Homeland Security

Yasin Malik: Kashmir’s Most ‘Artful Dodger’
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Aug , 2022
From an ordinary public event disruptor to waging Pakistan sponsored armed insurrection in J&K [in the course of which he was actively involved in killing security forces personnel and innocent...

Article 370 Abrogation: An Appraisal
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Aug , 2022
August 5 marks the third anniversary of the center’s decision to abrogate Articles 370 and 35[A] of the Indian Constitution, and though it’s still too early to comprehensively comment on the...

Kargil: Ours must live, enemy must die!
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol. 29.3 Jul-Sep 2014 | Date: 25 Jul , 2022
Even as the nation readies itself to pay homage to the extraordinary bravery displayed by the young officers and the men of the Indian Army during the Kargil conflict, the lessons thrown up raise...

Upgraded tactics of Pakistani terror in J&K
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Jul , 2022
In a press conference at Jammu, the Additional Director General of Police, J&K, disclosed some sensitive information about the drone deployment strategy of Pakistan's ISI in its Kashmir terror...

An Apprehension and Surrender in J&K
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jul , 2022
Coming on the heels of locals apprehending two armed Lashkar-e-Taiba [LeT] terrorists [including a self-styled commander’ responsible for many terror attacks and bomb blasts] in Tukson Dhok...

Anti-Nationals versus Agniveers
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jun , 2022
Fire has two manifestations: Godly that creates, nurtures and sustains; and savage, that destroys and rejoices over the destruction of creations, achievements and accomplishments. The later...

WTO Sealed a Package: India Emerged as Global Leader with Win-Win Outcome
By: Col (Dr) PK Vasudeva | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Jun , 2022
For the first time in a decade, the members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), a 164-nation body, have finalised a historic deal at the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12).The four-day MC12...

Countering Targeted Killings in Kashmir
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jun , 2022
By targeting defenceless men and women belonging to the indigenous minority Hindu community as well as non-locals working in Kashmir, Pakistan sponsored terrorists have succeeded in creating a...

Kashmir Killings: What is to be done now!
By: Col Anil Athale | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jun , 2022
The selective killings of Hindus and pro India Muslims in the valley are a reminder that war declared on us is not over yet. Right at the outset it must be clearly understood that what the...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...