NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Dr C. Christine Fair, Professor at the Security Studies Programme, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University and Author of several books including, ‘In Their Own Words: Understanding the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba’ and ‘Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War’ in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Making a new political beginning at 70 isn’t always easy but experience can come in handy. And Shehbaz Sharif has plenty of that. The younger brother of three-time Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif has been chief minister of Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous and wealthiest province, thrice. Born to an industrialist family in Lahore, dealing […]Read More

NEW DELHI: “Imran Khan is a crafty politician who understands the value of publicity, the more the better,” says TCA Raghavan, former high commissioner to Pakistan during a chat on StratNewsGlobal. With the numbers in the national assembly stacked against him, Khan seems to be wanting to drag things out, and has even filed a […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ruled that the Deputy Speaker’s decision to dismiss the no-trust resolution against Prime Minister Imran Khan in the National Assembly last week was unconstitutional. A 5-judge bench unanimously set aside the dissolution, restored the assembly (and Imran Khan’s government) while setting Saturday as the date for the vote on […]Read More

NEW DELHI: The ceasefire along the LoC notwithstanding, there has been no let-up in infiltration of terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir. And seizures made by Indian security forces in counter-terror operations along the LoC and in the hinterland bear enough evidence about Pakistani complicity. The weapons and radio sets used by terrorists, the kind of […]Read More

NEW DELHI: On ‘The Gist‘, Sushant Sareen, Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. Mr Sareen analyses the political crisis in Pakistan, where the supreme court has yet to rule on the legality of Ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan blocking a no-confidence motion with the numbers […]Read More

NEW DELHI: Derided, disparaged as “Im the Dim”, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has proved, at least for now, he’s not so dim after all. In an operation that may have been known only to a close circle of confidants, he had the rug pulled from under the opposition move for a no-confidence motion in […]Read More

NEW DELHI: In a country where cricket is much more than just a sport, a national unifier rather, Imran Khan gained iconic status when as captain of the Pakistani cricket team he lifted the world cup in 1992. That was down under and the team was down in the dumps, having won just one of […]Read More

NEW DELHI: The unabashed state-sponsored terror machinery operating from Pakistani soil remains rooted to a familiar modus operandi. Identify gullible or helpless youth in desperate need of money, indoctrinate them, drum radical and spiteful ideas into their impressionable minds and make them fight the so-called battle of jihad. If the catchment area extends to Kashmir, […]Read More

Pulwama, 2019: 40 CRPF personnel martyred Uri, 2016: 17 Army jawans martyred Mumbai, 2008: Over 160 people killed Mumbai train bombings, 2006: Over 200 killed Bombay serial blasts, 1993: Over 250 killed NEW DELHI: The list is painfully endless, yet Pakistan’s use of terrorism as a failed instrument of state policy lingers on. Despite global […]Read More
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