The Spy Chronicles is a book of conversations between the former intelligence chiefs of India and Pakistan, A.S. Dulat and Asad Durrani, respectively. The discussions centre on several subjects, from Kashmir and PM Narendra Modi, to how Osama bin Laden was given up to the Americans.
According to satellite images from around 2008, the safe-house where the terrorists were trained is located in ‘Pathan Colony’, around 6 km south-east of Thatta town.
Madhuri Gupta, a veteran diplomat, has been sentenced to three years in prison for passing on sensitive information to a Pakistani man who had honey-trapped her.
Bombay 1993 was until then the ISI's most daring attack on India — an AK rifle as weapon for self-defence, an “unforgettable” meeting with Dawood and why I believe Yakub Memon deserved to hang.
As India & China seek to ease border tensions after Doklam, ThePrint revisits their less known 1967 face-off which turned bloody & killed hundreds on both sides.
Steve Coll’s 'Directorate S' is about how ISI was allowed to succeed in blocking the United States’ efforts to impose a stable, democratic order in Afghanistan.
AAP lost last year’s election in Punjab from a winning position because an impression grew that it was taking a communal view of the state, stirring old angers, and embracing radicals. This is how I had explained that dramatic tunaround.
Pakistan takes one step forward to get relief from international pressure, followed by two steps back once the pressure is off. When pressure resumes, another step forward.
The United States had trapped itself in its alliance with Pakistan. It could not mount more pressure on the nuclear-armed Pakistan and was unable to find a strategy to persuade Pakistan's generals to change their strategic calculus toward India.
In this excerpt from his book, author and journalist Steve Coll writes about how Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence has damaged Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The graduation is meant to bolster the legacy and legitimacy of Sheikh Hasina's Awami League, even as the real-world preparedness lagged behind the glossy narrative.
Indonesia delegation led by Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin visited BrahMos facility & met with top officials & undertook a detailed briefing on the missile system.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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