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...
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...
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 remained unstable...
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 four drivers of global uncertainty: (1) Unclear...
पाकिस्तान में केवल भोले-भाले आम आदमी ही नहीं बल्कि तथाकथित ‘बुद्धिजीवियों’ (ज्यादातर पाकिस्तानी शिक्षाविदों, विश्लेषकों और पत्रकारों के लिए झूठा नाम) के भी विचारों पर ‘डीप स्टेट’ का इतना अधिक नियंत्रण है कि उनमें से अधिकतर को पता ही नहीं है कि अपने...
“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 scale.” –...
H.E. Salahuddin Rabbani, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, concluded his three-day visit to India with a talk on ‘India-Afghanistan Relations: Recent Developments and Implications’, delivered at the Vivekananda...
पिछले कुछ महीनों और वर्षों में जम्मू-कश्मीर में की कहानी कश्मीर घाटी में नियमित अशांति, सीमा पार से बार-बार आतंकी हमलों तथा भारतीय सुरक्षा बलों एवं आतंकियों के बीच मुठभेड़ के इर्दगिर्द ही घूमती रही है। इससे अलग एक टकराव भारतीय संविधान के अनुच्छेद 370...
India became the full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on 9th June in Astana. Along with India, Pakistan has also joined the forum. Inclusion of the new members has expanded organization’s geographical outreach, and has raised...
It has been a little under two and a half years since January 26, 2015 when Daesh announced in Afghanistan, the establishment of its South Asian affiliate known as Islamic State in Khorasan (ISK). The outfit’s now-deceased spokesperson Abu Muhammad...