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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...
China Shields Masood Azhar and Betrays India in Fight against Terror
One of the worlds’s most cited philosophers, Noam Chomsky once said, “Everybody is worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there is a really easy way: Stop participating in it.” This is a simple phrase but with loaded meaning telling us about the lies, prejudices and falsehood in the nation’s approach towards dealing with the scourge...
China Bares Fangs
By blocking the move by the United Nations to act against Masood Azhar, JeM chief, for his terrorist activities and masterminding the terrorist attack on the IAF base at Patahnkot on January 2, China has unambiguously declared that it sides with Pakistan in latter’s anti-India terrorist activities. Not that it was not known but removing any...