FOCUS | THEMATIC | TERRORISM
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Tiers of Motivation: Bilateral and Regional Drivers of the Iran-Pakistan Missile Strikes
Muneer Ahmed. · 30 Jan, 2024 · #5868 · Commentary
On 16 January, Iran launched highly
coordinated precision strikes in Pakistan’s Balochistan, while Pakistan retaliated on 18
January, after protesting diplomatically. These strikes were conducted across Goldsmid
line, which demarcates Pakistan†...
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Red Affairs
Militancy in J&K: An Annual Review
Bibhu Prasad Routray. · 26 Jan, 2024 · #5867 · Commentary
On 15 January 2024, the Indian army chief said that militancy in
Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) was under control. Before that, the home minister
indicated that the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP)-led government at the Centre had been successful in
c ...
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Red Affairs
The Permanence of Chaos in Kashmir
Bibhu Prasad Routray. · 30 Sep, 2023 · #5860 · Commentary
Official claims about the security situation in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), especially since the August 2019 decision to abrogate Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, portray a vastly improved scenario. The Minister of State for Home Affairs Ni ...
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Special Commentary
How to Read al-Zawahiri’s Killing
Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy.. · 31 Aug, 2022 · #5828 · Commentary
On 1 August 2022, the
US announced
that it had killed al Qaeda Chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in “a precise, tailored airstrike” on a safe house in Kabul. In his remarks, US
President Joe Biden said al-Zawahiri had moved to downtown Kabul to “reuni ...
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Book Review
A Practitioner’s Expert View of India’s Relationship with Pakistan
Rana Banerji. · 25 Aug, 2022 · #5826 · Commentary
It
is heartening to see Indian career diplomats of recent vintage penning their
understanding of the complex India-Pakistan relationship. Soon after The People Next Door (Harper Collins, 2017) by T.C.A. Raghavan, India’s high
commissioner in Isl ...
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Strategic Space
From Bangladesh to Balakot: The Impact of Nuclear Weapons on India-Pakistan Dynamics
Manpreet Sethi. · 14 Dec, 2021 · #5799 · Commentary
Swarnim Vijay Varsh was celebrated throughout 2021 to mark 50 years of India’s
victory against Pakistan in the 1971 war. The three services commemorated their
successes: the Indian Air Force’s achievement of complete air superiority, its extens ...
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What does the Taliban Takeover in Afghanistan Mean for China?
Cherry Hitkari. · 13 Oct, 2021 · #5792 · Commentary
The return of the Taliban in Afghanistan marks the
commencement of a new chapter in Asian geopolitics. China, as an aspiring
superpower and Kabul's largest neighbour, sees both opportunities to be seized
and risks to be staved off on the Afghan tu ...
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Afghanistan’s Education Sector: Prospects Under Taliban Rule
Fazlullah Akhtar and Amit Ranjan. · 11 Oct, 2021 · #5791 · Commentary
Two decades of war conducted by
the US and its allied forces against the Taliban ended in August 2021 with the Taliban’s
return to power in Afghanistan. If precedents are any indication, the Afghan education sector is one of the key sectors set
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The Strategist
Afghanistan: The Consequences of US Withdrawal
Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar. · 29 Jun, 2021 · #5772 · Commentary
President Biden announced
on 14 April 2021 the end of what is described as America’s “forever war” in
Afghanistan. The announcement
came nearly two decades after the US invasion of Afghanistan. Ten years ago,
the US proclaimed
the accompli ...
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COVID-19 & Southeast Asia
Terrorism in the Philippines in 2020
Siddharth Anil Nair. · 28 Apr, 2021 · #5763 · Commentary
By the first
quarter of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had created conditions for greater population
control and surveillance, allowing Southeast Asian states seeking to dismantle
terror groups (TG) the opportunity to do so. While the pandemic had fo ...
