Reading The Riot Act
It is now 19 years when Gujarat 2002 riots happened. The public memory of the nation has forgotten the event. Until has come a book Under Cover My Journey into the Darkness…
Haider Abbas
US-China Cross Swords Over Taiwan
The US efforts to ruffle-feathers with China does not seem to cease as US has sent its senior Keith Krach to Taipei, the capital of Taiwan on September 17, 2020,…
India-China Situation Aggravates
The two world largest armies and unarguably the Asian largest economy and the third largest economy China and India seem determined to undermine each other in this seemingly uneasy scenario…
Gilgit-Baltistan Is The New Hotspot
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced to make Gilgit-Baltistan, a part of the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir, as the fifth province of Pakistan on September 17, 2020,…
Afghanistan On A Very Sticky Wicket
The Afghan-Taliban and the US sponsored Ashraf Ghani government seem to be heading towards a deadlock, as very soon US, after its disastrous war with Afghan-Taliban , is slated to…
India-China Poised On A Razor’s Edge
The situation between China-India and with India-Pakistan is now into an extremely sensitive zone as there is a report for the first time from the Indian army, though through a…
Has Rajnath Singh Signalled War Preparedness?
When Indian defense minister Rajnath Singh declared on record, in parliament, that China is illegally occupying 38,000 sq. kms of land in Ladakh 1 and eyeing further 90,000 sq. kms…
Indian Defence Minister Admits In Parliament That China Has Occupied 38,000 sq. kms. Of Land In Ladakh
When India’s external affairs minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, met in Moscow on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on September 10, 2020, and issued…
Bahrain-Israel Ties: The Second Wicket Has Fallen
The UAE-Israel formalisation of ties on August 14, 2020 1, was a bang and Bahrain-Israel normalisation of ties declared on September 12, 2020 2 turned out to be a…
India Not To Allow ‘Khalistan Referendum 2020’
It is well known fact that the Khalistan movement, which was to make a separate homeland for the Sikhs within India, had been considered ‘long-dead’ by the Indian government, after…
India, Israel And The Arab States
The president of US Donald Trump is of course too much meant to be busy for the November 2020 elections, and despite the stand-off with China on many fronts, particularly…
For Iran China Is In, India Not
India’s war with China is getting more and more imminent, as what has finally come out, after the talks between India’s defence minister Rajnath Singh and his Chinese counterpart Wei…
From ‘Greater-Turkey’ To ‘Blue-Homeland’
The real ‘Turkish-Delight’ was into its consonance as Turkey President Tayyip Erdogan, on August 21, 2020 announced the discovery of large reserves of oil/gas and hydrocarbons in Mediterranean sea 1…
Is War Imminent?
India which is already bogged down by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic as its economy is into a ‘meltdown’, right now is in quite a piquant position as the…
How ‘QUAD’ To Counter China On The Lines Of NATO
The first-round between China and US, from the past couple of months, has gone to the US side, as surely and certainly a lot is happening in terms of geo-politics,…
USA Is Wary Of China
The US Office of the Secretary of Defense Report released on Sep 2, 2020, is a 200-page document available free in PDF form, is named as Military and Security Developments…
Turkey To Take On European Union All Alone
The world is dangerously heading towards a war which eventually has the likelihood to change into a world-war. There are now conflict zones getting ‘more aggravated’ owing to geo-political needs…
India Not Able To Fully Abandon Russia
One development which surely has skipped its ‘deserving-importance’ and which could not evoke the due coverage , despite the on-going clashes and conflict hotting-up between India and China, the latest…
Is India Prepared For A Two-Front War?
