Articles By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch
Modi-Xi Mamallapuram Summit
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Oct , 2019
Following up on the first informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping at Wuhan in China during April 2018, the second informal summit between the two leaders was...
Honouring Braves and Sleeping with Terrorists
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Oct , 2019
Indian-American Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal, posted as Harris County Sheriff’s Deputy, was shot dead on September 28 while on duty. According to a senior police officer, Dhaliwal, who was in his early...
US Global Policing - exclusive self-interests
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2019
Some US lawmakers including Senators Elizabeth Warren (also contesting next presidential election) and Mark Warner, both Democrats, have expressed concern over the slow pace of normalization in...
Defence against Drones
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2019
The Houthi drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s Abaqiq and Khurais oil facilities on September 14 have once again brought forth the deadly dimension of this type of disruptive threat. Not that this...
Imran – Pakistan’s Nuclear Bogeyman
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Oct , 2019
At the recent 74th UNGA meet, Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan wagged the nuclear tail; threatening the world in general and India in particular, in the event of India and Pakistan going to war. Prior...
Saudi Setback in Yemen
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Oct , 2019
Within a fortnight of the Houthi drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s Aramco’s Abqaiq refinery and the Khurais oil field on September 14 that disrupted oil production and export capacity to the tune...
Imran’s Unga-Bunga at UNGA
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Sep , 2019
Before Pakistani PM Imran Khan sang his unga-bunga at the 74th session of UNGA on September 27, two incidents were noticeable. On September 26, US acting Assistant Secretary for South and Central...
Drone War Advents India
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Sep , 2019
Years back Musharraf had said, “Osama-bin-Laden, Ayman-al-Zawahiri, Haqqanis are our heroes ….. We trained the LeT against India.” Sartaj Aziz, Advisor on Foreign Affairs to Pak PM Nawaz...
Howdy Modi, Howdy Trump
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Sep , 2019
The ‘Howdy Modi’ mega event at Houston’s NRG stadium on September 22 could easily be called ‘Howdy Modi, Howdy Trump’ because while Houston said howdy to Modi, Modi said howdy to Trump,...
Wuhan to Chennai and China’s ‘Choga’ Game
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Sep , 2019
Our media appears quite content over China indicating that the Kashmir issue may not be a major topic of discussion during the forthcoming second informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra...
Valley Traders on Terror Radar - and what is needed
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Sep , 2019
No sooner did NSA Ajit Doval state that not one bullet had been fired in J&K past one month, two Urdu-Punjabi speaking terrorists struck at the house of wholesale fruit trader Abdul Hamid Rather...
Another Face Off With PLA in Pangong Tso Area
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Sep , 2019
Another face off between an Indian Army patrol and PLA occurred north of Pangong Tso Lake on September 11, 2019, which some media reports describe as “scuffle”. Media quoting an unnamed...
Integrating Madrassa Education
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Sep , 2019
It is no secret that the deep state of Middle East and the West were behind the installation of Mohamed Morsi as President of Egypt following the Egyptian Revolution in 2011. Morsi led the...
US-Taliban Deal will not reduce Af-Pak flux
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Sep , 2019
Media reports of mid-August 2019, quoting Taliban sources, had stated that US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan will be over in 14 months, which possibly was keeping in mind that President Donald...
Imran Khan – from PM to Ambassador
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Sep , 2019
A recent report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) prepared for the US Congress confirms that during Imran Khan’s tenure as prime minister, the Pakistani army has retained dominant...
Modi-Putin Bilateral Summit 2019
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Sep , 2019
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to attend the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok and hold the annual bilateral summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 4-5. Modi...
Uniformity in Uniform
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 Aug , 2019
Recent media reports indicate that the Army has decided to do away with differences in the attires of officers above the rank of Colonel. The move is being hailed to usher in uniformity in...
Mediation hopes dashed, Pakistan goes Erratic
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Aug , 2019
India has consistently informed all nations, including the US, that Jammu and Kashmir is an internal issue of India, the state having formally acceded to India on October 26, 1947. The Maharaja of...
CDS – will it include comprehensive reform?
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Aug , 2019
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement on August 15 that India will have a CDS to head the Army, Navy and Air Force was in his characteristic style of springing surprises, be it...
Politics over J&K Lockdown and Way Ahead
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Aug , 2019
Politicization of the J&K lockdown has been gaining momentum with those opposing government move counting days and hours. The crescendo can be expected to rise with each passing day. Absence of...