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Nuclear Sabre-rattling: Pakistan must Discard its Tactical Nuclear Weapons
Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

“Any nuclear weapon, of any quality, mode of delivery or yield, used against any type of target, will result in a strategic impact to which the logical response would be the use of nuclear weapons, more often than not, on an overwhelming....

October 10, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Nuclear and Disarmament , Pakistan , South Korea , Tactical Nuclear Weapons , Nuclear War , Air Force , Foreign Minister , TNWs , weapons , Sabre-rattling , Nuclear Weapons
A Talk on ‘India-Afghanistan Relations: Recent Developments and Implications’, by H.E. Salahuddin Rabbani, Foreign Minister of Afghanistan

H.E. Salahuddin Rabbani, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, concluded his three-day visit to India with a talk on ‘India-Afghanistan Relations: Recent Developments and Implications’, delivered at the Vivekananda ....

September 18, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Interaction , Pakistan , US , India-Afghanistan relations , Salahuddin Rabbani
अनुच्छेद 35ए पर कड़वाहट भरी रस्साकशी
Rajesh Singh

पिछले कुछ महीनों और वर्षों में जम्मू-कश्मीर में की कहानी कश्मीर घाटी में नियमित अशांति, सीमा पा�....

September 15, 2017 Governance and Political Studies , India , Pakistan , Kashmir , Jammu , जम्मू-कश्मीर राज्य , संविधान अनुच्छेद 35ए , Article 35A , J&K
Shanghai Cooperation Organization: New Delhi’s March into Eurasia
Dr Rashmini Koparkar

India became the full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on 9th June in Astana. Along with India, Pakistan has also joined the forum. Inclusion of the new members has expanded organization’s geographical outreach, and has raised ....

June 23, 2017 International Relations and Diplomacy , Pakistan , Russia , SCO , Eurasia , Uzbekistan , Shanghai Cooperation Organization , global GDP , Soviet Union
Daesh in Afghanistan: It gets Weakened but Not yet Vanquished in Syria-Iraq
Dr Alvite Singh Ningthoujam

It has been a little under two and a half years since January 26, 2015 when Daesh announced in Afghanistan, the establishment of its South Asian affiliate known as Islamic State in Khorasan (ISK). The outfit’s now-deceased spokesperson Abu Muhammad....

June 12, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Pakistan , Iraq , Daesh , Khorasan , Af-Pak , Daesh in Afghanistan , Syria
चीन रूपी ईस्ट इंडिया कंपनी का पाकिस्तान में प्रवेश
कर्नल शिवदान सिंह

लम्बे समय से कूटनैतिक विचार विमर्श के बाद चीन और पाकिस्तान ने दोनों के बीच बनने वाले आर्थिक गलि�....

May 30, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Pakistan , China , पाक चीन गठजोड़ , पाकिस्तान सार्वभौमिकता , CPEC , Economic
क्या भारत को चाहिए पाकिस्तान के साथ युद्ध की नई नीति?
Abhinav Pandya

पिछले 70 वर्ष से पाकिस्तान भारत से सीधे या दूसरों को शह देकर छद्म युद्ध करता आ रहा है। सीधे युद्ध �....

May 12, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , India , Pakistan , War , पाकिस्तान , युद्ध , परमाणु , धार्मिक कट्टरपंथ
Does India Need a New War Doctrine with Pakistan?
Abhinav Pandya

For the last 70 years, Pakistan has been at war with India either directly or through its proxies. Our responses in the former cases have been widely acknowledged as professional and effective. In the latter case of proxy war in Kashmir and elsewhere....

April 17, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , Pakistan , Hybrid Warfare , Proxy War
‘Beati Sunt Possidentes’ (Blessed are Those in Possession): A Leitmotif for Chinese (& Pakistani) Statecraft
Rear Admiral Sudarshan Y Shrikhande, AVSM, IN, (Retd)

Tucked away in Chapter 1 of Book 6, boringly titled ‘Defense’ in Clausewitz’s ‘On War’, is yet another nugget of his strategic wisdom: ‘In daily life, and especially in litigation (which so closely resembles war) it is summed....

April 10, 2017 National Security and Strategic Studies , India , Pakistan , China , South China Sea , China’s expansionism , territorial possession , Beati Sunt Possidentes , Leitmotif for Chinese , Statecraft
Pakistan: Evolving Dynamics
Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Notion of Pakistan Faiz Ahmad Faiz, expressed his disillusionment with the partition in his famous verse:

Ye daghdaghujala, ye shab-gazidasahar Vointizarthajis-ka, ye vosahar to nahin, Ye vosahar to nahinjiskiarzulekar Cha....

March 11, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Pakistan , Terrorism , Development , Balochistan , Mohajir
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