Archive for Archive for April, 2008
A Gun-point Marriage in Pakistan
Most Pakistanis, barring close aides and admirers of General Musharraf, power-starved followers of Benazir Bhutto and chronic dreamers of democracy have been foxed by the twists and turns in Pakistan’s political fortune and its internal security concerns.
All muslims are not terrorists: some are
The print and electronic and vast sections of Muslim friends have confronted me with the questions: Why all Muslims are painted as terrorists? This is a painful question to face and more painful to answer. My efforts have always been to say as persuasively as possible that a few Piranhas do not make all the [...]
An itinerant’s journey through Pakistan Occupied Kashmir
Traveling through Kashmir, one can not exactly start either from New Delhi or Islamabad or Srinagar. History has shut all the known doors and has opened several secret windows. One such window is the mind of Pakistani ruler of the day. Having fought two major wars and series of proxy wars to prove that Kashmir [...]
Assam: The Bangla hand
The latest ULFA carnage in Assam has been diagnosed by top leaders like quack doctors, broadcasting panic, and their diagnosis is wide off the mark.
Ministers with foot-in-mouth disease rushed to comment about ISI-ULFA involvement and ascribed various silly reasons to befuddle the people. The media has quoted ULFA vice-president Pradip Gogoi as saying that [...]
Balochistan-cruces of history
Most puzzling problems of history-the inscrutable cruces; are creatures of history, intertwined with political geography, which often transcend to the realms of geostrategic Gordian Knots. Balochistan is such a cruces of history, which lay in the main marching tract of human civilisation,
Bangladesh at crossroads
Bangladesh is at crossroads. Political developments during last two years had brought into sharp focus the quantum of ideological chasm between the forces headed by pro-liberation combine headed by Sheikh Hasina and the post-Mujib political usurpers headed by Begum Zia. Bangladesh was born out of the aspirations of the Bengali speaking people to achieve political, [...]
Bangladesh: A Need to Rediscover the Secular Forces
Some scholars and geopolitical analysts feel that the epicentre of the concept and practice of Islamist jihad has shifted from Pakistan to Bangladesh. It has emerged as a critical breeding ground of Islamist jihad. Mushrooming of jihadist tanzeems between 1980 and 2005 apparently supports these allegations. Escalation of violence aimed at overthrowing the constitutional democracy [...]
Better Battle Orders for Fighting Terrorism
October 29th serial blasts in Delhi has again proved that the combat tools of the Union and State governments are awfully deficient in drawing up battle plans against Pakistan’s proxy war and behind the lines strikes by Pakistan and Bangladesh based jihadi tanzeems, which are patronised by the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan and [...]
Bloody Spring Blossom
The spring-thaw at the peak of white winter has blown in warm air in Indo-Pak relationship. A mirage of permanent peace is discernible. It is hoped the spring blooms are not mirages and are not smeared with blood.
However, ordinary Indian citizen, battered by Pakistan’s proxy war and direct jihadist intervention do not feel insulated by [...]
Stagnate or march with time
The news that the UK has abandoned apartheid in its recruitment policy for the Secret Services (MI6) has hit the headlines. The UK has just crossed the colour-blind limits of its core security services. It has also adopted an open-space policy to make recruitment to Secret Services more transparent. Opening up opportunities to naturalised citizens [...]
The ‘intelligent’ games nations play and what they imply
Former Soviet KGB archivist Vassily Mitrokhin has opened a small snuffbox and India should not be rocked by historical truths, though the myth of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi being a Soviet agent is a blatant lie. The India-Russia relationship cannot be gauged by the activities of the secret services. India’s relationship with the USSR was [...]
Games they play
Strategic geopolitical location of India, its importance in regional and global power politics and ever increasing interest of the global players in burgeoning Indian economy have attracted attention of the major intelligence agencies–MI6/ MI5 (UK), CIA (five more US agencies), KGB and GRU (Russia), Direction Generale de la Securite Extrieure (DGSE), Secretariat general de la [...]
Ghost of history
The Ghost of History has again rocked India. However, this is not volcanic explosion, rather storm in a teacup. The Mitrokhin Archives II, an account of KGB activities in India and other parts of the world has revealed very few surprises than what was known to the Indian intelligence community and the political executives.
Espionage activities [...]
