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Pakistan’s Perfidy and India’s Response
In India, there was widespread outrage against Pakistan post the Uri attack. The entire nation is looking for drastic retaliatory action and there was tremendous pressure of the government to act. In simple words – the people are baying for blood. The Indian Army has, in an unprecedented tactical manoeuvre, conducted trans-LOC raids on...
Indus Waters Treaty: Nehru’s Original Himalayan Blunder
“No armies with bombs and shellfire could devastate a land so thoroughly as Pakistan could be devastated by the simple expedient of India’s permanently shutting off the source of waters that keep the fields and people of Pakistan green.” – David Lilienthal, former chief of the Tennessee Valley Authority, US The ‘Aqua Bomb’ is truly...
India Finally Sheds Two Decades of ‘Strategic Restraint’ against Pakistan
India’s military strikes across the LOC on Pakistan Army harboured terrorists launching pads in the early hours of September 29 2016 marks a paradigm shift in India’s much needed dispensing of ‘Strategic Restraint’ against Pakistan’s military provocations. India by now has clearly signalled politically, diplomatically and yesterday...
The Love Story of a Soldier
This article was first published on Newslaundry: Read original article here: http://www.newslaundry.com/2016/09/30/the-love-story-of-a-soldier/ He was an Indian soldier, she was a Kashmiri. Could this have a happy ending? Spring was in full bloom in the Vale of Kashmir and sitting in the 100-year-old Chinar Hut, as the Northern Army...
DPRK’s Nuclear Provocations and the Indian Response
On 9 September 2016, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) defied international pressure and conducted its fifth nuclear test. Criticising the test, the Government of India described it as a “matter of grave concern”.1 India not only urged DPRK to “refrain from such tests,” which gravely affect regional peace and...