Articles By Rakesh Kr Sinha
‘Farewell to Arms‘ in Siachen : Not likely
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Nov , 2017
The word ‘Siachen’ means ‘the place of white roses’. This may be a rare linguistic irony to confer such an exotic name to a place devoid of any sign of life. Siachen is the world’s...
Sorry Farooq Abdullah: PoK is ours
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Nov , 2017
“I tell them in plain terms – not only the people of India, but also to the world – that the part (of J&K) which is with Pakistan (PoK) belongs to Pakistan and this side to India. This...
Central Armed Police Forces: Do we really care?
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Oct , 2017
The Police Commemoration Day is observed on October 21st every year. Since Independence, 34,418 Police personnel have sacrificed their lives for safeguarding the integrity of the nation and...
Rohingya Muslims: Failure of ‘Two Nation Theory’ of Pakistan
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Sep , 2017
The Indian subcontinent had to confront an ideological falsehood called ‘Two Nation Theory’ denting the national consciousness at the time when the national movement was entering its last...
Floods in India: A challenge for governance and diplomacy
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Aug , 2017
World Resource Institute (WRI), a global research organization, has developed an online tool for analyzing the population affected by flood each year in a country. India leads the list of 163...
Charlottesville Protests: USA at a Threshold of a Bitter Racial Conflict
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Aug , 2017
A group of about 500 people chanting “White Lives Matter” and “Unite the Right” suddenly descended on 12th Aug 2017 to Charlottesville (Virginia) to protest the removal of a statue...
Blockade of Qatar: Why Saudi led group may not succeed?
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Aug , 2017
On June 5, 2017 four Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries including Saudi Arabia cut ties with Qatar reproving it of fostering “terrorist” groups and of links to Riyadh’s arch-rival Iran. The...
Pakistan, hub of terrorism, snubbed by Trump in Riyadh
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 May , 2017
An Arab Islamic American Summit was held in Riyadh on May 21, 2017 attended by US President Donald Trump, leaders and representatives of 55 Arab and Muslim-dominated countries focusing on unity...
Kulbhushan Jadhav - ICJ verdict: Real battle will have to be fought in Pak...
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 May , 2017
The theory of ‘Positivism’ is one of the bases of International Law which says that the law is what exists as contrast to the law that ought to be. It relies on the actual practice of the...
Blasphemy Laws of Pakistan: Lynching of Mashal Khan
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Apr , 2017
Mashal Khan, a student of Journalism, in his early twenties, was attacked and killed by a vigilante mob at the Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan (Pakistan) in the broad daylight few days ago....
Syrian regime using chemical weapon: Time for USA to stand and be counted
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Date: 15 Apr , 2017
In one of the most horrific acts in the human history of a State using chemical weapon in a civil war on its own citizen, Assad attacked the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun in the Idlib province...
Islamic Terrorism in Bangladesh: Indian Sub-continent must get its act together
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Apr , 2017
Bangladesh has concluded its five days long “Operation Twilight” by army para commandos at a militant den in Shibbari area of Sylhet. Director of Military Intelligence Brig Gen Fakhrul Ahsan...
London Westminster Bridge attacks: Another ISIS ‘lone wolf’ ?
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Mar , 2017
The terrorist attack near the British Parliament in which a man rammed a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in London, resembles a common pattern by attackers who have been widely called...
Military courts in Pakistan: A failed state syndrome
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Mar , 2017
Pakistani media has reported that the political parties have agreed to revive the Military Courts for trying “hardcore” militants for a period of two years for which a Bill will be tabled in...
Reclaim PoK: India’s Statutory Obligation
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2016
The Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) reminds this nation of an unfinished task of the partition, a scar, deep somewhere in the collective conscience of this country. The PoK can be broadly...
After Surgical Strikes: Demolish Terror Finance System
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Oct , 2016
The events following the Uri terrorist attacks have witnessed many diplomatic maneuverings by both India and Pakistan at the United Nations that continued at other International forums too and...
Terrorist Attacks and Our Border Management
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Sep , 2016
A group of Jaish-e-Mohammad fidayeens attacked an Indian infantry installation at Uri in Jammu and Kashmir at the wee hours on 18th Sept 2016 in which 17 Army jawans were killed and 19 others...
Balochistan issues and International Law
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Sep , 2016
Oppenheim defines ‘intervention’ as “dictatorial interference by a State in the affairs of another State for the purpose of maintaining or altering the actual condition of things”. The...
Irom Chanu Sharmila and AFSPA: The fight continues...
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Aug , 2016
Irom Sharmila became a political icon almost at power with Suu Kyi, Martin Lither King or a Nelson Mandela. But the difference is that she has chosen to build upon her political iconisation and...
International Terrorism and the case of Burhan Wani
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Jul , 2016
Hijbul Mujahedeen (Party of Holy Warriors) is a terrorist organization founded in 1989 at Muzaffarabad in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) fighting a low intensity proxy war against India for the...