Pakistan’s resurgent hardline narrative
India needs options to counter looming threats beyond current LoC skirmishes. On January 8, Pakistani soldiers affiliated with 29 Baloch regiment infiltrated across the Line of Control (LoC) at Mendhar...
View ArticleUrdunama: Tehrik-e-Kashmir
Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust’s annual Kashmir Solidarity Day conference was held in Lahore yesterday. Speakers included the always-delightful Majid Nizami, chairman of the Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust and...
View ArticleA system of neglect
India doesn’t need more ideas in tackling its internal security challenges; it needs action. Another terrorist attack in a major Indian city this week left 16 dead and over 50 injured. Yet, within...
View ArticleDamned lies and statistics
On Aakar Patel’s attempts to convince us that terror has decreased under the UPA. When I read Aakar Patel’s op-ed in Pakistan’s Express Tribune on the “successes” of the Manmohan Singh government in...
View ArticleU.S. hearings on the Lashkar-e-Taiba
Convergence of perceptions augurs well for Indo-US counter-terrorism cooperation. The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Homeland Security held a hearing on June 12 on “Protecting the Homeland...
View ArticleNo withdrawal syndrome
India still has the ability to ensure that its interests in Afghanistan are protected after 2014. The U.S., with eyes set on a 2014 withdrawal from Afghanistan, is attempting to engage the Taliban in...
View ArticleThe field narrows, the noose tightens
Recent arrests point to welcome progress in the evolution of India’s counter-terror capabilities. The capture of Yasin Bhatkal by Indian intelligence officials on Wednesday represents an important...
View ArticleUrdunama: Jaish-e-Mohammed
Pakistan’s Dawn reported on January 27 that Maulana Masood Azhar, founder of the terrorist group, Jaish-e-Mohammed, held a rally in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, where he criticized India of “killing...
View ArticleA Statement of Intent
Reviewing Mr. Modi’s visit to the U.S. and U.S.-India security cooperation. To say that Mr. Modi’s first visit to the U.S. as prime minister attracted considerable attention from India’s media would be...
View ArticlePakistan’s sophistry on Jamaat ud-Dawah
Nawaz Sharif’s claims of zero tolerance on terrorism have zero credibility. India’s civil society and its political leaders across all hues shared the grief of ordinary Pakistanis after the barbaric...
View ArticleA chip in every militant
Pakistan’s novel idea for dealing with terrorism. In an interview with BBC Urdu, the Interior Minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province Col (r) Shuja Khanzada offered the following when questioned on what...
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