Photo Courtesy: India Today All the news of de-escalation between China and India, has turned out to be farce, as the heat which began in May 2020, and which reached…
Iran Sitting On A Ticking Powder Keg
Shahran oil depot in north west Tehran has been likened to a "hydrogen bomb" The subterfuge and sabotage, particularly after the August 4, 2020 Beirut, Lebanon blasts 1…
Israel To Keep An Eye On Pakistan via Yemen
How many of us have had any clue about Socotra Island which had recently been in news ( on June 21, 2020) when it was reported 1 that Houthi…
US-China Showdown Has Begun
US is itching for a war. In fact it is inching towards a war, a war which probably will have the full potential to change into a ‘third-world-war’, solely,…
Israel Will Never Allow Pakistan Have Access To UAE’s F-35
When US made UAE and Israel to normalise their bi-lateral relations, on August 14, 2020, within ten days when the flames of Beirut, Lebanon had not even got doused, the…
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia humiliates Pakistan
The political developments in Gulf-region are leaving no scope to imagination that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is now working as an extended-arm of US, which is what…
The Reckoning Is Ought To Be Tough With China
The developments in world polity took to a storm when on August 14, 2020, United Arab Emirates(UAE) and Israel decided to normalise their relations 1 , with Kingdom of Saudi…
Israel-UAE Bonhomie: The Dangers Ahead
Even when the flames of the blasts of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon 1 on August 4, 2020, had not doused, where death and destruction, misfortune and misery has become…
Turkey And Greece-Israel Heading For A Showdown
There are conflict zones or rather war-zones fast developing in the world right now. India is facing Pakistan in Kashmir, China in Ladakh and China is facing US, Japan, Australia,…
The Israel – UAE Bonhomie
The improbable and unprecedented has happened. United Arab Emirates (UAE) has declared to normalise relations with the state of Israel on August 14, 2020 1 , after a phone-call between…
India To Face China-Pakistan ‘Hand in Hand’ in Mountains and Oceans
The China-Pakistan ‘hand in hand’ against India has now come all out in the open after the USNews.com 1 on August 6, 2020, published an elaborate report as to how…
Israel Threatens Pakistan and Saudi Arabia Ditches Pakistan on Kashmir
The day when Lebanon blasts occurred i.e. August 4, 2020, the same day a news was floated that Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is clandestinely pursuing a nuclear-agenda with the…
An Arab Autumn 2.0 Awaits To Happen
The purported Arab Spring 2.0 which I would say as Arab Autumn 2.0 has begun, and the bad omens are writ large, as not even a week has passed, that…
US Anyhow Want CPEC/BRI Dead
There seems to be a different wind blowing from US as President Donald Trump is gearing to meet to his November 2020 elections, and has dropped a signal, that…
Beirut Will Take Decades To Rebuild
Lebanon, the Switzerland of Middle-East and its capital Beirut-the Paris of Middle-East, a house to 2.4 million people 1 , out of 6.8 2 million in whole of Lebanon ,…
Through Sanctions On Iran US To Target CPEC And BRI
It was to be only for naives, not to have expected US to throw a spanner into the Iran-China 400 billion USD ‘trade and military’ deal , for 25 years…
India To Take China On Its Own
The heat around the Himalayas is getting hard and talks between India-China have as yet only failed and it is now for India to finally take-on China on its own,…
Iran And Israel Spar Over Cyber Warfare
There is a whole lot of churning going on in Iran, which has been at loggerheads with US, for around more than five-decades, as it traces its modern tussle with…
India Caught Between US And China-Russia Duel
The events unfolding in terms of military deployment and military exercises by US in South China sea are a clear sign that any small spark is to lead to triggering…
The Growing China – Israel Conflict
The ‘annexation deal’ which is referred as ‘deal of the century’ under which Israel is to annex West Bank of Palestine and for which Donald Trump is being heavily…
The Haqeeqat of our defense policy
There is a new body-posturing everyday by China over the parts of India, some already under its control in Ladakh, and China is now putting claim over Arunachal Pradesh…
US In A Downward Spiral
The US Presidential election by November 2020 is slowly-slowly gaining momentum and Donald Trump and Joseph Biden are into a gruelling battle for the coveted rank. US all over…
