Engaging the Generals
Resumption of diplomatic engagements between India and Pakistan may not be helpful unless, experts say, India talks directly to the Pakistan military. Iftikhar Gilani reports.
Taliban and Kashmir
Will mid-nineties replicate in Kashmir if Taliban again rule Afghanistan, asks Riyaz Wani after going through what the leading strategic experts in India believe
What...
Barter Bottlenecks
Amid reports that NIA wants barter trade at the LoC to close down, a huge cache of contraband was recovered from a PaK truck...
War Woes
TV suggests that India and Pakistan stand on brink of another war. Even Kashmir is thick with battle talk. War means disaster. Bilal Handoo...
Siachen: Can This Ice Melt?
After Siachen Glacier devoured more than 130 men in a single avalanche early this month, Islamabad is again seeking a way out of the...
Daring Diplomacy?
Two non-descript NGOs run by shady managers flew 27 far-right European MPs to Delhi for what experts say, “controlling to conversation”. After meeting the...
Core issue not core of talks
Three wars and 60 years gone by but Indian and Pakistan have focused attention on solving Kashmir only twice despite a long history of...
Compulsive disengagement
With domestic political compulsions leaving India and Pakistan unable to come to any agreement on less contentious issues like Sir Creek and Siachen, there...
Talk Is Not Walking
There hasn’t been any statement from Delhi and Islamabad in the recent past that indicates some form of an engagement is ongoing between the...
Distortion of History
Archival evidence suggests that Indo-China border dispute have no roots in history and old maps were burnt in the Ministry of External Affairs to...
Fingers Crossed
Almost everybody in academia and politics that Khalid Bashir Gura spoke to, the response over Kabul happens was simple – wait and watch
What would...
That Televised War
It has been 17 years since India and Pakistan fought a ‘localized’ war over the hills between Zoji La and Siachen glacier. Following Vajpayee’s...
Exploring deadlock
The India Pakistan dialogue seems to have broken before it was restarted, but Indian side suggests its agenda was exploratory and the results were...
Three Kashmiris in White House
A Kashmir born woman become third Kashmiri origin person to join team Obama. Farah Pandit will take care of the Washington’s outreach efforts in...
Kashmir’s UN Crisis
In autumn when the diplomats and top politicians from India and Pakistan go to the United Nations for long speeches blaming each other for...
