Praveen Swami is National Security Analyst with Firstpost and CNN-IBN.
In the weeks before his killing, Mehran Shalla had come to be relentlessly pursued by the Jammu and Kashmir Police, accused of staging a series of execution-style killings in Srinagar.
The end-of-year toll is likely to be statistically similar to the 33 civilians killed last year, or 36 in 2019—and significantly lower than the 86 killed in 2018.
Abdul Rehman, an engineering student with roots in Afghanistan’s Logar and the son of a merchant who frequently visited New Delhi.
Last week, Pakistan's NSA Moeed Yusuf claimed that Indian security forces are managing five ISIS training camps in India.
Like their predecessors, the Taliban’s commanders may soon discover warfare isn’t just a means to gain power, but an end in itself.
Experts point to a fierce power struggle that has broken out since the Taliban seized Kabul on August 14.
Even though funding was lavished on the Afghan military, there just wasn’t time for it to develop a stable institutional culture, and allow it to operate independently.
As the Taliban regime consolidates itself and becomes a regional player, we look at the four key takeaways from the situation in Afghanistan.
India’s wisest course of action might be to sit on the sidelines, and watch the match — until opportunity presents itself.
The trial comes on the back of the deaths of two exiled Pakistani dissidents — Karima Baloch and Sajid Husain Baloch — which investigators claim were suicides, but activists suspect murder.
Earlier this week, twenty-eight years after the massacre, loss has again visited Abdul Khaliq Halwai
Forensic analysis has suggested that the explosive used in the attack was RDX, a widely-used military explosive, packed into what are known as shaped charges.
Early on Sunday morning, two 1.5 kilogram, pressure-activated explosive devices were dropped inside an Indian Air Force’s base in Jammu by just such a drone — missing a hangar.
The take-away is a simple one: the new status-quo in Kashmir is a fragile one. In 2008, 2010, and again 2016, long periods of peace were torn apart by mass violence, driven by ethnic-religious issues. That risk remains, in the absence of solid political foundations.