Hagia Sophia – Babri Masjid And Temple Mount
There hasn’t been any news in the world media as to what Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad Al Makli said on June 16, 2020, about how the purported annexation of…
India Both Internally And Externally Strained
As if the Chabahar debacle was not enough, as Iran scrapped its deal with India and instead entered into a 400 billion USD deal with China, that Iran has also…
US-India-Israel Versus China-Pakistan-Iran Axis
The Chabahar (Iran), which means four-springs, fiasco for New Delhi was quite in the making. India invested in Chabahar to reach to the market in the Arab world and more…
India Is Well Into The Great Game
What has triggered the on-going Indo-China face-off , if not its roots are to be found in August 5, 2019 when BJP led NDA-2 abrogated J&K Article 370 and made…
Foreign Policy Is Not An Easy Cake
In BJP led NDA-1 Narendra Modi was quite much on a whirlwind tour of the world. It is estimated that by July 2020 he had visited 60 countries with many…
Gulabo-Shitabo In The First Place
I am not a polyglot. I am unbeknownst to Urdu-my mother’s language for I am the unfortunate generation who learnt English as well as Urdu sonnets but without Urdu in…
Kashmir And Turkey
It must have been music to China ears, battling with Coronavirus rising number of deaths in its Wuhan province , when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced from Pakistan alongside…
Foreign Policy: The Sino-India Tug-O-War
The Rajapaksa duo , Gotabaya and Mahinda ( on November 18& 21) have sworn as President and PM of Sri Lanka, riding on the high tide of ethnic Sinhala nationalist…
Ayodhya Verdict: Muslims Won The Case But Lost The Land
Why is the Hindu media, newspapers and news channels so gung-ho over All India Muslim Personal Law Board ( AIMPLB)-the prime most Muslim body in the nation, deciding to…
Congress And BJP Have Triumphed Over Ayodhya
Muslims had pinned their every hope for Justice in Ramjanambhumi/Babri Masjid case, for it was only Supreme Court where-in laid their last recoup. But, the spleen in the name of…
Babri Masjid And The Two Chairmen Of Shia – Sunni Waqf Boards
As the Ramjanambhumi/Babri Masjid, Ayodhya/Faizabad,UP case draws to a close the Muslim society faultlines, contradictions, loopholes and potholes have all as yet again come out in the open. In fact…
Ayodhya Storm Will Pass, The Dignity And Honor Of Supreme Court Can Not Be Compromised Because Of It
When Babri Masjid had lay demolished on December 6, 1992, at the hands of Hindu fanatics, the world sympathised with Muslims of India. Muslims were outraged, betrayed and flabbergasted and…
Babri Masjid/Ramjanmabhumi: Will Democracy Survive or Mobocracy Thrive?
The nation is bracing for the judgement in the most controversial issue of India, the Ramjanambhumi/Babri Masjid, Ayodhya, Faizabad, UP case where Muslims are waiting with bated breath and Hindus…
Babri Masjid Is Up For Sale
The countdown to the judgement in the nation’s 134 years old suit of Ramjanambhumi/Babri Masjid, Ayodhya, Faizabad, UP has begun and is certain to find its conclusion on or before…
Dragon Vs Elephant
The whole of the first half of October, was consumed by Chinese President Xi Jinping informal summit to India and thereafter a formal summit in Nepal, hogging the media limelight.…
Babar Provided Rs 60 Annually For Babri Masjid As ‘Nankar’
The nation’s longest case of Ramjanambhumi/Babri Masjid, Ayodhya, Faizabad, UP is now to be heard for only four days more, after Dusherra holidays, from October 14 to October 17 and…
Ayodhya Has Perished Multiple Times
Hadein woh khainch rakhi hain haram ke paasbano ne/ Ke bin mujrim bane paigham bhi pahucha nahi sakta ( Such lines have been drawn by the owners of pride/ Unless…
Hindus Want Balance of History
The Muslims of India are fighting the case of Babri Masjid as their last line of defense. The odds are heavily against. A very hostile Hindu populace, with BJP striding…
Babri Masjid: It Is ‘Aastha’ Versus Evidence Now In Supreme Court
The Ramjanambhumi/Babri Masjid, Ayodhya, Faizabad, UP, title suit is in its last phase, since, the Supreme Court ordered its hearing to start on a day to day basis from Aug…
Babri Masjid – Ram Janmabhoomi: Contextualising The Historical Content
History is to be interrogated. Subjected to scanners, sieved and then made to make a standpoint. Eye witnesses accounts or contemporary or near contemporary sources are to be thoroughly probed,…
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