Articles By Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.)
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,...
Defence Acquisition Council Takes the Right Decision
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 May , 2017
The Centre recently finalized the long-awaited ‘Strategic Partnership Policy’ to enhance the role of India’s private sector in the production of cutting edge weapon systems and armaments in...
Pakistan will not change its tactics of inflicting Low Cost War on India
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 May , 2017
Every time there is a Pakistan-sponsored terrorist strike on Indian Army post close to the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir, or across the international Border (IB) elsewhere, there is a hue...
Korean Peninsula Continue To Simmer
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Date: 01 May , 2017
Today, when the world’s focus is firmly riveted on the ruthless violence perpetrated by Islamic radicals like IS, Al Quaeda, Al Shhbab, Tehrik e Taliban, Pakistan, Taliban, Boko Haram, Lashkar e...
Pakistan intends to change the Status of Gilgit-Baltistan from De Facto to...
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Mar , 2017
A panel set up by Pakistan Government and headed by Mr Sartaj Aziz, Foreign Affairs advisor to Pakistan Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharief, on the reconstitution of Pakistan’s provinces, has recently...
Winter of Discontent in Kashmir
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Mar , 2017
It has been a winter of discontent in Kashmir, with things going from bad to worse. Earlier, the last summer had been consumed by stone pelters taking part in violent protests across the valley....
2017...A Year of the Media
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jan , 2017
The first fortnight of the new year has been rather sedate; what with the northern hemisphere experiencing a severe cold wave and Barrack Obama bidding tearful farewell to the White House, making...
Isolating Pakistan Diplomatically
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Nov , 2016
India’s long delayed and eagerly expected surgical strike against Pakistan’s launch pads across the LoC, where militants of various Tanzeems are stationed just prior to their induction into...
Surgical Strike and its Likely Aftermath
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Oct , 2016
One of the options available to the Central Govt to avenge the Uri attack, was what was eventually undertaken by troops of 9 and 4 Special Forces Battalions, assisted by the Ghattak Platoons of...
A Letter to My Fellow Kashmiris
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Jul , 2016
My Dear Fellow Kashmiris, The summer of discontent is once again haunting the Valley; not for the first time though. The loss of so many young lives, injuries to many others makes me wonder why...
India hits the Great Wall as China refuses to play ball on India seeking NSG...
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jun , 2016
China cleverly masked its real reasons for opposition to the Indian membership by insisting on the plea that India was not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). This...
MTCR and membership of NSG: Implications for India
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jun , 2016
Ever since Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s fourth visit to the United States of America a fortnight back, India’s membership of Missile Control Technology Regime (MTCR) and its push to...
America Hit Again: This Time by Home Grown Terrorist
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jun , 2016
It is here that America is going to face a serious challenge. In a democratic set-up, where human dignity and human rights are jealously guarded by the press, electronic media, judiciary, the...
Modi, Ashraf Ghani in Iran and killing of Mullah Mansour
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 May , 2016
Use of Chahbahar Port by India and Afghanistan will enable both countries to carry out their trade without being dependent on Pakistan. It will also benefit Iran as the use of this port facility...
Al Qaeda gives way to IS: But will it survive?
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 May , 2016
For nearly two years now, the world has been dealing with a new and most brutal form of terrorism represented by ISIS; the acronym stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. However, during this...
Pakistan: Allah, Army and America continue to remain relevant
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Apr , 2016
In the eighties, due to the patronage showered on them by the military dictator, Gen Zia-ul-Haq, the radical Islamic parties too became powerful and were co-opted into the governance of the...
Myth of Economic Disparity in Kashmir
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Book Excerpt: Kashmir: Its Aborigines and their Exodus | Date: 04 Nov , 2015
Recently, on a TV news channel while covering an event on Kashmir, reporting from Srinagar the reporter said that ‘Though Kashmiri Pandits have left the Valley, they had cornered most of the jobs...