Pakistani Government’s attempt to muzzle Freedom of Speech
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:31 pm
According to media reports in Pakistan, the ruling Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) coalition government is seriously considering the creation of a specialised “task force” to scrutinise social media campaigns that are detrimental to the army’s image.
Jammu and Kashmir: Tense Peace
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:31 pm
On March 24, 2023, Security Forces (SFs) foiled an infiltration bid and killed one terrorist in the Jabdi area of Tangdhar village, along the Line of Control (LoC), in Kupwara District.
Here's all you need to know about flagship 'Pradhan Mantri Nai Manzil Yojana'
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:31 pm
According to the 2001 census, about 20% of the 102.8 crore population of our country is of minorities.
Arunachal Pradesh: Corridor Insurgencies
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:31 pm
On March 9, 2023, a militant of the Niki Sumi-led faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K-NS), Jangwang Tangjang, surrendered before Security Forces (SFs) in the Tirap District of Arunachal Pradesh.
Muslim Manifesto: Bandage wounds, and walk into future
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:31 pm
In India, it’s always time for Muslims to awaken from dogmatic slumber. However, it’s never been as urgent as it is today.
Fate of ancient Hindu temple in Peshawar tells a tale
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:31 pm
On 10 February 2023, the Peshawar High Court expressed its displeasure that after more than three years, the issue of the Panj Tirath, a place of pilgrimage and prayer for Hindus in Pakistan had not been solved and hinted that corruption among local officials was the main reason for the delay in settling the issue.
Balochistan: Cycles of Repression and Reaction
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:52 pm
On February 10, 2023, two Army personnel were killed in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion in the Kohlu area (Kohlu District) of Balochistan.
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:52 pm
Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management
Jharkhand: Plunging Insurgency
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:52 pm
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
On January 8, 2023, Mohammad Salim, deputy leader of Block B, Rohingya Camp-8 West, in the Ukhiya Sub-District of Cox's Bazar District, was killed by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA).
Energy Transitions and Geopolitics in South Asia: The Contest for Hydro-Hegemony on the Brahmaputra
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
The centrality of oil and gas in shaping the international relations of the 21st century have long created an academic and public policy focus on the relationship between energy and geopolitics.
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
In a dramatic, though expected, development in Nepal’s politics, on December 26, 2022, Maoist veteran Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda took the oath as Prime Minister of Nepal for the third time. He had earlier served as Prime Minister in 2008-2009 and 2016- 2017.
Balochistan rises in revolt, reminds Pakistan of its Bangladesh loss
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
Fifty-one years on, Pakistan gets sharp reminders of its Bangladesh loss as yet another province, Balochistan, rises in revolt.
Bannu Division: Terrorist Ferment
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management
Chen Xiangrong: A martyr or another of CCP’s propaganda tactics
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
As the anti-COVID protest swept through China in Nov 2022, frustrations against the draconian Zero COVID policy as well as the Xi government also came to surface.
Indigenous peoples and digital rights: The future of India’s northeast borderlands
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
Ravi Shankar Prasad argues that “The Digital India Programme (Digital Northeast vision 2022) is designed to transform India into a knowledge-based economy and a digitally empowered society by ensuring digital services, digital access, digital inclusion, digital empowerment and by bridging the digital divide.”
Borders and Borderlands: Integration vs Assimilation
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
Borders are artificial constructs drawn on paper by the powers that be to serve their interests under the Westphalian State system and have been further legitimised by the excesses of colonialism from the fifteenth to the twentieth century C.E., as well as the subsequent decolonisation process.
The Islamization of Bangladesh by General Ziaur Rahman
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
The creation of Bangladesh delegitimized the “two nation theory,” and soon after its emergence, new country Bangladesh adopted the four-pronged state ideology of nationalism, democracy, socialism and secularism.
Dera Ismail Khan: Reviving Terrorism
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
On December 6, 2022, three terrorists were killed and another was injured in an exchange of fire during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) by the Security Forces (SFs) in the Girah Mastan area of the Daraban tehsil (revenue unit) in the Dera Ismail Khan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
Last week marked the formal taking charge of Pakistan’s 17th Chief of Army Staff (COAS), four-star General Asim Munir, who replaced the now-retired Qamar Javed Bajwa as head of the Pakistani Army. Munir has become COAS at a time when Pakistan faces various political challenges, ranging from the escalating insurgency of the Pakistani Taliban (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan - TTP) along the border with Afghanistan, continued loan negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), economic downturn, the political standoff between the Sharif government and Imran Khan-led opposition, and the prevailing humanitarian response issues linked to the floods of the summer.
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
In a statement released on Umar Media, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s (TTP’s) official web site on November 28, 2022, Mufti Muzahim, the TTP’s ‘Minister of Defence’ announced an end to the seven months-long ceasefire. Muzahim “ordered” TTP forces throughout Pakistan “to launch attacks anywhere in the country” in response to Pakistani military operations. The outfit claimed that it chose to end the ceasefire after “the army and intelligence agencies continue to raid and attack” its forces. “And now our revenge attacks will continue in the whole country,” the TTP statement concluded.
The Spiralling Crime Graph: A Wake-Up Call to End Violence Against Women
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
On this International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, let's step back and look at eleven years of statistics, 2011–2021, which indicate a ninefold, or 87.3 percent, increase in violence against women. According to the annual data released by the National Crime Record Bureau in the past eleven years, the highest percentage of crimes against women reported in 2021 rose by 15.3 per cent.
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was shot and injured during a protest rally in Punjab province on 3 November in an incident that left one bystander dead and at least six others, including leaders of Khan’s (PTI), wounded.
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
On November 8, a Rohingya man, identified as Mohammed Selim, was killed in a gunfight between two groups of criminals in Teknaf sub-District of Cox's Bazar District. Mohammed Selim lived in the Noapara Rohingya camp.
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:53 pm
The Sudhir Suri killing in Amritsar on November 4, 2022, is a direct outcome of the intentional politics of hate and communal polarization that is actively being encouraged by major political parties at the Centre and in the state, and that the victim had himself long been engaged in.
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:54 pm
On October 23, one person, identified as Jameza Mubin, died in an early morning explosion in a gas cylinder-laden Maruti 800 near the Kottai Eswaran Temple in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore District.
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:54 pm
Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management
Odisha: Kandhamal – Futile Struggle
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:54 pm
On October 11, 2022, a woman Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadre was killed during an exchange of fire with the Security forces (SFs) in the Sindhi Forest area under Baliguda Police Station limits in Kandhamal District. A trooper was also injured in the exchange of fire. Another 20 Maoists managed to flee, taking cover of the hilly terrain. A country-made pistol and other materials were seized from the spot. The identity of the slain woman Maoist is yet to be ascertained; however, it is suspected that Maoists belonging to the ‘Kandhamal-Kalahandi-Boudh-Nayagarh (KKBN) Division’ of the CPI-Maoist were running the camp in the Sindhi forested area.
The world needs to understand: Kashmir is an integral part of India
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:54 pm
It is not long since Russia mocked British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as “utterly confused” and ridiculed British politicians for their “stupidity” and “ignorance”. One is fascinated to say the same about the recent Kashmir reference of the German foreign minister.
Balochistan: An eye for an eye
Sep 15, 2024, at 12:54 pm
On September 30, 2022, three Military Intelligence (MI) and two Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were killed while several others were injured in an explosion at a sweet shop in the main market of Kohlu town (Kohlu District) in Balochistan. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), through social media, claimed responsibility for the incident, claiming that it had targeted a ‘secret agency hideout’.