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As US goes Retrograde in Afghanistan Pakistan gets an Upgrade
Monish Gulati

Introduction Kicking-off the first phase of the US pull-out from Afghanistan, two convoys of 25 containers each crossed the Torkham and Chaman border check-posts in Pakistan on 10 Feb 2013. The containers, “part of the US redeployment of ....

February 20, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , US , Afghanistan , Pakistan
Dealing with the Neighbour from Hell – Slandering the Indian Army
Amb Prabhat P Shukla

Since the recent episodes on our side of the Line of Control in January 2013, there has been a spate of articles seeking to justify and somehow explain the Pakistani actions, even if many are prefaced with the pro-forma demurral that the beheadings �....

February 05, 2013 National Security and Strategic Studies , Neighbourhood Studies , Defence , Pakistan
Pakistan Looks to Increase its Defence Footprint in Afghanistan
Monish Gulati

Introduction Afghan Defence Minister Bismillah Mohammadi, on 27 January 2013, led a six-member delegation for a five-day official tour to Pakistan for talks on defence cooperation and border coordination. Pakistani Chief of Army Staff, Gene....

February 05, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Pakistan
Stop Appeasing Pakistan
Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

The anger in India at the recent mutilation of its soldiers by Pakistani forces in J&K is natural and understandable. Quite unwarranted, however, are the calls for revenge and of internationalisation of the issue as also our feelings of surprise. The....

February 04, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
Nettlesome Neighbour
Amb Kanwal Sibal

We need to take proper stock of our policy towards Pakistan after the recent incidents on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir and the manner in which the government of Pakistan has reacted to them. A re-examination of some of the assump....

January 26, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
Be to Pakistan as its Posture Warrants
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Our international relations experts are divided on how to deal with Pakistan, with a section always advocating moderation in reaction to Pakistani provocations and others favouring more robust responses to Pakistani belligerence. This lack of cons....

January 23, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
India’s Pendulum Policy on Pakistan
Sushant Sareen

More than anything else, experience should inform Indian policy-makers and the legion of analysts and commentators on Indo-Pak relations about the peril of using words like ‘irreversible’ and ‘uninterruptible’ to describe the extremely accide....

January 21, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
Dealing with the Neighbour from Hell - Dangerously Naïve, Naively Dangerous
Amb Prabhat P Shukla

There has been a veritable barrage of opinion, hectoring and outright abuse from the pro-Pakistan segments of our media activists in the print media over the recent flare-up along parts of the LOC. This requires a substantive and fact-based debate, a....

January 18, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
Time to end Unilateral Concessions
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh’s remark that there can be no business as usual with Pakistan after its troops mutilated the bodies of two Indian soldiers they killed, and that those responsible for this crime will have to be brought to book, is....

January 17, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
LoC Ceasefire Violation: Talking Peace only to Undercut The Dialogue by Other Means
Sushant Sareen

The flag meeting between the local Indian commander and his Pakistani counterpart has concluded in an utterly predictable fashion: India has protested the repeated violation of the LoC ceasefire by Pakistani troops and strongly took up the issue of ....

January 16, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
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