Articles By KN Pandita
Sub-continent in the grip of disquiet
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Mar , 2021
Three countries of the Indian sub-continent — India, Pakistan and Afghanistan —- are bogged with grim disquiet whoseroots lie in the exclusivist beliefs of the Islamic State of Pakistan. After...
India and China: the “diplomacy of strings”
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Jan , 2021
Last week, a news item in Hindustan Times disclosed that our Defence Ministry would be doing a mega joint exercise in the Andaman Sea. The contingents of Indian Army, Navy, Air Force, and the...
Fast-tracking of Indo-Pacific Partnership
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jan , 2021
The Eurasian Times of 17 January reported de-classification of a US highly confidential ten-page report prepared by Assistant Secretary Robert C O’ Brian which, among other things, highlights...
A new chapter in India-Saudi relations
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Dec , 2020
In his six-day-long (9 – 14 December 2020) visit to the UAE and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Army Chief, General MM Naravane was given a red carpet reception by the hosts as it was the first visit...
Isn’t the Dragon getting oversized?
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Sep , 2020
Expansionism by force and by treachery is China’s well-known forte. If the originator of the chain-Hindi Bhai Bhainaiveté became its hopeless victim, bring not the onus to the doorsteps of...
Iran in New Regional Alignment
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Sep , 2020
CIA overplayed capitalist hegemonic role in Iran during the Iranian oil nationalization movement under Dr Mussadegh in the 1950s. Thereafter Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, inexperienced in national...
Pakistan finds a new defence partner
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Mar , 2020
Of late, Erdogan has begun to dream of becoming the global Islamic leader after the European Union rejected Turkey’s admission. Opting for Islamic card, he is cozying up with Imran Khan of...
Pakistan cannot integrate PoK
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Feb , 2020
In a formal statement, Pakistan foreign office spokesperson rubbished the rumours of Islamabad proposing the integration of PoK into the mainland and thus terminating the status of the region as...
India must help defuse Iran-US tension
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jan , 2020
After some select Asian countries, China, India, and Pakistan achieved nuclear capability, its impact on regional strategy was obvious. Even repercussions of the neo-proliferation possibility had...
Dissection of Pak’s frustration
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jan , 2020
Imran messaged his debut as Pak PM with India-Pak peace rhetoric. Pak army imagined that with a former popular cricketer as the show boy, it can repair its terror-daubed image and pass for a...
Depoliticizing Kashmir is the way out
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2019
Upturning of a plethora of Kashmir political rubble accumulated over seventy years is the sum and substance of Governor’s recent interview to some pressmen. It is for the first time that the...
Why India rejects mediation
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Aug , 2019
In 72-year-old Kashmir dispute, India persistently rejected third party mediation. Some superpowers volunteering to offer mediation are morally on the back foot to accept historical truths fearing...
A Terrorist State Clamouring for Peace
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jun , 2019
Hours before leaving for the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meet, Prime Minister Imran Khan in an interview to Sputnik, a Russian news agency, blew hot and...
Emerging political scenario in the sub-continent
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jun , 2019
Days ahead of the parliamentary election in our country, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan remarked in a press briefing that with a right-wing government in New Delhi chances for the resumption...
Strangulating the Neelam Valley
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Feb , 2019
Kashmir historian Kalhan Pandit (mid-12th century) has made a mention of river Krishnaganga several times in his chronicle Rajatarangini and has also given some useful hints about its geographical...
South Asian Nuclear Power in a Debt Trap
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Dec , 2018
It sounds ludicrous that Pakistan, a South Asian nuclear power, is caught in a debt trap and is beating every nerve to be bailed out. Amusingly, the debt trap is laid out by none other than the...
Goodwill dialogue before political dialogue
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Oct , 2018
As India announced cancellation of the proposed foreign ministers’ sit together on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session, Pakistani media has gone berserk in bringing accusations...
Re-structuring of the RR Headquarter?
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Sep , 2018
In a recent issue, the Daily Excelsior of Jammu informed that the Army was contemplating re-structuring of the Rashtriya Rifles Headquarters for better operational capability and strategic and...
Convergence of the strongest and the largest
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Sep , 2018
The US high power delegation led by the Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, and including the US Army Chief, has just concluded its visit to India. The two countries are moving towards closer...
The US-Pakistan relations at crossroads
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Sep , 2018
A fracas over a telephonic message from the Secretary of State Michael Pompeo to Imran Khan on 23 August only added to the already strained relations between the US and its former South Asian...