Articles in Issues
Does SAARC have a Future?
By: NS Venkatraman | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 19 Oct , 2016
The recent cancellation of the 19th summit of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) that was scheduled to take place in Islamabad on November 15-16 has led to serious doubts as...
Thales introduces NS200 multi-mission radar for naval forces
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Oct , 2016
At Euronaval 2016, Thales presents NS200, its latest dual-axis multi-beam radar. NS200 brings advanced multi-mission capabilities to naval platforms up to destroyers with an unequalled 400 km...
The Importance of Passive and Active CBRN Defensive Measures
By: Dr Sanjay Badri-Maharaj | Issue: Courtesy: IDSA | Date: 18 Oct , 2016
Even before the Indian Army conducted surgical strikes against terrorist targets in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) on the night of 28-29 September 2016, Pakistan has long been fond of rattling...
Challenges to the Indo-Us Defence Relationship
By: Abhinav Dutta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Oct , 2016
There are, however, certain obstacles, which have not yielded the true potential of defence cooperation between the two strategic partners. Though the US has emerged as the largest defence...
The Most Remote Indian Village on the Indo-Tibet Border
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 17 Oct , 2016
I am posting below an telling email received from the most remote Indian village on the Indo-Tibet border. I have repeatedly mentioned on this blog the difficulty to connect the last village of...
China’s flag on Indian soil
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Oct , 2016
The eighth BRICS summit in Goa had its anti-India reverberations in the Kashmir Valley. Anti-national elements in Baramullah hoisted Pakistani and Chinese flags after Friday prayers. This...
Pakistan's Obsession with its 'Strategic Location'
By: Sumit Walia | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Oct , 2016
When Chinese Premier Xi Jinping visited Pakistan in April 2014 and signed the CPEC agreement, there were un-parallel jubilations in Pakistan. A country badly hit by terrorism1, political unrest,...
China’s Shenzhou 11 Mission: A Step Closer to a Permanent Space Station
By: Puneet Bhalla | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 16 Oct , 2016
On 15 September 2015, a Chinese Long March 2F rocket put Tiangong-2 (Heavenly Palace), the 8.6 tonne Chinese Space Laboratory into the low Earth orbit (LEO) of 380 kilometres. Over the next...
Indo Soviet relations need reboot?
By: Brig Arun Bajpai | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Oct , 2016
Two happenings of past three weeks, though unrelated have great perceptual relevance concerning Indo-Soviet relations as they stand today. On 18 Sep the Pakistan Army sponsored jihadis stuck the...
Damming the Brahmaputra: Is Beijing sending a message to New Delhi?
By: Amitava Mukherjee | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 15 Oct , 2016
For India, disturbing news has come from the Himalayas. China has announced that it would block the water of the river Xiabuku, a tributary of the Brahmaputra River (called Yarlung Tsangpo in...
India-China: Rasputin, Unholy Geopol and Chicken Sandwich
By: Bhaskar Dutta Baruah | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Oct , 2016
When China occupied Tibet, Prime Minister Nehru’s brows should have perspired, because he now had a monstrous red dragon to deal with, even as he struggled with mad dog Pakistan. But Defence...
China Loves Tibet: An Unacknowledged Victory for the Dalai Lama?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: http://claudearpi.blogspot.in/ | Date: 14 Oct , 2016
There was a time when the Chinese considered Tibet the most backward, uncultured part of the Middle Kingdom, mainly inhabited by barbarians. This is not the case anymore and this has important...
Pakistan's Counter-Terrorism Plan: All Talk and Little Action
By: Dr Sanchita Bhattacharya | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Monitor | Date: 13 Oct , 2016
In implementation of its National Action Plan (NAP) against terrorism, the Pakistani government, as reported on September 26, 2016, initiated a widespread fiscal crackdown against over 8,400...
Stop politicising the Armed Forces
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2016
The entire nation is dismayed at the vocal slugfest going on between the political parties on the national media. The political discourse has reached its lowest ebb with the choice of language...
Reclaim PoK: India’s Statutory Obligation
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2016
The Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) reminds this nation of an unfinished task of the partition, a scar, deep somewhere in the collective conscience of this country. The PoK can be broadly...
India’s Surgical Strikes into Pakistan: The Unintended Consequences
By: Dr Subhash Kapila | Issue: Courtesy: South Asia Analysis Group | Date: 11 Oct , 2016
India’s surgical strikes into Pakistan has not only been a game-changer for India’s strategic assertions but as an unintended consequence stirred more notably a domestic debate within...
CPEC, its economic viability and options for India
By: Sumit Walia | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Oct , 2016
We all have heard enough of US$ 46 billion Chinese investment project in Pakistan – CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor). It is the biggest foreign investment committed by China. China has...
Kashmiri Shops in Tourists Spots - Is there More than What Meets the Eye?
By: Sanjeev Nayyar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2016
While all suspect tax evasion and money laundering of corruption or crime proceeds merit investigation, the curious case of Kashmir shops that pay rent in excess of market rates but do not...
Indo-Pak Relations : Way Ahead
By: Lt Gen NS Bawa | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Oct , 2016
Under tremendous pressure of its population to act following the Uri attack, in which the nation lost its 18 brave soldiers (the death toll has already reached 20 with two soldiers succumbing to...
INSTC and CPEC: Conflicts and Politics of Corridors
By: Brig NK Bhatia, SM (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: CLAWS | Date: 09 Oct , 2016
South Asia is in for some exciting times ahead with fast changing geo political developments with primary focus being on connectivity. China’s quest to establish “One Belt One Road”, an...