Himalayan Affairs : Articles

Pak In Cold Sweat Over “Cold Start”

2010-09-07T03:32:05.0000000-04:00

New Delhi – The wily Chief of the Pakistan Army Gen Ashfaq Kayani took a leaf out the book of his jihadi mentor General Ziaul Haq who in the late 70s organised a much-trumpetted Zarb-e-Momin military exercise as a riposte

Myanmar is Planning to Make Atom Bombs

2010-09-07T03:28:56.0000000-04:00

New Delhi – Myanmar is planning to make atomic bombs, is no good news for India. No country in the world would like to have a nuclear weapons state as its neighbour. Obviously, India would also not like Myanmar to b

Kashmir, Kabul and Kayani

2010-09-03T02:28:40.0000000-04:00

The dark horse has bolted out of the stable and is bucking and rearing but none of the cowboys around are trying to lasso it, forget saddling it.

Pakistan Army (PA) chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani’s allergy to I

Will Wikileaks Make any Difference?

2010-09-03T02:21:35.0000000-04:00

There seems no point in shooting off the “we told you so” line following ‘Wikileak’, or, that I am one of those who have been writing since eight years about Pakistan Army (PA) / Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) playing

ULFA in a Pincer

2010-08-24T06:20:48.0000000-04:00

New Delhi – As India and Bangladesh step up their cooperation in fighting crime, militancy and terrorism, a new sense of confidence and mutual trust prevails. On July 17, Dhaka for the first time officially announ

Will Pakistan Slip into Iranian-type Islamic Revolution?

2010-08-24T06:16:40.0000000-04:00

New Delhi - The key person Pakistan’s corridors of power today is its army chief General Ashfaq Kayani. He may not be politically flamboyant in character as General Pervez Musharraf was. But he is professionally w

HOW NOT TO FIGHT TERRORISM

2010-08-16T00:36:17.0000000-04:00

New Delhi — The Wikileak expose apart, the US Government and politicians have done more to undercut the War On Terror by publically and continuously attacking Afghan President Hamid Karzai of corruption. It has hand

Stone Pelting in kashmir : The Truth Behind It

2010-08-12T00:43:55.0000000-04:00

New Delhi – Stone pelting in Kashmir valley in turning to be as well paid business for the unemployed youth who are doing this for a particular price.

It is said that lakhs of rupees are generated thr

Forlorn Cry of a Mother

2010-08-12T00:35:17.0000000-04:00

Imphal – In Manipur, there has been a spurt of kidnapping of students by militants. In three incidents on July 19 and 20, four students including a post graduate medical student were abducted by armed militants in

Balochistan Situation

2010-08-12T00:28:48.0000000-04:00

New Delhi — The Pakistani diplomatic coup in inserting a reference to Balochistan in the Shram-al-Sheikh bilateral declaration insinuating Indian instigation of the uprising by the Balochistan tribes – Baloch, Mar