Pakistan

Paper No. 5349                                        Dated 07-Jan-2013

By B. Raman

Media reports emanating from Pakistan’s civilian Government as well as from the General Headquarters (GHQ) of the Army speak of an on-going review of Pakistan’s military doctrine in order to give priority to the creation of a sub-conventional warfare capability to fight domestically against non-State actors posing a threat to Pakistan’s internal security.

Paper No. 5344                                                   Dated 01-Jan-2013

By Dr Subhash Kapila

“Delhi’s Pakistan policy has all the emotional intensity of a battered wife with a karmic commitment to marriage. Justice must surrender to appeasement in the pursuit of some higher purpose”

Paper No. 5329                                                          Dated 17-Dec-2012

By B. Raman

There is no need for one to be surprised by the trail of controversies and anger created by Mr. Rehman Malik, Pakistan’s Interior Minister, during his three-day visit to India from December 14, 2012.

Paper No. 5323                                        Dated 13-Dec-2012

By B. Raman

If NaMo, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, had been well-advised, instead of raising the issue of Sir Creek, he would have raised the insensitive timing of the official visit of Mr. Rehman Malik, the Interior Minister of Pakistan, to India at the invitation of Shri Shushil Kumar Shinde, our Home Minister.

Paper No. 5306                             Dated 22-Nov-2012

Guest Column: Swati Parashar

When the tragedy of 26/11 unfolded in 2008, the trauma was felt far and wide. I was a PhD student in the UK and, far away from home, I shared the grief with millions of Indians as we wondered why Mumbai deserved the gory blood bath. The Chabad house hostages were tortured before being killed by the ten men from Pakistan, to avenge what was happening to the Palestinians.