Only a few would be persuaded that President Donald Trump is deeply informed about any moderately complex subject. Ballistic missiles is one such. In fact, such a notion becomes firm when one con- siders his expression of bewilderment when Japan did not shoot down the North Korean “Hwasong-15” missile in flight just as the Saudis…
India and Pakistan must learn that Pathankot and Peshawar were mindless acts of terror, to prevent whose recurrence, there is the need to enhance cooperation, not diminish it. Pakistan must continue to take the preventive measures in real earnest and India must try and rein in the detractors. The stakes are staggeringly high for both….
IntroductionWhen the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (or SAARC) was created in 1985 – and the consensus was that it was the product of a Bangladesh initiative – it can be said to have been a triumph of hope over experience. Till then South Asia, or the Indo-Pak Subcontinent by which the region was…
