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Pakistani army has never won a war and would not like conventional war with India. We need to get hold of Pakistan’s multiple fault-lines, forcing it to seek war; quit harping on the need for a strong Pakistan, it is time to balkanize Pakistan once again. Thoughts??? Read more at...

While the government has increased the defence budget by 5.91 per cent for FY 2018-19 to Rs 2,95,511.41 crore, the allocation is estimated at around 1.58 per cent of the GDP — the lowest since 1962 once again dashing the hopes for any major jump in military modernisation despite heightened...

Has the conflict of 1962 Indo-Sino war awakened the Government and policy makers in India to invest heavily in Armed forces and defence. Does the aggression of Pakistan in 1965 and threat from China has ever since kept Indian on alarming situation. Investment in defence which came after Indo...

India’s ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) is the space agency of the Indian government headquartered in the city of Bengaluru. Its vision is to “harness space technology for national development, while pursuing space science research and planetary exploration”It was Established in 15th...

India has developed the PRITHVI-II as a Pakistan specific deterrent. NEW DELHI: A week after India conducted an Agni-IV test, Pakistan yesterday conveyed its "concern" about New Delhi's missiles program to the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), saying that it posed "a danger to regional...

The first photos from the Abbottabad compound where Osama Bin Laden had been killed early in the morning on May 2, 2011, clearly shows something never seen before: the remains of one of the helicopters used by the U.S. Navy SEALs in Operation “Neptune’s Spear”, didn’t seem to belong to any known...

Pakistan yesterday warned the United States that preferring New Delhi over Islamabad could hamper the global campaign against terror, The Nation learnt. Official sources said Washington had been contacted by top officials from Islamabad, conveying a strong message against the attempts to...

An official who did not wish to be identified, told dna, "Army will be deployed on major highways and at sensitive points and an elaborate plan is being worked out at the headquarters level (in Delhi)." The Indian Army is set to deploy its troops for patrolling and staging flag marches in the...

Major Gen (retired) Ian Cardozo, a hero of the 1971 war that led to the creation of Bangladesh, paid tribute to BBC’s coverage of the hostilities on Monday but recalled its one mistake that benefited India in taking on numerically superior Pakistani forces. At the time, Cardozo was a major in a...

“If India and Pakistan couldn’t sort out their differences with 55 high level summits, what guarantee is there, that a 56th will break the logjam,” asks Husain Haqqani, former Pakistan ambassador to the US and author of India vs. Pakistan Why Can’t We Just Be Friends?’, cautioning against the...

The most powerful armed forces of the world, in 15 years, will be those of Russia, USA, China, India and France, a forecast by the American military-political publication ‘The National Interest’ predicted. The authors took three main factors into account: the military’s access to national...

The website of a prominent management institute in Noida was attacked by Pakistani hackers, officials said on Thursday. The website of the School of Law, Design and Innovation Academy of the Institute of Management Studies (IMS) was hacked and along with a Pakistani flag another flag resembling...

Nestled between the Betar Nala to the west and Poonch river to the south, Poonch is a historical town along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. It’s a place that occupies an important place in our military history and also one that has produced some legendary characters, including two...

With the Army raising fears that its proximity to China could make it a liability in case of a confrontation. The objection has irked the state government, and the matter could end up in a tussle between the home and defence ministries. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Act East Policy, pushing...

A special meeting was convened on Thursday night after the 26th plenary of the Nuclear Suppliers Group kicked off, to discuss urgent items. And prominent on the agenda was India’s bid for entry to the elite nuclear club. This found voice through countries like Japan, the US, the UK, France...

Two days ago, in Moscow, the foreign ministers of India, Russia, and China released a joint communique outlining areas of trilateral agreement between the three countries. As I discussed in The Diplomat, the three countries have met annually since 2002 to discuss issues of regional and global...

After Pakistan National Security Advisor Naseer Khan Janjua shared intelligence with his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval last week, India has been mulling the idea of a mechanism to regularly share counter terrorism intelligence with Pakistan. Sources say that the idea is to bridge the gap in...

Many Threads over this month were speculating the deal of F-16 and many are hailing it as it is confirmed that F-16 will be procured to Pakistan even after failed bid of Senates. New landmark in Pakistan Air Fleet. Pakistan Army has tweeted which can be taken directly pointing to India with the...

Sartaj Aziz in Washington: "We have some influence on them [the Taliban] because their leadership is in Pakistan" The Pakistani prime minister's adviser on foreign affairs has indicated in a talk at Washington's Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) that the leadership of Afghan Taliban is living...

Mr. Trump: We, the Muslims, understand your worries about the security of the #American citizen. This is a strength ‎point for you. Another strength point for you: your confession that you do not know “what is going on”. Now, that confession articulates exactly your blocker to achieve better...