Guns fall silent on India-Pakistan border
March 1, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Indian army soldiers patrol at the Line of Control between India and Pakistan, Poonch, about 250 kilometres from Jammu city, Dec. 18, 2020.
The e...
US, Iran edging back to negotiating table
February 24, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
The frozen lake of US-Iran confrontation is generating a pinging sound. The cracking of the ice is yet to produce that loud booming thunderclap. But t...
India has lessons from Sino-Russian normalisation
February 24, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
At a press conference in Beijing on Monday, when asked about China’s attitude toward BRICS cooperation and India’s current chair...
The zen of Ladakh disengagement
February 22, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Wang Yi and Ajit Doval
The 9th round of talks at the army commanders’ level between India and China resulted in a breakthrough th...
US-Indian strategic construct of Western Indian Ocean runs...
February 15, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Pakistan Navy is hosting largest multinational maritime exercise ‘Aman 21’ in North Arabian Sea on February 11-16, 2021.
The AMAN-21...
With eye on Biden, India’s Iran diplomacy shifts gear
February 3, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
By a fortuitous happening, the top South Block official heading the Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran Division in India’s External Affairs Ministr...
Taliban risks losing international legitimacy
January 30, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
A high-powered Taliban delegation led by Mullah Baradar arrived in Tehran for consultations on January 26, 2021
A high-level delegation led...
US-Pak reset to advance Biden’s Afghan settlement
January 25, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Barack Obama (C) with advisers reviewing Afghan exit plan, vice- president Joe Biden (L), White House, Washington, DC, circa 2010
Mark Twa...
Biden’s Idea of India and Savarkar’s are poles apart
January 23, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
According to media reports, the US President Joe Biden has picked as many as 20 Indian-Americans for senior positions in his government, and the commo...
Blinken’s diplomatic cart will have a bumpy ride
January 21, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
US Secretary of State-designate Antony Blinken at confirmation hearing of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Washington, Jan 19, 2021
The confir...
Boris Johnson has done Modi a favour
January 12, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson conferring on the latter the great honour of being the chief g...
Biden needs Russia and China’s help to cut Trump’s Gordian...
January 6, 2021
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
In international diplomacy, while creating narratives, there is a criticality about the timeline over normative values. Iran’s announcement on D...
China’s mission to Nepal gains traction
December 31, 2020
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
There can be no two opinions that China has huge stakes in Nepal’s stability. The leitmotif of the visit to Kathmandu by the delegation from the...
India’s military diplomacy is delusional
December 22, 2020
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
India’s chief of the army staff General Manoj Mukund Naravane (L) met top Saudi generals, Riyadh, December 14, 2020
The recent visits...
The endgame in Afghanistan is near
December 21, 2020
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, right, with Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, fifth from left, and his delegation during their mee...
India still has time to calm ties with China
December 15, 2020
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his India visit in 2014. Photo: Xinhua
Two Indian correspondents...
India’s Gulf strategy is chasing Chinese phantoms
December 10, 2020
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani (R) received External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, Manama, Dec 24, 2020
T...
Saudi overtures to Qatar and Turkey bring results
December 6, 2020
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (R) welcomes Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Ankara, Turkey, Nov. 26, 2020
A rapprocheme...
Israel gets boxed in as Iran issue surges
December 3, 2020
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Iran’s nuclear water reactor in the city of Arak
“Iran’s scientific and defense policies won’t change because of the assa...
Historical undercurrents in Nagorno-Karabakh
November 20, 2020
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Azerbaijani army members hold the national Azerbaijani flag during its reconstruction at the dominant height near the village of Talysh, Azerbaijan,...
Spectre of Biden presidency haunts India
November 9, 2020
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
From the Indian perspective, the prospect of a Joe Biden presidency becomes a moment of ‘memory mixing with desire’, to borrow from TS Eli...
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