NEW DELHI: It’s the largest province of Pakistan, making up 45 per cent of its geographic area, yet Balochistan remains the most neglected area there. The region is mineral-rich, known especially for its gas reserves and the government has mined it to the hilt. Pakistan has saved $3 bn a year for decades by exploiting […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan failed to drum up a consensus among SAARC foreign ministers for holding the 19th summit, which it would host. Most member nations said with the Covid19 pandemic raging, it wasn’t the right time. The only country to side with Pakistan was Nepal, which has been seeking revival of the Saarc process for […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s latest pronouncement on Gilgit-Baltistan (GB)–that it plans to give this disputed territory the status of a province–needs to be taken with a shaker of salt, officials in Delhi told StratNews Global. In doing so, Pakistan will surrender the very grounds on which it’s been claiming the whole of Kashmir–that it’s a disputed territory […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Continuing to be pushed by Sikhs operating in US, UK and Canada the Khalistani movement operates with the full knowledge and tacit support of Pakistan, claims a recently released report called Khalistan: A Project of Pakistan. Veteran investigative journalist Terry Milewski who provided research for the report and has been covering the Khalistani […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Results of five studies conducted by Wuhan Institute of Virology and Pakistani scientists in open source scientific papers show they have been researching experiments of dangerous pathogens on Pakistani soil for at least five years, says Anthony Klan, the author of two reports on the subject. In two articles in July and August, […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Six days after he disappeared, Sajid Gondal is back home in Islamabad with none the wiser as to how and why he vanished. The suspicion is he was abducted by the same shadowy official agencies that had kidnapped investigative Matiullah Jan last month. But why Gondal? The suspicion is that he leaked details […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan may be tempted to join good friend China in opening another front against India if the current military stalemate in Ladakh persists, feel former military officers Maj Gen BK Sharma (Retd), Director of USI and Lt Gen GS Katoch (Retd), member of India’s oldest military think tank in this episode of Strategic Insight […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The PLA Air Force is being modernised very rapidly and is being used for strategic coercion. It is inducting long range vectors, depending upon no-contact warfare strategy. India needs to be not only aware of these changes in the PLAAF but also take countermeasures although the Indian Air Force is still ahead in terms […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In April 2013, military aficionados gathered at London’s National Army Museum voted the twin battles of Kohima and Imphal between the British Indian Army and the Japanese Imperial Army during April-July 1944 as Great Britain’s ‘greatest battle’ ever fought, beating Waterloo and Normandy—two other decisive victories in war for Britain—to second and third […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There’s nothing like terrorism to get India moving, and at the 19th annual Darbari Seth Memorial Lecture, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar did not hold back. Not that Darbari Seth had anything to do with diplomacy or terrorism, he was an esteemed late director of the House of Tatas, but the annual lecture […]Read More
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