Articles in Geopolitics
India- Pak dialogue, futile exercise
By: Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jan , 2013
The killing, and more importantly, savage mutilation of two soldiers of the Indian Army on the Line of Control ( LoC) has put a big question mark on the ‘ on- again/ off- again’ dialogue the two...
Shamelessly, business as usual with Pakistan
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jan , 2013
“PM gives ‘tough message’ to Pakistan” says the media. Did he by the meek remark of ‘business cannot be as usual’, delivered in characteristic apologetic body language? The fact this...
Pak savagery on the Line of Control in J&K
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Jan , 2013
Pakistani troops crossed the Line of control ( LoC ) in the Poonch Sector of J and K and killed two India soldiers. It is not so much the killing but the savage act and heinous crime of mutilating...
Should India Invade Pakistan?
By: Dr Amarjit Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Jan , 2013
The British were smart when they created Pakistan in 1947 with a distinct aim to keep India weak, while having a Pakistan they could control, as well as have access to the region for their...
Balochistan: Shia anger against Gen Kayani
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jan , 2013
The genocide of the Shias continues unabated in different parts of Pakistan— particularly in Balochistan, Gilgit, the Kurram Agency and Karachi. The security forces and the intelligence agencies...
Dealing with Pakistan
By: Lt Gen Raj Kadyan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jan , 2013
The long ceasefire line in J&K came into existence on cessation of hostilities when Pakistan had attacked Kashmir soon after Independence. They had almost reached Srinagar before being pushed...
Pakistan eyes Afghanistan once again
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 10 Jan , 2013
Pakistan and the Taliban have their eyes fixed on 2014 when the US packs its bags and leaves Afghanistan. The US now seems disillusioned with Hamid Karzai but have not yet found an obvious...
Afghanistan: The return of the warlords
By: Vikram Sood | Issue: Courtesy: MidDay Mumbai | Date: 07 Jan , 2013
So President Obama retains the White House and the power but the Party General Secretary Hu Jintao leaves his throne in March 2013. Nevertheless, the rest of the world is going to see continuity...
No change in Pakistan’s Military Doctrine!
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jan , 2013
Media reports emanating from Pakistan’s civilian Government as well as from the General Headquarters (GHQ) of the Army speak of an on-going review of Pakistan’s military doctrine in order...
Will Xi Junior have courage for return of Dalai Lama?
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 04 Jan , 2013
This is the stanza of a poem written by a 17-year-old Tibetan nun, Sangay Dolma before she took the fatal decision: Dolma set herself on fire in front of a Chinese government office at Tsekhog,...
Rising Powers, Rising Tensions: The Troubled China-India Relationship
By: admin | Date: 04 Jan , 2013
America and Al-Qaeda: Unleashing Frankenstein II
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jan , 2013
Is America inadvertently rearing another monster with its ‘covert’ support to al-Qaeda cadres in Syrian rebel ranks? During World War II, the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor...
India and the South Asian Neighbourhood
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Vol. 27.4 Oct-Dec 2012 | Date: 01 Jan , 2013
India’s relations with her neighbours need to be analysed frankly and unsentimentally, without recourse to the usual platitudes when pronouncing on the subject. It is fashionable to assume that...