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India’s Northern Frontier concerns

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By K.N. Pandita

Apparently independent India’s northern frontier policy has begun to show signs of stabilizing after six decades of slipshod handling. The first rude shock that bestirred top policy planners came with Kargil war of 1999. The price in terms of man power we paid to recover the strategic Himalayan heights also became catalyst to streamlining of our northern frontier policy.  Continue Reading…

The Great Himalayan Game

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By K.N.Pandita
In recent weeks Defence Minister of India, State Minister of Defence, COAS and the Home Minister were on visits to Ladakh and the border line with China in Cheshul and Nyoma regions. Home Minister Shinde is on second jaunt to the State within a week. All of them have held high power meetings to review security scenario in the sensitive northern frontier of India. Obviously, Chinese factor stands at the centre of these extraordinary closed door deliberations.

By K.N.Pandita

In recent weeks Defence Minister of India, State Minister of Defence, COAS and the Home Minister were on visits to Ladakh and the border line with China in Cheshul and Nyoma regions. Home Minister Shinde is on second jaunt to the State within a week. All of them have held high power meetings to review security scenario in the sensitive northern frontier of India. Obviously, Chinese factor stands at the centre of these extraordinary closed door deliberations.  Continue Reading…

Difficult relationship

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By K.N. Pandita

“We have difficult relations with Pakistan”, said the India’s Minister of External Affairs S.M. Krishna at the UN General Assembly in New York. The difficulty arises because of bi-polarity of Pakistan’s power centre. An undeclared pull and push struggle has been going on in Pakistan ever since its creation. It has intensified in recent years. The struggle is with whom should the ultimate power rest, the Army or the lame civilian governments. Both are politicising Kashmir issue but with different objective. Army presents India as enemy number one, which, according to its notion, has to be contained only through aggressive military power.  Continue Reading…