Boundary Disputes have a Diplomatic Message
India has supported a draft resolution to identify the ‘zoonotic source’ of the novel coronavirus, and Beijing is obviously unhappy. Hence, the Chinese muscle-flexing on
New FDI Norms for Defence Industry Could be a Game Changer
If the new initiative can attract foreign and Indian investors, this would lead to a long- overdue ‘corporatization’ of these DPSUs and not to their
A quagmire called Afghanistan
It is pertinent to ask what New Delhi hopes to achieve in Afghanistan. The latest US deal with the Taliban – that controls half of
A year later, looking back at Indian airstrikes on Pakistan and its impact
Since the Balakot strikes there have been no major Pakistan-led terror attacks. It seems that Pakistan is nervous that India’s actions this time aren’t going
The Trump visit to India and what could be the outcomes
This visit by US President Donald Trump could see announcements of Indo-US defence deals largely to strengthen India’s maritime capabilities. President Donald Trump would become
Weapon diplomacy, the spanner in India’s ambition to export arms
Global arms sales have risen again, since 2010, and currently, India is in the top few of the world, with imports at 13% of the
LAST WORD: by MAROOF RAZA LET US SHARE, OUR PAST, WITH PRIDE
One of the things that we lack as a people is a sense of history and more specifically of the campaigns that our armed forces
China, not Pakistan, is the elephant in the room
It is not what Pakistan is doing in Jammu and Kashmir but tackling the agenda set by China in the region that India needs to
Pakistan’s new civil-military equation
General Qamar Javed Bajwa, like so many other past Pakistani Army Chiefs, was carefully selected by Imran’s predecessor, Nawaz Sharif, for being an unlikely threat.
What should be the Role of the Chief of Defence Staff?
FEW PEOPLE, OUTSIDE those informed about India’s higher defence organisation, know that the defence of India—as per the Government of India (Transaction of Business )