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Cancellation of the SAARC Summit: Has India Succeeded in Isolating Pakistan Regionally?
India’s announcement that it will not participate in the forthcoming 19th SAARC summit scheduled to be held in Islamabad did not come as a surprise. There was already a rethink afoot on India’s participation after the shabby treatment meted out to Home Minister Rajnath Singh during his visit to Islamabad to attend the SAARC Home...
Modi discovers B-Bomb against Pakistan
Balochistan is now being discussed at the international forums and western capitals are abuzz with the alleged atrocities by the Pakistani government on Balochis, almost all of whom resent being ruled by Islamabad, How it came to be a province of Pakistan is also been looked into, whereas Kashmir, although currently in turmoil for almost 63...
Lessons from the Uri Attack
The Pakistan Army has been using suicide modules of the Lashkar e Taiba (LeT) and Jaish e Mohammed (JeM) to launch terror attacks against targets in India, especially in J&K, for a long time now. After the Mumbai terror attack of November 2008, there was a five year lull, due to fear of conventional retaliation by the Indian military....
A Tale of Two Cities
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness… No one writes like this any more. Charles Dickens would approve. After all he wrote those immortal...
Proxy War by Pakistan : Need for Credible Indian Response
Pakistan has been waging a relentless and an intense proxy war against India since 1989 in the form of sponsoring cross border terrorism, infiltrating terrorists across the LOC and providing active, unstinting and open support to militancy in J&K. The hard reality in Pakistan is that the Pakistan Army is the undisputed and the main power...