Articles By KN Pandita

Fast-tracking of Indo-Pacific Partnership

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...

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A new chapter in India-Saudi relations

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...

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Isn’t the Dragon getting oversized?

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...

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Iran in New Regional Alignment

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...

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Pakistan finds a new defence partner

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...

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Pakistan cannot integrate PoK

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...

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India must help defuse Iran-US tension

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...

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Dissection of Pak’s frustration

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...

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Depoliticizing Kashmir is the way out

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...

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Why India rejects mediation

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...

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A Terrorist State Clamouring for Peace

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...

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Emerging political scenario in the sub-continent

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...

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Strangulating the Neelam Valley

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...

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South Asian Nuclear Power in a Debt Trap

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...

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Goodwill dialogue before political dialogue

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...

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Re-structuring of the RR Headquarter?

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...

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Convergence of the strongest and the largest

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...

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The US-Pakistan relations at crossroads

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...

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The breaking of impasse in Kashmir

The breaking of impasse in Kashmir

By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Aug , 2018

In all probability the stalemate in J&K is finally heading towards an end and the legislators hitherto hibernating in suspended animation are gearing up for resumption of their normal function of...

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Imran is bidding for

Imran is bidding for "New Pakistan"

By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Aug , 2018

We cannot help looking somewhat askance when we are told that Imran Khan wants to make a “New Pakistan”. There is mystery in the term “New Pakistan” about what it actually means? In his...

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