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India's Pakistan and China Policies must be Based on Realism not Hope

India's relations with Pakistan and China have been deeply troubled for several decades. With Pakistan, this has been the case since its inception, and with China since the 1960's. We have disputed borders with both countries and have been engaged in....

January 14, 2018 Neighbourhood Studies , India , Pakistan , China Policies , Pakistan and China relations , India’s hostile neighbours

कश्मीर – सामने आया नया मौका

C D Sahay

केंद्रीय गृह मंत्री राजनाथ सिंह ने एक बड़ा कदम उठाते हुए 23 अक्टूबर, 2017 को ऐलान किया कि भारत सरकार न�....

December 05, 2017 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , India , Pakistan , Kashmir , कश्मीर राजनीतिक प्रक्रिया , केंद्र सरकार प्रतिनिधि , POK

Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory, Aanchal Malhotra, Harper Collins Publishers, India, Pages 400, Price Rs 799/-.

Rajesh Singh

It was Elie Wiesel who had said, “Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilisation, no society, no future.” The Holocaust survivor would know, as would those in India and Pakistan who went through the trauma of ....

November 13, 2017 Governance and Political Studies , India , Pakistan , Book Reviews , Mahatma Gandhi , 1947 , Islamic nation

Key to Conflict Management in Kashmir is People, Politics and Perception

Brig Narender Kumar, SM, VSM (retd.)

Violence is a type of backwardness and it is enormously powerful tool to coerce the communally fractured population to revolt against the state. But sustaining the uprising would need psychological mentoring and shaping of the perception of the peopl....

November 06, 2017 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , India , Pakistan , Kashmir , Jammu , Pakistan strategies , hybrid war , Kashmiri culture , 360

Afghanistan- Pakistan Transit Trade

Shoiab A. Rahim

Abstract The transit trade problems of Afghanistan are typical to any other landlocked country. As a landlocked country, Afghanistan has relied on Pakistan for its international trade. However, the transit trade of Afghanistan has....

October 26, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Pakistan , Afghanistan’s Trade , Transit Overview , Land- locked States , ATTA , Trade Barriers

H.E. Mohammad Ashraf Ghani’s speech at Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), New Delhi, 24 October 2017

Highlights President Ghani dwelled on the causes of global uncertainty, the regional security context and the New US Strategy in South Asia. Drivers of Global Uncertainty • President Ghani identified

October 25, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Interaction , Pakistan , QUAD , CPEC , Ashraf Ghani , Afghanistan Foreign Policy , ANSF , Indo–Afghan Relations

आतंकवाद पर पाकिस्तान की बकवास की पड़ताल

Sushant Sareen

पाकिस्तान में केवल भोले-भाले आम आदमी ही नहीं बल्कि तथाकथित ‘बुद्धिजीवियों’ (ज्यादातर पाकिस्त�....

October 17, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Pakistan , आतंकवाद , पाकिस्तान , झूठा प्रचार , Terrorism

Nuclear Sabre-rattling: Pakistan must Discard its Tactical Nuclear Weapons

Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

“Any nuclear weapon, of any quality, mode of delivery or yield, used against any type of target, will result in a strategic impact to which the logical response would be the use of nuclear weapons, more often than not, on an overwhelming....

October 10, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Nuclear and Disarmament , Pakistan , South Korea , Tactical Nuclear Weapons , Nuclear War , Air Force , Foreign Minister , TNWs , weapons , Sabre-rattling , Nuclear Weapons