Prabhakar Gupta Siachen is once again in the news, thanks to General Kayani’s peace overtures in the backdrop of the avalanche mishap at the Pakistani post, Gayari, on the glacier. This overture, supported by the lusterless meeting in New Delhi between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan, has impelled Pakistan to put the demilitarisation … [Read more...] about Chinese Occupied J&K is a strategic dimension in Siachen
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Indian Armed forces are being taken for granted
Jaibans Singh On 21 May 2009, the Government of India issued orders for non-functional financial upgradation for all Organised Group-A (OGA) civil services. With this, when one OGA officer gets empanelled at a particular post, all other officers of the same seniority shall also be moved up to the same pay level after a period of two years from the date of the first … [Read more...] about Indian Armed forces are being taken for granted
Demilitarisation of Siachen: Kayani’s personal crusade
Defenceinfo Bureau Report Pakistani Army Chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, seems to have made demilitarisation of the Siachen glacier by India and Pakistan a personal crusade. The elusive General who allows his government stooges, his Prime Minister and his President to do all the dirty talking has, recently, come out in the open with a demand for progress on … [Read more...] about Demilitarisation of Siachen: Kayani’s personal crusade
Dimilitarisation of Siachen: Let’s not get swayed by oratory
Jaibans Singh The Indo-Pakistan impasse on Siachen has been described by Dr Stephen Cohen, a Washington based South Asia analyst as “a fight between two bald men over a comb”. The problem with US thinkers and opinion makers is that they oversimplify important strategic issues as has been done by the good doctor with his bland comment. One would expect them to be gracious … [Read more...] about Dimilitarisation of Siachen: Let’s not get swayed by oratory
Wanted: A national crusade against naxalism
Jaibans Singh The counter naxal operations have recently received a severe setback due to a spate of high profile abductions. The saga of Jhina Hikaka, the Odisha MLA and the two Italian nationals Claudio Colangelo and Paolo Bosusco, captured by two different organisation of the maoists has just about finished and we have at hand the audacious kidnapping of Alex Paul Menon, … [Read more...] about Wanted: A national crusade against naxalism