Why overstate Taliban takeover in Kabul
By K N Pandit Because of the covert and overt help of Pakistan, and the US’ blurred vision of Afghan policy, the Afghan Taliban are walking the streets of Kabul without a stiff battle. The Americans...
View ArticleAfghan scenario in terms of history
By K N Pandita China and Pakistan have joined hands to uproot the semblance of Westminster type of democracy from the Asian continent. That is what has happened in Afghanistan. The Islamic Emirate of...
View ArticleWill the AUKUS alliance eclipse the Quad?
By K N Pandita The trilateral alliance among Australia, UK and the US (AUKUS), recently announced by President Biden from the White House, has given rise to two controversies. One is whether it...
View ArticleTaliban outreach, a myth or reality
By K N Pandita Taliban have often reiterated their policy of Taliban fighters not fighting in a foreign land. How come the rumour of the Taliban possible outreach to Kashmir has been receiving media...
View ArticleAfghan Crisis and Regional Strategy: A Hindsight
By K N Pandita The withdrawal of the American and NATO troops from Afghanistan on 15 August 2021 was more ignominious than the departure of the Soviet troops from their Afghan incursion in 1991. The...
View ArticleCaught up in deadly arms race
By K N Pandita Never before has the world seen its denizens making a bigger effort of self-destruction than what we are witnessing today. Powerful advanced nations have always sought to manufacture...
View ArticleIndia faces a threat of destabilization
By K N Pandita Stating the issue India faces the threat of destabilization by external aggression and internal subversion. External aggression can be from China and/or Pakistan, her two contiguous...
View ArticleIndia and Central Asian Republics to forge close relations
By K N Pandita India belatedly woke to the importance of establishing closer and more favourable relations with the Central Asian Republics after they declared their independence in 1991. Perhaps India...
View ArticlePakistan-Taliban bonhomie under stress
By K N Pandita The Afghans were not very happy with the creation of the Dominion called Pakistan to the east of their country as a result of the partition of India in August 1947. They had more than...
View ArticleKazakhstan disturbances: A warning bell in the CARs
By K N Pandita The sudden eruption of public disturbances in Zhanaozen, the western town in the Central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan on January 2 last, and its quick proliferation in the rest of the...
View ArticleThe controversy over Padma Awards 2022
By K N Pandita This year’s Padma award event has met with some clumsiness. Two things have happened and both have given the nation moments of anxiety. The first is the rejection of the Padma Bhushan...
View ArticleInjecting pragmatism in Indo-Afghan relations
By Kashinath Pandit It will be almost six months that Taliban are back in power. The regime is stabilizing itself steadily and with patience. Its initial appeal to world powers for formal recognition...
View ArticleTehreek-i-Taliban-i-Pakistan has not an easy go
By K N Pandita A by-product of Al Qaeda, the TTP claims that its armed struggle aims at establishing an Islamic political system in Pakistan based on the group’s interpretation of sharia, a task it...
View ArticleUnnecessary row over Padma Awards
By K N Pandita This year’s Padma award event has met with an awkward situation. Two things have happened and both have given the nation moments of anxiety. The first is the rejection of the Padma...
View ArticleImran Khan wants TV debate with PM Modi
K N Pandita An interview with Imran Khan before his departure for Moscow was released by the media soon after his arrival in Moscow. He was on a two-day visit at President Putin’s invitation. Pakistani...
View ArticleUkrainian conflict: a test for Indian statesmanship
K N Pandita The conflict between pro-Russian groups along Ukraine’s border with Russian Federation and the Ukrainian nationalists has been going on for more than a year. Russia had strong reasons to...
View ArticleThe Ukrainian conundrum: a political game-changer
K N Pandita After the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1991, the western powers began nursing the misconception that the entity now named Russian Federation may not deserve to be given the appendage of...
View ArticleHow long the alliance of the evil?
By K N Pandita Pakistan’s interference in Afghanistan from early days of creation of Pakistan has been motivated by two main objectives. One is to acquire strategic depth westward and the second is to...
View ArticleWill Congress leadership shun hypocrisy?
By K N Pandita G-23 wants to get the Congress party rid of the dynastic trio and replaces it with “elected” office-bearers. After spending decades in an environment of hegemonic dispensation some...
View ArticleDo the Democrats respect democracy in real?
By K N Pandita India abstained from voting on the US-sponsored resolution on the Ukrainian crisis in the Security Council’s 26 February meeting. 11 out of its 15 members voted in favour of the...
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