India changing Chinese goalposts
Harsha Kakar The nineteenth round of Indo-China talks at the military level held last week at the Moldo-Chushul border outpost was a rare two-day event. Much was expected as these were held just days before…
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The arrest of Imran Khan
Harsha Kakar The Pak army never disappoints. No PM in Pak has completed his full tenure and almost all have ended up behind bars. Imran was no exception. His arrest was expected after his ouster,…
Cluster bombs for Ukraine
Harsha Kakar A recent announcement from the White House mentioned that the US is despatching cluster bombs to Ukraine. In an interview to CNN television, President Biden stated that it had taken him ‘a while…
Mystery shrouds J&K assembly polls
Anil Anand There is a mystery shrouding the holding of maiden assembly election to the newly carved out Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir. For the last over four years, after the August 5,…
UK ready to help Pakistan
K N Pandita What isolated Pakistan from a larger political engagement in South Asian region was the anger of the US that it had helped Taliban to extirpate the elected government of Ashraf Ghani in…
Converting cantonments to military stations
Harsha Kakar A Government notification of 27th April stated that Yol, a cantonment in Himachal Pradesh, will be the first to be converted into a military station and civilian areas, thus far a part of…
Defence budgets and capability development
Harsha Kakar The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in its latest report listed India as the fourth largest military spender in the world, the leaders being the US, China and Russia, who account for…
General Zorawar Singh —Is it a case of historical negationism?
Col Satish Singh ”He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past-George Orwell’ The professionalization of history from the 18/`19th and 20th century was so closely related to…
Why no Bharat Ratna for K L Saigal ?
Squadron Leader Anil Sehgal On 11 April 2023, theatre director Deepak Kumar rang me up to check if I was in Jammu. He desired to invite me to an impromptu gathering of artists to mark…
Parliament: A Temple of Democracy or Akhara for Dangal?
K B Jandial Parliament’s yet another session was washed as a result of continuous ruckus, frequent adjournments and finally adjourned sine die with almost any work. This is the new normal of the ‘highest temple…