The writer is a retired diplomat, a freelance columnist and a member of the visiting faculty of the Riphah Institute of Media Sciences, Riphah International University, Islamabad. India continues to deal with the people of Kashmir with a heavy hand to quell the uprising that erupted in all ten districts of Jammu and Kashmir after the killing of Burhan Wani on 8 July. Its security forces have killed more than hundred people and injured and…
Posts published in “Day: November 21, 2016”
Indian ambitions to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) will have to wait for a while longer as the meeting convened in Vienna held for considering admission of non-NPT countries did not go in their favour. While India will consider this as a major setback, considering it lobbied for its admission to the coveted group actively, the NSG has a responsibility towards upholding the integrity of the international non-proliferation regime with the NPT as its…
It is no secret that Indo-Pak relations, acrimonious and rocky even at the best of times, have reached their nadir in recent months. For the outside world these repeated acts of hostility and verbal duels between the sub-continental rivals have rightly become an irritant. Military brinkmanship between two nuclear armed neighbours is indeed the stuff of nightmares – though the local chicken hawks might not think so. Track II diplomacy, often a reliable way of…
ISLAMABAD: After a gap of 13 years, India resorted to the use of artillery barrages against Pakistan last week, further escalating the violations at the Line of Control (LoC), with the result that seven Pakistani soldiers lost their lives on Sunday. Pakistan retaliated by firing back, resulting in 11 Indian soldiers being taken out in the Bhimber sector. The artillery barrages deliver massed artillery fire from a few or many batteries while firing at a…
RAWALPINDI: Indian troops on Thursday resorted to unprovoked heavy shelling at Line of Control (LoC) at various places of Bhimber sector. According to Inter Services Public Relations, Pakistani troops were responding to Indian firing and effectively targeting their positions in retaliation to the unprovoked shelling. Heavy exchange of fire continued till 11PM in the evening. On November 14, COAS General Raheel Sharif had announced that Pakistan had killed 11 Indian soldiers in response to unprovoked…