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Pakistan: The most dangerous country in the world
The subcontinent of South Asia has inexorably been developing into a cauldron of violence ever since the origins of Islam in Arabia and its steady expansion to the east. Here it clashed with Hinduism a religion that was an antithesis of Islam and over the centuries this unhappy mix has been smoldering and has now reached a point where there is...
Understanding the Article 370
The recent suggestion of the Gujarat chief minister and BJP’s Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi at a rally in Jammu that the nation should debate the usefulness of the Article 370 of the Indian Constitution that grants special rights to the state of Jammu and Kashmir has caused a hue and cry in the political circles. It has...
Siachen: An episode to Remember
In the troubled relationship of India with Pakistan, there have been very few occasions when the latter desired a genuine end to some of the problems. Siachen belongs to this rarest of the rare category. The event belongs to the period of Gen Zia-ul-Haq, who had seized power in Pakistan in 1977 and made himself the President and the Chief of...
I Feel Cheated...
This is an extract of redressal of grievance by an Army officer regarding the degradation of status, submitted to the Central Government through proper channels vide Letter No. 533/ARK/ROG dated 29 October 1993. It is pertinent in view of the accumulated grievances over the years in the armed forces, which has now resulted in the rejection of...
सेना और व्यवस्था में न पनपे आशंका
पाकिस्तान के एक जनरल ने कहा था- ‘अगर भारतीय सेना टूट जाए, तो भारत को तोड़ा जा सकता है।’ यह वह बिंदु है, जिस दिशा में पाकिस्तान लगातार...