IDR Blog
A Curious Case of the Tail Wagging the Dog
Recently, we had the strange case of China setting aside its claims to great power responsibility by taking action at preventing UN sanctions against a known terrorist, Masood Azhar, Chief of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), a prominent terror organization from Pakistan, which has engineered a number of cross border attacks in India, the most...
Satellite for SAARC: Pakistan’s Missed Opportunity
Recently, Pakistan’s high commissioner in Delhi Abdul Basit announced that the peace process between India and Pakistan stands suspended. Over the years the India-Pakistan bilateral talk process has been more like a sinusoidal curve with crests and troughs, but not reaching to any definitive conclusions. Almost for the last three decades, the...
India’s Foreign Policy Challenges in the Middle East 2016
India in 2016 is faced with serious foreign policy predicaments in its Middle East foreign policy formulations in terms of coherent strategic choices cutting through the complicated maze of regional power rivalries and a return of Great Power interventions casting complicated shadows on regional power-play. The Middle East today is witnessing...
Setback to India’s Pak Policy and the China Factor
Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India, Abdul Basit practically scuttled the progress of the bilateral peace process when he indicated (April 07) in New Delhi that the talks between India and Pakistan was suspended, and there was no reciprocal visit on agenda by an Indian investigation team to Pakistan. A Pakistani Joint Intelligence Team...
Gen Zorawar Singh: The Great Warrior
Gen Zorawar Singh Kalhuria was born in a Rajput family of Kulhar, now called Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh in 1786. Very little is known about his early life. He left his home at an early age of 16 and took up a job as a private servant of Rana Jaswant Singh, Jagirdar of present day Ramnagar. It was here that he learnt riding, archery and...