Category: CASA DIALOGUES
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Kashmir Elections – Impact on Pakistan
Mr Tahir Aslam Gora and I had a wide ranging conversation on Kashmir, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The significant issue is that he feels for the first time he sees signs break up of Pakistan due to synergies developing between militant, political and social stands of Baluch and Pashtun movements. It will be beyond the divided…
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Nature of Threats From an Unstable Pakistan
There is s perception gaining currency that the threat from Pakistan is reducing as its multi crisis endures and the economy enters into an unknown territory. As per evidence on ground Pakistan’s conventional and nuclear capability has not been affected despite the problems it faces. In fact the threat from an unstable Pakistan is much…
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BANGLADESH : WHAT NEXT
The webinar got tremendous response from Bangladesh. It indicated a lot go antipathy to India. The need of the hour is to avoid knee jerk reactions and exhibit strategic patience. The central theme of Lt Gen Gautam Moorthy (R) , Lt Gen Ata Hasnaian (R) and Ambassador Gautam Mukhopadhya was on rebuilding relations with a…
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FRIENDS OF BANGLADESH
In this episode I have put across the reality of those whom Bangladesh considers as its friends and also the reality of India. Bangladesh has to realise that it is interlocked with India and has no way out. It has a choice of cooperating for mutual benefit or under conditions of loss. It has to…
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EXPLODING FAULT LINES IN PAKISTAN
Lt Gen K J Singh (R) has this simple and direct view that Pakistan came into being with manufacturing defects. This unnatural nation has endemic fault lines which include its permanently unsettled borders, constitutional shortcomings, religious flaws. societal cracks and many more including the geographical fault of being dependant on only one river. It was…
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MENDING INDIA USA FENCES
Mr Sree Iyer and I discussed the frayed India USA relationship and why it needs mending. Fundamentally if China is to be contained as per the Indo Pacific Strategy, there is no choice but for India and USA to cooperate. In this context there is a greater need for India and USA not to act…
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A POLITICO MILITARY ASSESSMENT OF PAKISTAN’S ARMED FORCES : PART 2 – PROTECTING ITS POSITION IN SOCIETY
IN THIS EPISODE I HAVE OUTLINED HOW THE PAKISTAN ARMY HAS SYSTEMATICALLY TAKEN OVE THE GOVERNANCE OF PAKISTAN AND HAS CEMENTED ITS ROLE IN THE SOCIETY. A POLITICO MILITARY ASSESSMENT OF PAKISTAN’S ARMED FORCES / PART 1 -GUARDING THE NATIONS BORDERS A POLITICO MILITARY ASSESSMENT OF THE PAKISTAN ARMED FORCES : PART 3- DEFENDING GODS CAUSE
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Analysing Bangladeshi Import of Pakistani Ammunition
Mr Sree Iyer and I had a conversation of why Bangladesh is importing ammunition from India and what are the implications of this issue.
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Will Pakistan Disintegrate?
The internal state of Pakistan is as cracked as it can be. It is riven by violent outbursts of internal dissent, peaceful movements seeking some sort of justice, intractable radical trends, economic degradation and a polity which is at odds with itself under the overarching umbrella of a predatory and greedy Army which seeks to…
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US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS : IMPLICATIONS FOR INDIA
The CASA webinar on the US Presidential elections and its implications for India was interesting. It emerges that the ‘unknown’ Harris could sandpaper the India US strategic partnership with human rights issues and centerstage fringe activism on Khalistan and Kashmir while the ‘known’ Trump will rub us hard on trade and a higher level of…
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