Editor’s Note Both India and Pakistan suffer from the scourge of terrorism, however, their approaches to combating the evil are diabolically different. While the Indian side uses the minimum... Read more
खत्म नहीं होने वाला (नॉन-लैप्सेबल) रक्षा आधुनिकीकरण कोष बनाने के मसले पर हमारे संदर्भ में कई वर्षों से चर्चा होती आई है। किंतु इस प्रस्ताव में कई खामियां हैं। जो कोष तैयार करने के लिए पहले ह... Read more
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is turning 50 this year, but the 10-member group is still taking baby steps toward integration. As usual, unity will be a rhetorical theme... Read more
First the good news: the Indian Navy may soon tap the government for funds to build a second aircraft carrier. This would either be a 65,000-tonne nuclear-powered flattop or a 100,000-tonne... Read more
ARE WE READY ACROSS THE HIMALAYAS? In Sep 2015, China held a massive military parade in the Tiananmen Square to showcase its growing military might. Since then its actions in the South China... Read more
China is about to launch its first homebuilt aircraft carrier, once the tidal conditions are right at the dock where the vessel has been under construction in Dalian. Weighing 70,000 tonnes... Read more
EDITOR’S NOTE The China Pakistan Economic Corridor is essentially a by-product of the Belt and Road Initiative of the Chinese. The Indians have serious objections since the road would... Read more
The Kashmir Valley has become a warzone today because of radical Islam. This is the exact same genre of Islam that caused the terrorist attack in Paris last week. And the exact same genre th... Read more
A Pakistani committee has recommended to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that Gilgit-Baltistan should be declared the country’s fifth province. For 70 years Pakistan has avoided integrating its... Read more
Editor’s Note The issue of creation of a non-lapsable defence modernisation fund has been debated for long years in our context. However, the proposal has its own share of pitfalls. Th... Read more