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Rohingyas a ‘Threat’ to National security
By: Dr Sudershan Kumar | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 23 Oct , 2017
The Rohingya crisis originating from Myanmar has caught the eyes of international arena. Voices of criticism against Myanmar could be heard from around the world but realities and intricacies...
Pak heading for military rule
By: Maj Gen Harsha Kakar | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 14 Oct , 2017
The recent statement, post the meeting between the Pak foreign minister, Khawaja Asif and the US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, included a comment indicating concerns about the future of...
Time for another Strike against Pakistan
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 09 Oct , 2017
The recent terrorist attack on a Border Security Force (BSF) Battalion Headquarters in Srinagar has confirmed three things beyond doubt. Firstly; in Pakistan alias Atankistan, the Army continues...
India can help diffuse North Korea crisis
By: Maj Gen Harsha Kakar | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 26 Sep , 2017
The recent North Korean missile launches and hydrogen bomb tests had the US and its allies worried. Japan and South Korea voiced their displeasure, while Trump threatened them with ‘fist and...
Will Trumps’ Pak threat work
By: Maj Gen Harsha Kakar | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 01 Sep , 2017
Trump lambasted Pakistan during the recent announcement of his Government’s South Asia policy. He openly blamed Pak for supporting and providing bases to terror groups operating in Afghanistan...
Doklam: Diplomacy wins over belligerence
By: Brig Anil Gupta | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 30 Aug , 2017
With both India and China confirming the decision of mutual disengagement from Doklam, the more than two-month old military stand-off between the two most powerful nuclear Asian neighbours has...
India-Pakistan dialogue on Kashmir
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 25 Aug , 2017
J&K Chief Minister repeats the tantrum of dialogue with Pakistan knowing well there are no takers in India and much less in Pakistan. Not only her late father but even father-son NC chief...
Making of National Flag
By: K B Jandial | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 01 Aug , 2017
On 22nd July in 1947, the national Constituent Assembly adopted the Tricolor as a Flag for independent India which was yet to born 24 days later. Every nation has its national flag which is a...
Kashmir’s real icons: Faisal, Athar, Bilal, Lt Ummer
By: K B Jandial | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 09 Jun , 2017
Kashmir witnessed some important developments recently that have confused the Kashmir watchers about the real aspirations of young educated youth claims and counter claims notwithstanding. The...
Ummer Fayaz’s killing, wither Kashmiriyat, Insaniyat!
By: K B Jandial | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 30 May , 2017
This is official. The situation in Kashmir is much better than what the media has been projecting. This is said by no one other than country’s Defence Minister Arun Jaitely at Srinagar on 19th...
Dealing with Rogue Pakistan
By: Rajan Gandhi | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 05 May , 2017
Pakistan has a history of using terrorism as a state policy. Nearly every major terrorist attack in the world can be traced back to the territory of Pakistan in one way or the other. Either the...
Valley necessitates a change in strategy
By: Maj Gen Harsha Kakar | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 18 Mar , 2017
Recent intelligence and media inputs are indicative of a changing trend in the Valley. Last year witnessed a quantitative increase in the number of locals picking up weapons against the state....
Surgical Strike and Pakistan’s Options
By: Maj Gen Harsha Kakar | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 07 Oct , 2016
Post the Uri attack, the nation was on the boil, seeking a military response from the government. It did put Kashmir on the backburner, enabling the state and the central governments to enhance...
Kashmir and Balochistan
By: Prof MK Bhat | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 17 Sep , 2016
Two areas that grabbed maximum headlines in the News papers/TV channels in the last month were Kashmir and Balochistan. Any problem in the former gets exaggerated sometimes more than the actual...
Pakistan’s Institutional Turf Wars
By: Lt Gen Bhopinder Singh (Retd) | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 24 Aug , 2016
The recent spiral of violence and bloodshed in the Kashmir valley has a dark dimension beyond the linear and hyphenated Indo-Pak rivalry, it is also symptomatic of the intra-Pakistani slugfest...
Not Many Understand ‘Jammu and Kashmir’
By: Ayushman Jamwal | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 01 Aug , 2016
The crisis continues in Kashmir and the narrative is no different. In the imagination of the mainstream, the region continues to be a distant, mystical land, a poetic setting of conflict and...
Pak Army Managed PoK Assembly Elections
By: Surinder Kumar Sharma | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 23 Jul , 2016
Even as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is locked in a one-upmanship race with the Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif on cornering India over violence in the Kashmir valley, Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK)...
Understanding Chinese New Silk Route
By: Col JP Singh, Retd | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 17 Jul , 2016
‘New silk route’ is a massive Chinese inter and intra continental strategic initiative which adds new roads and seaways to the historical silk route. It is a great initiative in its...
Pak Army’s Grand Deception on Terrorism
By: Farooq Ganderbali | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 12 Jul , 2016
The grand deception perpetrated by Pakistan Army on its people, and on the world, must be exposed. Pakistan Army chief, General Raheel Sharif, ever since he has taken over the reins of the army,...
Nuclear security and terrorism
By: Maj Gen Harsha Kakar | Issue: Courtesy: www.dailyexcelsior.com | Date: 29 Apr , 2016
Terrorists have always desired to obtain weapons of mass destruction or raw material enabling them to manufacture a dirty bomb, which though crude, would however cause high casualties....