India is ideally suited to provide the military trainers that NATO needs in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan needs more military trainers — NATO has been able to provide only 541 out of 1278 trainers needed for the growing Afghan Army and Police forces — and they aren’t getting them from anywhere. Pakistan has been rather keen to provide [...]
Only one reason — ensure the security and well-being of its citizens, thereby providing them with a better life.
Amidst all the hype over Indian involvement in Afghanistan and lamentations over declining India influence in that country, here is a quick check of the possible reasons that drive India’s continued interest in Afghanistan.
Let us start with [...]
Differing outcomes to similar importance of Russia and India to US interests in Afghanistan.
Well, Holbrooke might not have been welcome in India for some months now but he and his team have been in Beijing and Moscow in buildup to the Obama announcement. Russia’s importance to the US efforts in Afghanistan is not limited to [...]
[Guest blogger, BeeCee weighs in with his observations on the Indian options in Afghanistan.]
Till Obama’s Nobel Prize, Af-Pak strategy of US was definitely the flavour of the season. The theatrics over the Kerry-Lugar bill is merely part strategy and part consequence of the strategy. The trouble with strategic analysis and analysts is that it is [...]
Sending troops to Afghanistan is a valid strategic option for India.
There’s a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. ~Steven Wright
In two separate op-ed pieces today, former army chief General Shankar Roychowdhury and defence analyst Ajai Shukla try to find ways for India to influence the events in Afghanistan. Roychowdhury [...]
China is worried about the Pakistan connection of Uighurs.
As far as the trouble in Xinjiang province goes, here is what the Communist regime in China expects from its neighbours.
China expected cooperation from neighbouring countries to safeguard peace and stability in the region, Qin said replying to a question on whether Beijing has asked neighbours [...]
Some observations and what it means for India.
While most of us were waiting for the AfPak strategy from the Obama administration, what came out on Friday was more of a Pak-Af strategy. There were no major changes in efforts being employed inside Afghanistan. However the focus of the strategy was more on Pakistan. Gauging from [...]
Another reminder of why Pakistani security forces and jehadis should be considered a singular entity.
Notwithstanding the loud assertions of the apologists for Pakistan and its security forces, it is amply clear that the Pakistani state is well and truly defunct now. Especially when it comes to stopping the jehadi onslaught.
In an amazing piece of news, [...]
Pakistan army should focus on the areas neighbouring Afghanistan and on securing ISAF supply lines through Pakistan to keep their Chief’s word to NATO.
In the latest round of attacks on the NATO supply lines that go through the Khyber Pass, the “non-state actors” [or is it "stateless actors", President Zardari?] inside a failing state have [...]
Indian troops in Afghanistan is the only viable solution to counter Pakistani machinations.
Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid says that al-Qaeda conducted these Mumbai attacks through the Lashkar-e-Toiba with a strategic aim.
It is a military strategic objective to get the army out of Bajour and stop the US from stepping in. If tensions between India and Pakistan [...]
…or Pakistan army’s good behaviour for the new administration.
Flexibility is the hallmark of any military and Pakistan army is no different. So they want to project the right image of perfect cooperation with Western forces to the incoming Obama administration. In any case, the President-elect and his advisors have been making the right noises about [...]
In the next episode of the US-Pakistan shadowboxing series, Islamabad has summoned the US ambassador and registered its protests over missile strikes by drones inside Pakistani territory. Will it make any difference to US actions? None whatsoever, if the views of the CIA chief are a pointer to the thinking in the US establishment.
Today virtually [...]
The latest episode of the slanging match between the US and Pakistan over military attacks inside Pakistani territory.
US (via the NATO ISAF in Afghanistan) embarrasses Pakistan by issuing a public statement that “they carried out an attack on an “enemy position” in Pakistan on Sunday with the help of Pakistani security forces”. Pakistan has [...]
…of US strategy in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The Obama Kashmir Thesis continues to ruffle feathers in India. It has now drawn a sharp rebuke from another renowned Indian commentator, K Subrahmanyam. He warns Obama to Lay off Kashmir, as the Obama theory allows Pakistan to get away with mischief on both the fronts — Afghanistan and [...]
…should be our response in Congo.
Why does India send its troops on UN assignments abroad? Although there are many facile arguments put forth for deploying the Indian military in far-away lands “in the cause of an ideal”, it is evident that such deployment is not dictated to meet any national policy or grand diplomatic goals.
There [...]
…has no relation to Pakistan’s reluctance in devoting its military resources against the insurgents in tribal areas.
In an opinion piece for the IHT, MK Rasgotra and Stanley Weiss suggest a three point action plan that would allow Pakistan to focus militarily on taking on the insurgency in tribal areas.
Specifically, India could offer credible assurances of [...]
Some high-level telephone calls… a secret rendezvous… between US and Russian Joint Chiefs of Staff… at Helsinki…
Is it like going back in a time warp? Fortunately, only the superficial similarities bring the feeling of déjà vu about the pre-Berlin Wall era.
The United States and Russia on Tuesday sent their top military officers to this neutral [...]
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