India’s Failed Strategy in Kashmir: CSS Pakistan Affairs Guns have slipped back into holsters and diplomats behind their desks; the Samjhauta or “Concord” Express has resumed its reassuring bi-weekly chug connecting Lahore Junction and Old Delhi Station. Relations between India and …
Why Talking to the Taliban Is the Right Move CSS Current Affairs In 2012, while I was serving as senior adviser to the State Department special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, I met in Istanbul with a group of Iranian …
The Future of Democracy in South Asia Why Citizens Must Stay Vigilant (CSS Pakistan Affairs) On November 14, a fight broke out in the Sri Lankan Parliament. When the Speaker tried to call a vote, a group of MPs heckled him and rushed the …
Why the India-Pakistan Crisis Isn’t Likely to Turn Nuclear (CSS Pakistan Affairs) In May 1999, an Indian military patrol stumbled on several groups of Pakistani soldiers who had set up posts in Kargil, in the Indian-controlled section of the disputed …
Will Sino-US Relations Drive Pak-US Relations? CSS International Relations A Brief History Since Pakistan’s independence in 1947, it has had a mixed relationship with the United States, encompassing several ups and downs over the decades. Pakistan came into being as …
Partition of India: Gandhi’s Role – CSS Pakistan Affairs When the All-India Muslim League was established in Dhaka in 1906 by leading Muslim figures from around the country, India had just begun to slowly transition to self-rule from the British Raj. From …
Why US failed in Afghanistan – CSS Current Affairs Afghanistan has seen one of its worse bloody days in the previous week where more than 220 personnel of security forces and civilians killed and many others sustained injuries in spate of …
Challenges to Pakistan’s Foreign Policy: Part 2 – CSS Pakistan Affairs Pakistan’s current challenges India has not reconciled to the existence of Pakistan and strives to reduce it to the status of a Satellite State.India is making concerted efforts to …
New arrangements in South China Sea- CSS International Relations India’s ‘Look East’ policy, which shifted to ‘Act East’ under the Modi government circa 2015, may now have to quickly shift again – to, say, ‘Watch East’. It will be on …
India-China: A Nuclear War in the making -CSS Current Affairs What if they held a party for the Asian century and Asia’s mega-states came dressed for a war? The century is only 16 years old and China and India are already …