Prabhakar G Amidst reports of worsening of relations between the traditional foes, India and Pakistan, post the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, there was one refreshing aspect, the formal established channel of contact between the two armies - the hotline between the Director Generals of Military Operations, which was activated after the Batalik incident of 1999, continued, and was, in … [Read more...] about Should military contacts between India and Pakistan be revived?
One border, one force – A concept whose time has arrived
Jasbir Sarai Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) was raised on October 24, 1962, under the CRPF Act. It was about thirty years later, in 1992, that the ITBF Act was enacted by the Indian Parliament; the rules were framed two years later in 1994. Thereafter, ITBP acquired an independent status as a Para-military Force under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The force was raised with … [Read more...] about One border, one force – A concept whose time has arrived
Directly, indirectly or unintentionally; Pakistan is involved in 13/7
S Ranjan India’s soft underbelly – Mumbai, has once more been targeted by terrorism, many innocents have died and a siege mentality is once again overpowering the collective Indian psyche. There is a sense of rage against an unseen enemy, aspersion are being cast upon the government for its inability to get on top of the situation as has been done by the US post 9/11. This … [Read more...] about Directly, indirectly or unintentionally; Pakistan is involved in 13/7
Pakistan’s financial crisis : The reasons and the remedy
Jasbir Sarai Pakistan is once again in the throes of a financial crisis. Such crisis in Pakistan is never the result of conventional economic activities of recession and boom as in the case of the rest of the world. It is invariably the result of reduction in aid from various donor countries. The present crisis has been triggered by the decision of the US to hold off a third … [Read more...] about Pakistan’s financial crisis : The reasons and the remedy
India must engage China head-on!!
Prabhakar Gupta India’s preoccupation with Pakistan has, very often, been at the cost of engaging China effectively. As it is, China is virtually a closed country with a media and polity held captive by an authoritarian regime, a lack of interest in its affairs by the Indian government, Indian media and the Indian people gives it all the more leverage to go about fructifying … [Read more...] about India must engage China head-on!!