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South Asia: Pakistan holds the key
India and Pakistan are at the cusp of another opportunity for moving forward on in their relationship.…
Behind India’s Defense Budget
This week’s unveiling of the budget finds India hiking its defense budget by 19 per cent, with 40 per cent as capital outlay. …
India-Pakistan: Missing NCBMs
The two states are working overtime to ensure mutual deterrence. …
India: For an Introspective Turn
Favoring human security can help the government realize its constitutional obligations. Since India faces no existential threat, exaggerations such as the ‘two front’ threat notwithstanding, India can make this shift.…
India-Pakistan: Solving the ‘chicken or egg’ conundrum
The fortieth anniversary of a significant clash of arms in the subcontinent is an appropriate juncture for reflection on regional security. Four decades on, it is clear that the security…
Evaluating the China ‘Threat’ Thesis in India
Early this month, the Indian cabinet approved the army’s expansion by 86,000 soldiers, touted as the largest restructuring since the mechanization in the eighties. The additional capabilities are intended for…
Using Military Dangers Gainfully
The paradox is that the more dangers are injected into an interaction and projected as such, the more stability there is in the system. Additional deterrence stability is sought through…
India, China, and the US: The Debate in India
The latest spat in the South China Sea, in a first, involves China and India. An Indian naval ship, INS Airavat, transited through the sea claimed by China as its…
The Muslim Question: An understanding for difficult times
Attending summer school at the University of Oslo, I had the opportunity to witness Norway in its grief and resilience first hand over the last week. In solidarity, I joined…
South Asia: Of War Clouds and Silver Linings
Prospects are not bright for Dr. Manmohan Singh traveling to Islamabad on Mr. Gilani’s invitation extended at Mohali during the latest spot of ‘cricket diplomacy’. The foreign secretaries are to…
Saving Pakistan
That Pakistan is too important a state to be allowed to fail is long acknowledged. For the US, its strategic location and being the locus of ‘terror’ lend it significance.…
India-Pak: Justifiable Pessimism
Superficially, it would appear that Kashmir is at the ‘core’ of the problem between the two states, India and Pakistan. Other candidate areas of lesser significance figure in the basket…
India-Pakistan: Nothing in the offing
After the Thimpu talks between the two foreign secretaries, India and Pakistan stand at yet another beginning. As in the middle of last year, there is little indication that this…
Coping with Islamist Pakistan
The revolution in Tunisia, with ripple effects in Egypt, Yemen and Lebanon, has placed authoritarian regimes across the Muslim world on notice. On the face of it, Pakistan, having a…
AfPak: Talks as a way out
That Pakistan is ‘hedging’ is now official. It has been resisting both pressures and incentives to ‘do more’ in the war on terror. Observers with empathy realize it has little…
Towards The Endgame In Af-Pak
Talks need to be taken more seriously, with the US reaching out directly to the Taliban. …
The Coming Escalation in Obama’s War
While the military escalation is set to occur, pre-emption of the worst case possibility must be the focus. Keeping Pakistan on an even keel is a strategic necessity, since it…
Reconciling the Af-Pak Conundrum
The meeting in Washington DC on nuclear security indicates the concern with the fallout of Bush’s Global War on Terror. It can reasonably have been expected that such a threat…
Getting Pakistan on the Bandwagon
The current impasse in South Asia testifies that strategies as containment, coercion and deterrence have not worked as well as intended and have carried unrecognised dangers. A change of tack…
India-Pakistan Dialogue: The Way Forward
A terrorist bombing of a bakery in Pune resulting in 14 dead greeted the announcement that the foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan are to meet at New Delhi on…
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