Nilesh Kunwar, Author at Indian Defence Review

Articles By Nilesh Kunwar

Balochistan: Yet Another False Encounter of the ‘Routine’ Kind

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Jul , 2022

When armed gunmen of Baloch Liberation Army [BLA] abducted Lt Col Laiq Baig Mirza of Pakistan army and his cousin Umer Javed on the night of July 12/13, Pakistan army launched a swift rescue...

Kargil War: Good, Bad and the Ugly!

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Date: 21 Jul , 2022

Since war begets nothing but death and destruction, to say that it also brings out some good may appear paradoxical. Yet, despite the bestial behaviour displayed by Pakistan army during the...

Kargil War 1999: Capture of Point 5770 -'Navdeep Top'

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jul , 2022

Background 23 years may have passed by, but memories of the exemplary valour exhibited and sacrifices made by the Indian armed forces during ‘Operation Vijay’ are as fresh in everyone’s...

Amarnath Flash Flood and Indian Army’s Rescue Efforts

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2022

Last Friday’s flash flood of unprecedented magnitude on the route from Baltal to the Amarnath shrine in J&K that completely obliterated a base camp site of devotees was so sudden and substantial...

An Apprehension and Surrender in J&K

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jul , 2022

Coming on the heels of locals apprehending two armed Lashkar-e-Taiba [LeT] terrorists [including a self-styled commander’ responsible for many terror attacks and bomb blasts] in Tukson Dhok...

Disciplining Detractors, the Pakistan Army Way!

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Date: 04 Jul , 2022

It’s again a bouquet of good and bad news as well as a set of amazing coincidences from Pakistan that border on the para-normal. The bad news is that the car in which senior Pakistani...

Defeating Pakistan Army’s Proxy War in Kashmir

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jul , 2022

Pakistan army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa’s post-Article 370 abrogation rant that “Pakistan Army firmly stands by the Kashmiris in their just struggle to the very end,” and that “We are...

Pakistan: Land of 'Disappearances' and 'Reappearances'

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Jun , 2022

Pakistan is a strange land where people seem to be ‘appearing’, ‘disappearing’ and ‘reappearing’ all the time. While this strange occurrence follows no discernable pattern, but it...

Defaming the Army: Rawalpindi Strikes Back!

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jun , 2022

After having repeatedly warned the public “not to drag Pakistan armed forces and their leadership in [the] ongoing political discourse in the country,” Rawalpindi finally got down to walking its...

Pakistan: Why Enforced Disappearances go Unpunished!

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jun , 2022

Islamabad High Court [IHC] Chief Justice Athar Minallah’s directions that the Federal Government should serve notices on General Pervez Musharraf and all other “successor Chief...

Countering Targeted Killings in Kashmir

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jun , 2022

By targeting defenceless men and women belonging to the indigenous minority Hindu community as well as non-locals working in Kashmir, Pakistan sponsored terrorists have succeeded in creating a...

Religious Radicalisation in Kashmir: ‘Death’ of a Society

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jun , 2022

On broaching the issue of religious radicalisation in Kashmir, the stock reply is that this is sheer propaganda as there’s no such thing here. This reply is invariably followed by a lengthy...

Judiciary and Pakistan’s ‘State Policy’ of Enforced Disappearances

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jun , 2022

How acute is the chronic malaise of unchecked enforced disappearances afflicting Pakistan can be gauged from the fact that at least eight out of the top ten google search results for “land of...

Decoding Targeted Killings in Kashmir

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May , 2022

Tuesday, May 24, turned out to be yet another bloody day in Kashmir. While a targeted attack in the Soura area of Srinagar left a policeman dead and his seven-year-old daughter injured, three...

Pakistan: Islamabad versus Rawalpindi

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 May , 2022

Things don’t seem to be going too well for Pakistan. While the country’s financial condition continues to worsen with each passing day, with former Prime Minister Imran Khan declaring...

Pakistan Army: Twice ‘Bitten’ by TTP, Yet Not Shy!

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 May , 2022

For years, Pakistan army’s media wing Inter Services Public Relation [ISPR] had been claiming that it was the unholy nexus between New Delhi and previous regimes in Kabul which was solely...

CPEC: a Tale of ‘Iron-Clad’ Friendship and Weak Bridges

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Date: 10 May , 2022

Frightening videos of the Hassanabad concrete bridge on Karakoram Highway being washed away in a matter of seconds is a grim reminder of how human apathy towards climate and environment has...

Indian Army’s ‘Raksha Atmanirbharta’ [Defence Self-Dependency] Seminar...

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 May , 2022

Being responsible for maintaining sanctity of both the tenuous Indo-Pak and Sino Indian borders in J&K and Ladakh regions, Udhampur based Headquarters Northern Command of Indian Army is most...

Pakistan: Perils of Keeping Snakes in the Backyard

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Date: 25 Apr , 2022

A decade ago, while addressing at a joint press conference during her Pakistan visit, the then US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton cautioned Islamabad about the perils of nurturing...

Pakistan’s Deteriorating Civil-Military Relations

By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Apr , 2022

With Pakistan army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa alleging that “hostile forces” are trying to “create wedge between [Pakistan] army and population,” it’s time for the Rawalpindi and Inter...