Pakistan

AFGHANISTAN: Through the Fog of Instability

Lt General R K Sawhney, PVSM, AVSM, Centre Head & Senior Fellow, National Security and Strategic Studies & Internal Security Studies, VIF

Afghanistan is a country that has seen more devastation than prosperity, especially in the last 20 years. The resurgence of the Taliban and its cat-and-mouse game with the West has brought the once lively nation on the brink of starvation and...

February 7, 2023

Keywords : Afghan wars, Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Durand Line, India, Pakistan, Taliban, US, Neighbourhood Studies

India-Bangladesh Bonhomie at 50: 1971 and the Present

Dr Sreeradha Datta

For Bangladesh and India, the past year has been about celebrating 50 years of Bangladesh and commemorating the iconic event, the Liberation War of Bangladesh, one that irreversibly changed the political landscape of South Asia.

March 25, 2022 Download

Keywords : 1971 Liberation War, 1971 war, India, Liberation War, Muslim League, Pakistan, Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh, Neighbourhood Studies

Jammu and Kashmir: A Compendium

Aarushi Suri

Jyoti Kumar

Over the last seventy years, Jammu & Kashmir has seen political machinations, violence, cross-border terrorism, instability and economic stagnation. On August 5, 2019, the Indian Government decided to amend Article 370 of the Indian...

October 22, 2020

Keywords : National Security and Strategic Studies, Article 370, Indian Constitution, Pakistan, radicalization, Terrorism, Jammu & Kashmir

Radicalization in India: An Exploration

Abhinav Pandya

Kashmir has been in turmoil since the past three decades or so. The state of dissatisfaction in that part of a free, democratic, secular Indian nation is a rather perplexing development, the question being that how can any well groomed group of...

August 27, 2019

Keywords : Kashmir, Kashmiri people, Pakistan, Radicalization in India, Governance and Political Studies