Tensions have been rising for weeks as jihadists from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir breached the LoC. Last month, two Indian soldiers were killed in Akhnoor by an explosive likely planted by infiltrators.
Failure by nation-states to implement policies that include and empower vulnerable young people lies at the heart of why organisations like the Islamic State are succeeding.
Ever since J&K lost its special status, the Awami Action Committee and the Ittihadul Muslimeen had escaped proscription, with New Delhi hoping its leaders would steer followers toward democratic politics.
The anti-India insurgency in Manipur threw its weight behind reviving pre-Hindu cultural traditions and faith among the Meitei, excluding groups like the Kuki and Naga.
The Pakistani state cannot and will not win unless it abandons the principles of colonial counter-insurgency, which have coated its institutional thinking like toxic sludge.
A fifth of the voters in Germany’s just-concluded elections voted for the neo-Nazi party Alternative für Deutschland, which wants to take the country out of the European Union.
In recent years, Balochistan has seen new democratic movements. While Pakistan Army may not welcome another insurgency, this is preferable to mass challenges to its authority.
A third of US Presidents between 1776 to 1974 demonstrated symptoms of clinically significant depression, bipolar disorder and alcohol abuse while they were in office.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
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