Articles By Pinaki Bhattacharya
Chinese Longue Duree: PLA Modernisation
By: Pinaki Bhattacharya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 05 Jun , 2013
An impressionable Henry Kissinger, the then U.S. national security adviser, was clearly awed by the presence of his Chinese interlocutor, Zhou Enlai, steeped in revolutionary history and the...
Need a Muscular Indian Strategy in Afghanistan
By: Pinaki Bhattacharya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 19 Mar , 2013
Even at the cost of sounding bellicose with that expressed need in the title of this paper, this writer will argue that Afghanistan stands as a shining example of the success of the country’s...
End game in Afghanistan
By: Pinaki Bhattacharya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 11 Nov , 2011
Then Associated Press (AP) published a story on 29 August 2010 about how Afghan government officials outed the secret about U.S. talks with the Taliban, which had reached a fairly substantive...
Pakistan: Unstable and Not at Peace - III
By: Pinaki Bhattacharya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 06 Jul , 2011
Dysfunctional Polity: The duopoly of Pakistan’s polity denoted by Zulfiqar Ali–Benazir Bhutto family of Asaf Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif family continues unabated in the feudal,...
Pakistan: Unstable and Not at Peace - II
By: Pinaki Bhattacharya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 05 Jul , 2011
The current spate of violence by the Deobandis against the Barelvis began after the 1990 formation of Sunni Tehreek (ST) by Mohammad Salim Qadri. The organisation was believed to be an offshoot...
Pakistan: Unstable and Not at Peace - I
By: Pinaki Bhattacharya | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 04 Jul , 2011
Pakistan’s polity is in a crisis. Its society is in turmoil. And the country is in a state of flux, waiting to survive the deluge and see another day. On top of all that comes the deepening...