One of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government’s more interesting promises has been the formation of a new roadmap on Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).Over the past two decades, there have been multiple interactions between Islamabad and New Delhi on this longstanding territorial dispute. The problems preventing a resolution to the J&K dispute are well known; unfortunately, […]
Picking up the Indo-Pak peace
With a new Prime Minister likely to be elected in Pakistan, there is an expectation that the stalled bilateral peace process would get a chance once again. Will Imran Khan and Narendra Modi pick up the bilateral pieces and give peace a chance? Or, will the bilateral process remain a prisoner of the past; yielding […]
India’s west Asia balance
For South Block, it should be a foreign policy coup to get Benjamin Netanyahu, and Hassan Rouhani visits New Delhi within four weeks. Added with the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Palestine, UAE and Oman during the same period, one could appreciate the delicate balance that India is attempting in West Asia. What […]
Conflict in South Asia’s peripheries
The ongoing political crisis in Balochistan is one of the multiple conflicts in South Asia’s peripheries. A cursory look at them across different states in the region will highlight a geographic reality — they are concentrated more on the border regions/provinces and peripheries. Balochistan, FATA, J&K, Northeast, Terai and North-east Sri Lanka — all conflicts […]
India and the idea of ‘Quad’
The second season of the idea of a ‘Quad’ involving India, US, Japan and Australia has just started. Will the idea materialise this time? And is the idea of Quad bigger than what is generally perceived — a partnership to contain China? Will the Quad succeed, given the differences within? The Quad plan was not […]
India’s Chabahar endgame
India has finally fulfilled one of its major commitments in the neighbourhood — activating the Chabahar port. Along with the Sittwe port in Myanmar, Chabahar in Iran was one of the long pending projects. It got delayed due to bureaucratic divide within, and also external pressure. India’s decision to send the first consignment to Afghanistan […]