IDR Blog
For India, CPEC is a Corridor to Nowhere
One fails to understand why Beijing is so adamant to not re-open the Himalayan land ports between India and Tibet, while at the same time, it is ‘inviting’ New Delhi to join the CPEC bandwagon The Indian media always gets excited when there is a possibility of a thaw with Pakistan. One can’t do anything about it; it is too deeply engrained...
Russia’s Search for a New Ground in Pakistan
Russia is all set to rebuild its relations with Pakistan, a move that could be a game-changer for both Pakistan and South Asia. Given the dynamic strategic parameters in South Asia and a policy transition that might overcome the long drawn US-Russia Cold War rivalry that had also disconnected Russia from Pakistan, Moscow is now busy resetting...
PLA out of the TAR Standing Committee
A new radical ‘reform’ is bound to create a lot of resentment in the ranks of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA): generals commanding a military district or area have been removed from the Regional/Provincial Standing Committees of the Chinese Communist Party. They used to play an influential role in the past. Since the days of the Revolution...
India should be Prepared for more Cross-Border Strikes
The sinister Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan and its underlings disturb law and order in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) on flimsy grounds. Recently, when the J&K government decided to issue domicile certificates to the refugees who had migrated from Pakistan, the separatists criticised the move and alleged that the government is doing so...
Chiefs of Nawaz Sharif
In his autobiography Gen Pervez Musharraf comments on the civil-military (dis)balance in Pakistan thus, “I know that in western democracies, military personnel on active duty, especially the chiefs, are not supposed to make political statements. But then, in western democracies neither do the heads of government and state perennially drag...