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Neighborhood News Digest – 02 June 2023

Afghanistan
Australia’s most decorated war veteran unlawfully killed prisoners in Afghanistan, judge says – The Hindu
Australia’s most decorated living war veteran unlawfully killed prisoners and committed other war cri....

June 02, 2023 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , India , Pakistan , Nepal , Afghanistan , Bhutan , Pakistan Army , Imran Khan , Media , IMF , MOU , Drugs , LNG , Electricity , India-Sri Lanka , UNDP , PM Prachanda , Bank Rate , Australian vet , India aid , FM Muttaqi , Cash Crop , Internet , agreements , Pakistan Punjab , Bangladesh-Qatar , Per Capita , Smart Bangladesh , eFaas , drug regulation , Hunger Hotspots
Pakistan Army: The Nature of Change!
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

At his maiden press conference as the new Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Maj-Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, on 23 April 2023 said that the “…Pakistan Army was a “national army” and that all politicians and part....

May 19, 2023 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Pakistan Army , Imran Khan , ISPR , PTI , Corps Commanders
Neighbourhood News Digest – 10 May 2023

Afghanistan
Barred from schools & universities, female students start own businesses in Afghanistan - ToI
Due to the Taliban-imposed ban on access to education for girls and women students in Afghanistan, some of them have lau....

May 10, 2023 VIF Neighbourhood News Digest , India , Pakistan , Nepal , Protests , ASEAN , Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Bhutan , Supreme Court , Pakistan Army , Saudi Arabia , Taliban , Imran Khan , Women , Pakistan Economy , Canada , Islamic law , Northeast , imports , India-Myanmar , Bangladesh-India , Chief Justice , Rawalpindi , Credit , Homosexuality , India apples , Bhutanese Refugee Scam , Internet Access , Maldives-Serbia , Broadcast , Sittwe Port , Cyclone
Bangladesh War: Report from Ground Zero, MANASH GHOSH, Niyogi Books Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, INR-695, ISBN No- 978-93-91125-37-0, 2021, Pages- 220
Dhritiman Mukherjee

Manash Ghosh’s Bangladesh War: Report From Ground Zero offers a gripping narrative of the events that occurred during the liberation war of Bangladesh or Muktijuddho in 1971. The book written in lucid language is one of its kinds when it com....

April 13, 2022 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Pakistan Army , Book Reviews , East Bengal , Bangladesh War , 1970
Exit of Mian Sahib: Nothing Changes for India
Sanjiv Khanna

The Supreme Court of Pakistan has disqualified the Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif on account of concealment of assets in his nomination papers for the 2013 General Elections. The case against Mian Sahib and his family members, began following the r....

August 02, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Panama Leaks , Sharif family , Pakistan Army
Pakistan’s War against India is not a Proxy War; it is War through Asymmetric Means
Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

The Pakistan Army and the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) — known as the ‘deep state’ — have been waging a war against India through asymmetric means as part of their strategy of ‘bleeding India through a thousand cut....

December 12, 2016 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Pakistan , Pakistan Army , Proxy War , Indo-China
Hatred and Subterfuge : Pakistan's Proxy War on India
Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Through my years as a senior commander in the Indian Army there was an annual feature which never escaped my attention. The yearly war game of my formation would invariably begin with a presentation by a new team each time on the psych....

November 25, 2016 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Pakistan , US , Indian Army , Pakistan Army , Proxy War , mindset , hatred , Ata Hasnain , Lashkar e Toiba , Jaish e Mohammad
India’s Counter-proxy War Strategy: The New Rules of the Game
Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

Surgical Strikes across the LoC On the night of September 28, 2016, several teams of the Special Forces of the Indian army crossed the Line of Control (LoC) through gaps in the forward defences of the Pakistan army. The highly-trained comma....

October 05, 2016 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Pakistan Army , LoC , War Strategy , Counter-proxy War
Time to hit and hurt the Pakistan army!
Brig Gurmeet Kanwal

'For every act of terrorism on Indian territory for which there is credible evidence pointing to the Pakistan army and the ISI's involvement, carefully calibrated military strikes must be launched against the Pakistan army,' says Brigadier Gurmeet....

September 18, 2016 Jammu & Kashmir , National Security and Strategic Studies , Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Pakistan Army , ISI , Military Strikes , Lashkar-e-Tayiba
Discussion on Christine Fair’s Book

American scholar and academic Dr C Christine Fair presented her latest book “Fighting to the end: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War” before a distinguished gathering of scholars, soldiers and diplomats at the Vivekananda International Foundation o....

July 18, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Book Discussions , Pakistan Army , US policy , Christine Fair
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