India-Pakistan ceasefire violations

UN rejects Pakistan’s bid to internationalise Kashmir issue

October 14, 2014October 14, 2014 - by India Writes Network

Pakistan’s insidious attempt to internationalise the Kashmir issue got a fitting rebuff from the UN which has made it clear that India and Pakistan should resolve all differences through dialogue …

Border tensions: How Pakistan army calls the shots

October 13, 2014October 13, 2014 - by India Writes Network

In the summer of 2013, having led his party to electoral victory in Pakistan, Mian Nawaz Sharif pledged to normalise ties with India as his country’s Prime Minister. A little …

Pakistan’s Dangerous Game of Brinkmanship

October 12, 2014October 14, 2014 - by India Writes Network

Insecure Pakistan in the backdrop of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan is faced with the twin dilemma of international marginalization as part of fast receding regional relevance and political and economic instability. These fears are heightened by India’s rapidly developing economy, political stability and fast paced modernization of its armed forces. For Pakistani fed on the belief, as Christian Fair puts it ‘accepting the status quo with India is a defeat’, such a scenario is an anathema that it is loathe to accept. This ideological perspective remains the driver that is forcing the Pakistani army in taking calculated military risks as a manifestation of its continued struggle which it must continue and persevere. According to Fair this behaviour of Pakistan is a result of it being fundamentally a dissatisfied state which seeks to increase its prestige through spread of its ideology and religion in pursuit of its revisionist policies.