Articles By Nilesh Kunwar
FATF and India’s ‘Role’ in Pakistan’s Grey Listing
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Date: 27 Jul , 2021
Pakistan’s embarrassment of being yet once again retained on the grey list of international terror financing watchdog Financial Action Task Force [FATF], is understandable. However, what’s...
Pakistan’s Dasu Bus Tragedy: Accident or ‘Attack’?
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Date: 19 Jul , 2021
The tragic incident of July 14 in which a bus carrying Chinese nationals working at Dusa hydropower plant in Kohistanregion of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa [KP] province alongwith Pakistan security staff...
Afghanistan: Beijing and Islamabad’s Illusive Outrage on US Troops Withdrawal
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jul , 2021
While addressing troops at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan on May 25, 2014, the then US President Barack Obama gave many assurances, including that of an early withdrawal of US forces from...
Before Balochi Insurgents, Imran Khan Needs to Talk to Army
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2021
It’s no secret that Pakistan army has been brutalising and terrorising the people of Balochistan ever since it illegally occupied this region in 1948.Those who think otherwise,just need to...
Pakistan: Where the Military Lectures Legislators on Political Correctness
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jul , 2021
“The perception that the ISI [Inter Services Intelligence of Pakistan army] may be involved in or interferes with matters with which an intelligence agency should not be concerned with,...
Shah Mehmood Qureshi: Maverick or Islamabad’s ‘Sounding Board’?
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jun , 2021
On June 24, The Express Tribune reported that “Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Wednesday [June 23] India was making attempts to misuse the forum of the Financial Action Task Force...
Prime Minister Imran Khan’s ‘Closed Door’ Policy on Uighur Persecution
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Jun , 2021
“Whatever issues we have with the Chinese, we speak behind closed doors” – Prime Minister Imran Khan There’s both good and bad news from Pakistan. The good news is that Prime Minister Imran...
UNGA President’s Kashmir Remarks: Doing a ‘Bhisti Nizam’
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jun , 2021
“Chamde ke sikka chalana” [issuing coins made of leather] is a common refrain used in India [and Pakistan] to describe brazen exploitation of power or authority by someone who has but a...
Gaza Conflict: If Both Israel and Hamas Won, then Who Lost?
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Date: 04 Jun , 2021
Since both Israel and Hamas are busy claiming “victory” after the truce which ended 11 days of intense bombardment and rocket attacks, it seems that the only losers in this senseless violence...
US-Taliban Peace Agreement: Future Prospects
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 May , 2021
It’s both good and bad news. The good part is pullout of US troops from Afghanistan which commenced on May 1 is going as per plan and putting an end its two-decade old “forever war.” The...
Army’s Helping Hand in Kashmir
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Date: 23 May , 2021
Some people associate the army in Kashmir only with anti-terrorist operations and there’s nothing wrong in this as our soldiers are in the thick of a proxy war unleashed by Pakistan in this...
No Place for Minorities in ‘Naya’ Pakistan!
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 May , 2021
Two years ago, while speaking on the occasion to mark 100 days of his government being in office, Prime Minister Imran Khan made many a boast and promises. Besides waxing eloquent on turning...
Sino-Pak Relations: About Friends and Masters
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Date: 13 May , 2021
The good news is that in its Global Trends 2021 reportpublished every four years, US National Intelligence Councilhas assessed that in the next two decades, Pakistan’s gross domestic product...
America’s Inglorious Afghanistan Foray
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 May , 2021
Since Washington never ceases waxing eloquent on how its actions are guided by lofty principles and high moral values, recent news reports of an alleged secret deal with its arch enemy Taliban...
The ‘Biggest Land Grabber’ of Pakistan
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 May , 2021
Pakistan army’s insatiable hunger for land is no secret. In fact it’s so pronounced that it even found prominence during the 2007 lawyers’ protest against Gen Pervez Musharraf’s decision...
Pakistan Army’s “Culture of Entitlement”
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Apr , 2021
If an outsider was to say that there’s rampant corruption in Pakistan army, especially within the top echelons, Pakistan army’s media wing Inter Services Public Relations [ISPR] would label...
Conviction of Terrorists in Pakistan
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 Mar , 2021
The fact that justice would ultimately elude US journalist Daniel Pearl who had been abducted and murdered in 2002 had become evident much before Pakistan Supreme Court’s acquittal of prime...
On Pakistan’s Minority Persecution ‘Concerns’
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Feb , 2021
Last Thursday, while speaking at a virtual meeting of United Nations Economic and Social Council on “Reimagining Equality: Eliminating Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination for all,”...
Pakistan’s FATF Farce
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Feb , 2021
While Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan repeatedly talks about his firm resolve to “not allow any militant groups to operate inside Pakistan,” but actions of his government to ensue this...
Fake News and Kashmir Media
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Date: 05 Feb , 2021
For the second time this month, a section of Kashmir’s Valley-based media is in the dock for circulating fake news. The last time, it was allegation of a fake encounter being driven by lure of...