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Praveen Swami

Praveen Swami is National Security Analyst with Firstpost and CNN-IBN.

Face-off at Sikkim’s Naku La Casts Light on China’s LAC Game Plan Against India

The confrontation in Naku La is a sign that the crisis in Ladakh is just the beginning of dangerous, new phase in the China-India crisis....
Praveen Swami-January 25, 2021, 19:47 IST India
Cop-out: Kashmir Police Bureaucracy Drags Feet on Its Own Request to Extradite Alleged Jihad Activist

Kashmir Police sources told News18 that one-time Pampore resident Asif Maqbool Dar, who earlier worked as a doctor in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, had moved in recent weeks to Ras al-Khaimah in the UAE, and he runs multiple social media platforms popular among secessionist audiences....
Praveen Swami-January 8, 2021, 14:01 IST India
Army Appealed to Alleged Terrorists Killed in Srinagar Encounter to Surrender, Video Shows

Families of the three men have alleged that the shootout was staged and they were kidnapped and killed in cold blood by the forces. ...
Praveen Swami-January 5, 2021, 15:37 IST India
'No One Becomes Terrorist Between Lunch & Dinner': Fog of Blood and Lies Veils Srinagar Encounter Truth

Even though the army and police’s account of what happened at Hokersar is far from implausible, little evidence has so far been released to support it — fuelling fears they might have been victims of a similar extra-judicial execution. ...
Praveen Swami-December 31, 2020, 08:37 IST India
Abandoned in Kashmir Village, Child of Lashkar’s New Military Boss Watches as New Phase of War Brews

Umar Raja Afaq Rather had been abandoned by his parents, who fled across the Line of Control to Pakistan. Nine years later, in July 2016, Umar crossed the India-Pakistan border at Wagah, armed with the papers needed to reunite with his biological parents....
Praveen Swami-December 14, 2020, 18:47 IST India
Great Gall of China: In Midst of Grim Ladakh Winter, Concern Mounts over More Savage Summer at LAC

Rather than overwhelm India in war, the PLA is seeking to lock the country into a resource-sapping confrontation, where supremacy is achieved without actual fighting....
Praveen Swami-November 27, 2020, 13:48 IST India
Behind Top PDP Politician's Arrest, Allegations of Deal-making with Terrorists to Win 2014 Elections

Sources said Waheed Parra’s arrest is the outcome of an investigation into rogue police officer Davinder Singh — held on charges of attempting to help a Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorist escape across the LoC — widening into a broader inquisition of links between political actors in Kashmir and jihadist groups....
Praveen Swami-November 26, 2020, 16:33 IST India
Fighting to Revive Kashmir Jihad, Jaish-e-Muhammad Finding Help from Old Friends in Afghanistan

The United Nations Security Council group monitoring terrorism-related sanctions in Afghanistan was told, this summer, that up to 1,000 Jaish and Lashkar fighters were fighting alongside the Taliban, “acting as advisors, trainers and specialists in improvised explosive devices”....
Praveen Swami-November 18, 2020, 08:23 IST India
Indians of the Islamic State, Held in Middle-East Prisons, Find Door to Homeland Firmly Closed

The government, like governments across the world, remains divided on the right course of action. Police officials handling counter-terrorism cases, though, have begun warning the delay could have dangerous consequences....
Praveen Swami-November 3, 2020, 15:41 IST India
Tania Parveen, the Kolkata Girl Who Wanted to Become Indian Jihad’s Wonder Woman

LeT tasked Parveen with finding recruits for its jihadist cell through WhatsApp, and later honey-trapping Army and Air Force men under a pseudo-identity. ...
Praveen Swami-September 21, 2020, 22:34 IST India
9 Suspected Jihadists Held by NIA Were Promised Arms by al-Qaeda Commander Based in Pak: Sources

The NIA investigators said they had found pipes, wires, switches, and bolts meant to be used as shrapnel in searches, along with jihadist literature, in searches targeting the homes of the nine arrested men....
Praveen Swami-September 19, 2020, 19:10 IST India
Faced with Protracted Deadlock on LAC, Army Builds up Arsenal to Fight a Long and Cold War Ahead

Faced with the prospect of a protracted stand-off between massed forces on either side of the LAC, sources said that New Delhi has authorised an emergency military acquisition programme that could run to over $1 billion....
Praveen Swami-September 17, 2020, 21:09 IST India
Faced with Prospect of 'Siachenised' LAC, Indian Army Prepares for Cold, Long Haul in Ladakh

The emergency effort to expand the Army’s stockpiles of extreme-weather tents, fibre-reinforced plastic igloos and specialised snow-boots are evidence that the Indian Army is preparing to have to maintain dozens of new high-altitude positions through the winter along the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh....
Praveen Swami-September 9, 2020, 15:05 IST India
Controlled, Not Crushed: Jaish-e-Muhammad Asks Pakistan to Lift Restrictions on Attacks in Kashmir

Pressure from Saudi Arabia, threat of sanctions from the Financial Action Task Force and a risk of war has forced Imran Khan to clampdown on Jihadist groups....
Praveen Swami-September 8, 2020, 14:54 IST India
DNA Tests Confirm Kabul Gurdwara Attacker was One-Time Kerala Resident

Blood samples from Muhsin’s mother, collected by the NIA, were matched with tissue collected from the suicide-bomber’s remains by Afghan authorities, sources in the NIA said....
Praveen Swami-August 15, 2020, 15:08 IST India

26 Jan, 2021 \| Afghanistan and Ireland in UAE
AFG	vs	IRE
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25 Jan, 2021 \| West Indies in Bangladesh
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24 Jan, 2021 \| Afghanistan and Ireland in UAE
IRE	vs	AFG
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22 Jan, 2021 \| West Indies in Bangladesh
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22 - 25 Jan, 2021 \| England in Sri Lanka
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Praveen Swami

Face-off at Sikkim’s Naku La Casts Light on China’s LAC Game Plan Against India

Cop-out: Kashmir Police Bureaucracy Drags Feet on Its Own Request to Extradite Alleged Jihad Activist

Army Appealed to Alleged Terrorists Killed in Srinagar Encounter to Surrender, Video Shows

'No One Becomes Terrorist Between Lunch & Dinner': Fog of Blood and Lies Veils Srinagar Encounter Truth

Abandoned in Kashmir Village, Child of Lashkar’s New Military Boss Watches as New Phase of War Brews

Great Gall of China: In Midst of Grim Ladakh Winter, Concern Mounts over More Savage Summer at LAC

Behind Top PDP Politician's Arrest, Allegations of Deal-making with Terrorists to Win 2014 Elections

Fighting to Revive Kashmir Jihad, Jaish-e-Muhammad Finding Help from Old Friends in Afghanistan

Indians of the Islamic State, Held in Middle-East Prisons, Find Door to Homeland Firmly Closed

Tania Parveen, the Kolkata Girl Who Wanted to Become Indian Jihad’s Wonder Woman

9 Suspected Jihadists Held by NIA Were Promised Arms by al-Qaeda Commander Based in Pak: Sources

Faced with Protracted Deadlock on LAC, Army Builds up Arsenal to Fight a Long and Cold War Ahead

Faced with Prospect of 'Siachenised' LAC, Indian Army Prepares for Cold, Long Haul in Ladakh

Controlled, Not Crushed: Jaish-e-Muhammad Asks Pakistan to Lift Restrictions on Attacks in Kashmir

DNA Tests Confirm Kabul Gurdwara Attacker was One-Time Kerala Resident

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