A NUCLEAR COLLISION COURSE IN SOUTH ASIA
ahmed sabirTHE BUDDING ARMS RACE AMONG CHINA, INDIA AND PAKISTAN ANDREW F. KREPINEVICH, JR. In the summer of 2021, the world learned that China was dramatically expanding its nuclear arsenal. Satellite…
FOUAD HAFEEZ, HINDUTVA THE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICH, (VANGUARD BOOKS; LAHORE: 2022)
SAFIA MALIK, RESEARCH OFFICER IN CISSS Hindutva is extremist ideology of radical Hindu nationalists in India. The impact of Hindutva was never so pronounced and offensive for minorities as has…
‘BJP WILL NEVER CONQUER KERALA’
'Secularism is the life of Kerala, and the BJP is trying to poison this atmosphere’ SHOBHA WARRIER In 2022 M V Govindan popularly known as Govindan Master took over as…
Ghost experts, non-existent think tanks fuel India’s disinformation drive
ZAKI ABBAS In spite of two major exposes against the wire service in 2019 and 2020, Asian News International a major Indian 'news' agency continues to peddle disinformation using “non-existent”…
Invest in defence modernisation
ASHOK K MEHTA The only surprise in the defence budget was no surprise: static, in real terms, a negative budget for modernization- the litmus test of capability enhancement for maintaining…
India’s got the BRICS blues
India's got the BRICS blues The Brazilian news agency reported that Lula da Silva's inauguration as the new president on January 1 for a historic third term amidst a carnival-like…
Causal sequence of India’s drive to resume Nuclear Testing
India's economic potential and the presence of large numbers of Indian Americans in American think tanks and in the current administration have created a conducive environment for tolerance of any…
Turkey’s paramilitary SADAT meeting discussed deploying foreign fighters to Kashmir, Palestine
By Abdullah Bozkurt The idea of sending foreign fighters to Kashmir and Palestine against the backdrop of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict was raised during a meeting in Turkey that was organized…
Hindutva fascism calls in question India’s assertion to be a secular democracy
Barrister Sultan Mahmood Choudhary “Kashmiri diaspora has played an important role in mobilizing the global public opinion in favor of the situation in Indian occupied Kashmir. They have maintained that…
Danger ahead
Unresolved land border issues continue to shackle India in the north By Pravin Sawhney A good method to assess India's military power is to understand the dynamics of its two…