Homeland Security
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...
Border Roads and Ladakh
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Dec , 2021
News reports of December 8, 2021, have stated that the Border Roads Organization (BRO) is to start collecting toll tax from civilians plying on four roads built by it in Ladakh. The report...
India faces a threat of destabilization
By: KN Pandita | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Dec , 2021
Stating the issue India faces the threat of destabilization by external aggression and internal subversion. External aggression can be from China and/or Pakistan, her two contiguous hostile...
Nagaland Killings Exposes Lack of Responsible Reporting
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Dec , 2021
Disclaimer: This piece is neither meant to justify the recent killing of civilians by security forces in Nagaland, nor find fault in a particular news portal. Au contraire, the sole objective is...
Manipur Ambush: Madness or a Method?
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Nov , 2021
Incidents of terrorists ambushing security forces in India’s North East aren’t uncommon and nor does their barbaric practice of murdering security force personnel incapacitated in such...
Sarp Vinash 2.0
By: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Oct , 2021
Counter-terrorist operations launched by the Army in the area of Nar Khas Forest in J&K’s Poonch region on the evening of October 14 after five Army personnel were killed during an encounter...
Who’s to Blame for Restrictions in Kashmir?
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Oct , 2021
Now that check posts have sprung up all over Kashmir Valley, voices which have all along been criticising routine checks have become more vocal once again. Certain so-called champions of human...
Targeted Killings in Kashmir: Inexplicable Silence of Hurriyat and Civil...
By: Nilesh Kunwar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Oct , 2021
The continuing killing of minority community members and non-locals in Kashmir Valley has made it abundantly clear that this barbaric trend has approval of those from across the Line of Control...
BSF gets extended powers to search in borderStates. Why the fuss?
By: Rakesh Kr Sinha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Oct , 2021
The Govt of India, in the exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 129 of the Border Security Force Act, 1948 (47 of 1968)", has extended BSF’s jurisdiction to 50 km in...
Unstable Pakistan is attempting to increase Terrorist activity in Kashmir
By: Col Jaibans Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Oct , 2021
As General Qamar Bajwa, the all powerful chief of the Pakistan Army, prepares to drift into retirement and ignominy, he would be ruing the day he decided to place all his political eggs in the...
India’s National Security Options in a Penta-Polar World – Scenario 2030
By: Navneet Bhushan | Issue: Vol. 36.3, Jul-Sep 2021 | Date: 12 Oct , 2021
We claim that a penta-polar world is emerging. We also claim that, “To be there in 2030-2035, India needs to play out the penta-polar world dynamics through a multi-alignment strategy backed up...