Articles in Homeland Security
Religious Radicalisation in Kashmir: ‘Death’ of a Society
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Jun , 2022
On broaching the issue of religious radicalisation in Kashmir, the stock reply is that this is sheer propaganda as there’s no such thing here. This reply is invariably followed by a lengthy...
Decoding Targeted Killings in Kashmir
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 May , 2022
Tuesday, May 24, turned out to be yet another bloody day in Kashmir. While a targeted attack in the Soura area of Srinagar left a policeman dead and his seven-year-old daughter injured, three...
Is Pakistan Reinventing its Kashmir Strategy?
By: Dr V Balasubramaniyan | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 26 Apr , 2022
Pakistan appears to have been trying to reinvent its efforts to politicize and internationalize Jammu & Kashmir issue. The present Pakistani strategy appears to have adopted a more global...
On ‘Targeted’ Killings and Violence in Kashmir
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Apr , 2022
The cold-blooded murder of Manzoor Ahmad Bangroo in Pattan area of South Kashmir on Friday is the latest incident of ongoing targeted killings by terrorists in Kashmir. The deceased was a...
Capacity, Autonomy and Venality: The Larger Challenges of Governance
By: Prof (Dr) SN Misra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Apr , 2022
Mr. Suba Rao, previously RBI Governor, has stirred a hornet’s nest by calling the IAS’ elitist, self-serving, perpetuating a set of bureaucrats who are out of touch with reality and wallow in...
What Pakistan and Separatists Don’t Tell Kashmiris!
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Mar , 2022
Though Pakistan puts up a very brave face when the international community refuses to ‘buy’ its skewed Kashmir narrative and glibly ascribes its rejection to a host of unconvincing reasons,...
Human trafficking and exploitation is posing an existential crisis in Pakistan
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Mar , 2022
Prime Minister Imran Khan is under fire for multiple reasons; politically, with the build up to the vote of no-confidence gaining momentum, he is staring at an ignominious removal . Khan and his...
Kashmiri Pandits: The Longest Night
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Book Excerpt: Kashmir: Its Aborigines and their Exodus | Date: 14 Mar , 2022
Here is an eye witness account of that night by Capt S.K. Tikoo (Retd), who along with his family experienced the orchestrated happenings, first hand.1 The Longest Night “January 19, 1990....
Kashmiri Pandits offered three choices by Radical Islamists
By: Col (Dr) Tej Kumar Tikoo (Retd.) | Issue: Book Excerpt: Kashmir: Its Aborigines and their Exodus | Date: 13 Mar , 2022
On Jan, 04, 1990, a local Urdu newspaper, Aftab, published a press release issued by Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, asking all Pandits to leave the Valley immediately. Al Safa, another local daily repeated...
Pulwama attack: India avenged the dastardly act, but the threat persists
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Feb , 2022
Valentine Day is India comes with a note of sobriety since 2019 as it also marks a dastardly VBIED (Vehicle Based Improvised Explosive Device) attack by enemies of the nation on a CRPF convoy at...
Kashmir Media at Crossroads
By: Farooq Wani | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Jan , 2022
One thing which stands out about media in Kashmir is that journalism here isn’t predominantly a family business. Instead, young boys and girls are drawn towards journalism as it’s a...
Opening up Jammu and Kashmir
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jan , 2022
When Pakistan closed its airspace for Indian flights after the 2019 Balakot airstrike, it was largely seen as defensive measure against any similar punitive action and also a political maneuver to...
India needs to Forcefully respond to Chinese Psychological Operations
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jan , 2022
Winters used to be looked upon as a lie-low time along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China. In present times, the extreme cold conditions are utilised by China for launching sophisticated...
Indian Navy: The Guardians of the Indian Ocean
By: Maj Gen CP Singh (Retd.) | Issue: Courtesy: www.defenceinfo.com | Date: 06 Jan , 2022
Introduction History is testimony to the fact that any ruler who went on to become an emperor always had a strong Navy. The one, who conquered the blue waters, conquered the world. India was a...
Indo–Pacific Oceans Initiative
By: Vice Admiral MP Muralidharan | Issue: Vol. 36.4, Oct-Dec 2021 | Date: 06 Jan , 2022
Concept of Indo-Pacific Eminent historian and scholar Radhakumud Mookerjee in his seminal work on Indian Shipping, while tracing the history of maritime activities of Indians from historic times,...
Pakistan: Ceasefire with TPP will have Precarious Repercussions
By: Dr Simrit Kahlon | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Jan , 2022
What goes around; comes around!! This proverb describes, most aptly, the fragile situation presently prevalent in Pakistan. Having given wind to the cult of terrorism, the nation is now paying a...
AFSPA in the N-E: Is status quo the answer?
By: Brig Deepak Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jan , 2022
Much has already been written on the tragic incident that occurred recently in the Tiru-Oting area of Mon district, Nagaland. In a case of mistaken identity, six coal miners were killed by a...
Nagaland: The Night of the Guerrillas
By: BK Narayan | Issue: Book Excerpt: Nagaland: The Night of the Guerrillas | Date: 29 Dec , 2021
The problem of Naga insurgency has confronted the Indian Government more or less since the dawn of Indian independence. The bloody course of events resulting in many encounters, deaths and...
The Hunter becomes the Hunted: National Interest Quo Vadis?
By: Brig Pradeep Sharma | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Dec , 2021
Introduction Nagaland has been a puzzle unsolved since the days of the British Raj, it continues to be so even today. Many governments have come and gone, the talk of settlements and accords being...