IDR Blog
What has become of Taliban in Afghanistan?
Taliban has all along been considered a formidable, resilient unified front with an effective chain of command. But, like every other entity that is prone to change, or in this case, decline, the fissures within Taliban and the extraneous challenges that are being mounted against it, have certainly left a deleterious impact on this movement....
War crimes trial in Bangladesh: Pakistan stands exposed
The war crime trials in Bangladesh are the unfinished agenda of the Liberation War of the Bangladeshi people who had won their liberation from Pakistan on 16 December 1971. These war criminals had sided with the raiding Pakistani forces in 1971 and committed extreme atrocities on Bengali people. The country is now trying to complete this by...
Canada welcomes Syrian refugees: Welcome departure from North American security obsession
On December 20th, Canada’s Minister of Immigration and Citizenship, John McCallum announced Canada’s revised plans to resettle 50,000 Syrians by the end of 2016. This is an extension of the new Liberal government’s pledge to resettle 25,000 government and privately-sponsored Syrian refugees – 10,000 by the end of December and 15,000 by...
What is in name? The politics of naming Pakistani Missiles
After its inception in 1947, the first dilemma that the newly-born state of Pakistan faced was how to define its identity. Since Pakistan was the result of a demand for a separate homeland for the Indian subcontinent’s Muslims, its identity had to inevitably hinge on Islam. In contrast to this parochialism, India projected herself as the...
How America Replaced Russia as India’s Largest Arms Supplier
India and the US have become closer militarily and strategically than they have ever been before. How did that happen so soon? The large Russian was almost apoplectic. “The MI-24 is a battle-tested helicopter. There was nothing that the Afghan Mujahideen feared more than this helicopter on the horizon. Yet, your government wants to buy the...