government, twice successively through democratic process, took...
Return of Pandits to Kashmir
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Book Excerpt: Kashmir: Its Aborigines and their Exodus | Date: 03 Jun , 2018
Return of Kashmiri Pandits to the Valley is the biggest challenge to the very idea of India as a multi-ethnic, plural and secular democracy. Therefore, restoration of that position must remain...
An Open Letter to Farooq Abdullah
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Date: 16 Mar , 2018
Your statements over the past few years since Kashmiris divested you of Chief Ministership /Cabinet portfolio in the Union Government, are clear indications of the fact that your desire for...
Impact of Article 370
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Book Excerpt: Kashmir: Its Aborigines and their Exodus | Date: 15 Mar , 2018
The Article 370 was clearly meant to be a temporary provision included in the Constitution to cater for the specific requirements of the troubled times immediately after India’s independence and...
Kashmiri Separatists Enjoy the Best of Both Worlds
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Dec , 2017
Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), the main two militant organisations in Pakistan who provide ISI’s cutting edge to the Pakistan-sponsored proxy war in Kashmir have, of late,...
Doklam has set a benchmark for Sino-India relations for the future
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Oct , 2017
The Doklam stand-off between India and China, which lasted for 72 days, and which took place in a remote area of the forbidden heights of eastern Himalayas, is symbolic of the continued lack of...
Let Kashmiris Take a Call!
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Sep , 2017
The latest and among the most heart wrenching images coming out from Kashmir, which went viral on the social networking sites, is the picture of grief-stricken, five year old girl, Zohra, as she...
Terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir: Ebb and Flow
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Aug , 2017
With the killing of Lashkar-e-Taiba’s top Kashmir Commander, Abu Dujana, in an encounter with the security forces in the early hours of Aug 1, 2017, in Pulwama district of south Kashmir,...