South Asia

Assessment of South Asian regional security, India–Pakistan relations, Afghanistan stability, regional diplomacy, and cross-border security challenges.

Maldives crisis – options for India: My opinion on WION News updated

Sharing my opinion published in WION News duly updated. An analysis about Indian options in WION News. http://www.wionews.com/india-news/opinion-maldives-crisis—options-for-india-163715 Democracy has prevailed in Maldives but the distance between the cup and the lip does not seem to be reducing, with President…

What makes Siyang River Violent and black: Has water, a global common undergone tampering?

River Yarlung Tsangpo when enters Siang district is commonly called as Siang River, which drains  to join other rivers to be called as Brahmaputra River. Its water had been abnormally muddy,  murky and black since last November.  It has turned…

China’s “Debt Trap” in Pakistan: The Risk of Diluting the FATF Ruling

Sharing an article of mine Published in Future Directions International on the subject. The URL is placed below. Under normal circumstances, a one billion dollar loan between two sovereign countries would have gone unnoticed by global the community, but…

Only Victorious Indian Army can save 93,000 Pakistani Army prisoners of war. A video worth a view.

In context of daily abrogation of ceasefire by Pakistani Army, and urge to push in terrorists into India, Pakistani Army often boasts of false sense of bravado. They well understand it and call India as existential threat to them, to…

Opinion: With Kashmir ceasefire, India walks a fine line: Maj Gen Asthana, WION News

  The developmental efforts initiated by Indian government in Jammu and Kashmir are appreciative and welcome measure for the state, as well as for the country and adds to physical, mental and social outreach of the nation into far flung…

Interview of Maj Gen S B Asthana by Financial Express on Pakistan, China and some related issues

Notwithstanding the President Xi Jinping becoming autocratic ruler of China, trying to take Asia under his wings, and no significant change in Pakistan’s behavior in recent times (including recent spate with diplomats), India has to deal firmly with both, on our…