Articles in Issues
After Surgical Strikes: Demolish Terror Finance System
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Oct , 2016
The events following the Uri terrorist attacks have witnessed many diplomatic maneuverings by both India and Pakistan at the United Nations that continued at other International forums too and...
Surgical Strike: Would Pakistan have learnt its lesson?
By: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Oct , 2016
It was in the wee hours of 18 Sep 2016 that four heavily armed terrorists, who had earlier infiltrated across the Line of Control (LOC), in the Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), attacked an...
Post Uri: Moving For a Coherent Policy towards Pakistan
By: Bhaskar Roy | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 02 Oct , 2016
The Pak-based terrorist attack on the Indian army camp in Uri on September 18, which killed 19 Indian soldiers, has hit a raw nerve in India. This audacious, well planned attack across the LOC...
Can Pakistan’s Nuclear Blackmail Threat Against India Hold
By: Brig NK Bhatia, SM (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Oct , 2016
Consider the following statement made by Pakistan’s Defense Minister Asif Mohammad Kwaja in an interview to Pakistan Urdu news TV channel on 26 September; “Tactical weapons, our programmes...
India’s ‘Surgical Strike’ Across the LoC: A Preliminary Assessment
By: Angshuman Choudhury | Issue: Courtesy: IPCS | Date: 01 Oct , 2016
On 29 September 2016, the Indian Army’s Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) announced that India had conducted overnight pre-emptive ‘surgical strikes’ against terrorist targets along...
Has Uri been Finally Avenged?
By: Lt Gen (Dr) JS Bajwa | Issue: Courtesy: The New Indian Express | Date: 30 Sep , 2016
As tactical military operations, these raids were an outstanding success. But a larger question remains. India’s forces carried out a series of successful pre-emptive surgical strikes 3-5 km...
Connecting Northeast: Key to Asian Sub-Regional Linkages
By: Sudip Bhattacharyya | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 30 Sep , 2016
The third North East Connectivity Summit was organized in Agartala from September 21-23, 2016 against the backdrop of a number of positive developments. These are the unprecedented focus on...
Why India can’t Afford a Chinese Dalai Lama
By: Bhaskar Dutta Baruah | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Sep , 2016
A country’s defence strategy is not made after an enemy attack – steps taken during war time (or signs signalling a war) are more of a tactical nature rather than strategic. Strategy is a...
Towards Solving Problems in the Kashmir Valley
By: Lt Gen NS Bawa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Sep , 2016
The Kashmir Valley has been on the boil for nearly three months now following the killing of Burhan Wani – a terrorist – by the security forces. Efforts by the ruling political parties at the...
The Uri Fiasco and Ensuring Accountability
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Sep , 2016
While it is not known as to what conclusions the Army’s Court of Inquiry has arrived at over the Uri fiasco, it needs little intuition or professional knowledge to conclude that there were...
Pak Moles: Are Peaceniks Legitimizing Acts of Rogue State?
By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Sep , 2016
The Brigade of Peaceniks, comprising sundry elements in the print and electronic media, NGOs, leftists and ex-ministers, which had lain low in the initial days of the Uri attack, is once again...
China-Russia ‘Joint Sea-2016’ Drill: Timely Convergence or Strong Signal?
By: Dr Rajeev Kumar | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 27 Sep , 2016
Chinese and Russian navies concluded their week-long “Joint Sea-2016” drill from 13-19 September 2016. These are the fifth Sino-Russian ‘Joint Sea’ drills since 2012. They are the single...
Pakistan will have to Pay a Price for Irresponsible Conduct
By: Amb. Hardeep Singh Puri | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 26 Sep , 2016
Absent good advice, democratically elected leaders are capable of making serious mistakes which have far-reaching repercussions on the future of their country. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz...
PSLV-C35 Successfully Launches Eight Satellites into Two Different Orbits in...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Sep , 2016
In its thirty seventh flight (PSLV-C35), ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle successfully launched the 371 kg SCATSAT-1 Satellite along with seven co-passenger satellites today morning...
Panchsheel: It is right for Our Country, for Asia and for the World or Born...
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 25 Sep , 2016
The ‘Agreement on Trade and Intercourse between Tibet Region of China and India’ was signed April 29, 1954 in Beijing. It has remained (in) famous for its preamble, containing the Five...
No Signs of Peace in South Asia: Reflections from Uri Terror Attack
By: Indrajit Sharma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Sep , 2016
The Global Peace Index (GPI), 2016 identifies South Asia as one of the least peaceful regions in the world. Out of the nine regions (in the world) South Asia positions at eighth. Globally, India...
Myanmar's Peace Conference: Working to end Decades of Ethnic Strife
By: Obja Borah Hazarika | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 24 Sep , 2016
Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi called for a ‘durable peace’ at the 21st Century Panglong Conference, or Union Peace Conference, on 31 August, 2016. The Panglong Conference, also...
Water Availability in Pakistan
By: Col Harjeet Singh | Issue: Vol 25.4 Oct-Dec 2010 | Date: 23 Sep , 2016
There appears to be a growing perception of Indian wrongdoing on water in Pakistani minds. While India–Pakistan relations are not on even keel, another canard can only add to the already...
India signs deal to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets from France
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Sep , 2016
India today signed a deal to buy 36 high-tech Rafale fighters from France in the country’s first major acquisition of fighter aircraft in over two decades. Thales, a member of the Rafale team,...
L&T Bags Major Order from Vietnam Border Guard for High Speed Patrol Vessels
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Sep , 2016
At USD 99.7 million it is the biggest export order given to a private Indian Shipyard till date Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has signed the principle contract with Vietnam Border Guard valued at USD...