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Taliban takeover in Afghanistan is a real possibility

Sometimes a single episode in a long drawn-out war helps to focus the mind. The so-called Tet Offensive in January 1968 was one such crucial turning point in the Vietnam…

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The consequences of Kunduz battle

By General (r) Mirza Aslam Baig Kunduz is a turning point of the conflict between the two opposing forces; the Americans and the Taliban. The Americans having failed to achieve…

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Shame on Indian Democracy

India is the biggest democracy in the world, a claim that is endorsed by the leading powers of this world, including the champion of western democracy, America. Before going into…

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Caste contentions deepen as Modi struggles to deliver campaign promises

By Xie Chao Last week, rampant violence in Ahmedabad, the capital city of Gujarat has killed at least 10 people, a tragic event that reminds us of the same state…

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Modi blows his cover and the loss is India’s

By M.K. Bhadrakumar India recently witnessed a strange spectacle of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his cabinet colleagues subjecting themselves to an intense scrutiny by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or…

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India’s role in Asia may not fit ‘Indo-Pacific’ agenda

By Hugh White Many observers tend to assume that India will play a large and growing part as a great power in a wider 'Indo-Pacific' strategic system, that it will…

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By default air superiority was handed over to the PAF in the combat zone

Gen Jogindar Singh, the Chief of Staff of Gen Harbaksh Singh, pays tribute to the role of PAF and highlights the lack of air support by IAF in 1965 war…

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Afghan Army Now Ready – to Lose to the Taliban

One need not be prophetic to sense a bad outcome for the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Almost nothing has gone by plan since the Bush administration joined forces with the…

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Taliban ready for peace talks, who else?

Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence has brilliantly succeeded in squashing the dissent within the Afghan Taliban over the new leadership of Mullah Akhtar Mansoor. The ISI took all in all less than…

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Afghanistan’s 32 year refugee crisis

By Catherine Putz Afghanistan's refugee crisis is decades old. Afghans began fleeing the country after the Saur Revolution in 1978; more fled in the opening scenes of the Soviet invasion…

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