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
NEW DELHI: The timing of Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s Strategic Dialogue with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi is “very significant” coming on the “heels of the very consequential spat between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia,” says Michael Kugelman, Deputy Director, Asia Programme at The Wilson Centre in Washington, D.C. Speaking to StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh […]Read More
NEW DELHI: With an elbow bump and broad smiles, ‘iron brothers’ China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi, reaffirmed their close ties on Friday. Adding to their celebration was President Xi Jinping lauding the CPEC (China Pak Economic Corridor) as the key to closer ties, and describing the two countries […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s outburst against Saudi Arabia is part domestic compulsion, part unwillingness to recognise global realities, Aparna Pande says on ‘Talking Point’, while Shuja Nawaz warns “Pakistan will lose if it swings like a pendulum between Saudi Arabia and China.” Pakistan’s Army Chief and ISI DG returned from Saudi Arabia this week without meeting […]Read More
NEW DELHI: In a week that saw the fluttering to life of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), a political party that had been all but written off because of the indifferent health of its founder Nawaz Sharif, a rift out in the open between Pakistan and its long-time mentor Saudi Arabia could presage the end of […]Read More
NEW DELHI: ‘A storm in a teacup’ or just a hiccup. Either way (or worse), Pakistan’s long-standing ties with Saudi Arabia—a relationship leavened by Islam, oil and periodic infusions of cash—are under intense scrutiny ever since Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi warned in a TV chat show in Islamabad on Wednesday that if the Saudis […]Read More
NEW DELHI: An exercise in political absurdity. That’s how India snubbed the new political map released by Pakistan a day before the first anniversary of India scrapping Article 370 that gave special status to J&K. Ever since India split J&K into two union territories on August 5 last year, Pakistan has cried hoarse and tried […]Read More
NEW DELHI: They are ‘Iron Brothers’, but it is on twitter that the Pakistan-China bond appears strongest. Using fake Chinese names and pictures, an army of Pakistani troll warriors have unleashed a massive disinformation campaign against India post-Galwan. The idea is two-fold – to make Indian twitterati and India think China is attacking them, and […]Read More
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