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Tibet : Strategic Frontier of India
India has a border of 4057 Kms with China of which more than 90% is bordering Tibet and less than 10% borders the Xinjiang Province of China. In the State of Jammu and Kashmir 78,000 Sq Kms is under illegal occupation of Pakistan and 35,500 Sq Kms are under the illegal occupation of China. Even the Strategic Western Highway linking...
Chinese Incursions: 60 years ago
Following the recent Chinese incursion in Burtse in Ladakh and the quick ‘answer’ from the Indian forces who dismantled the structure built by the Chinese, it is interesting to look at what happened nearly 60 years ago at Shipki La, the pass between Himachal Pradesh and Tibet. In fact, the Chinese troops had deliberately crossed the pass...
Unfolding the 1965 Indo Pakistan War: 50 Years Ago this day
The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, also known as the Second Kashmir War was one of the most important conflicts in the region of South-East Asia during the post-World War II period. The conflict itself was not an isolated incident. Tensions between these two actors originated with the Partition of British India in 1947 and diverged into the 1947...
Russia-Pakistan tango: Should India worry?
Two news items on a single day (September 10) in Pakistan’s newspapers need India’s attention for the growing cooperation between Pakistan and Russian Federation -one a hostile neighbor and the other, an old ally that remains, despite the rapidly changing scenario, the largest supplier of military hardware. Russia has already begun...
Counter Pakistan propaganda attracting Kashmiri youth towards terrorism
Pakistan has, of late, launched a propaganda campaign designed to attract Kashmir youth towards the path of terrorism by spread of misinformation through the social media. Burhan Muzaffar Wani, a terrorist aligned with the Hizbul Mujahedeen (HM) and functioning in South Kashmir posted a video on a Face Book page about a month back. He was seen...