Tag: Pakistan government

I was Given 72 hours to Leave Pakistan: A High Commissioner’s Story

August 2019 brought one of the sharpest disruptions in India-Pakistan relations as India revoked Article 370, which had granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir. The move rattled Islamabad, sparking hurried diplomacy and an atmosphere thick with speculation. Here, Ajay Bisaria, then India’s High Commissioner to Pakistan, recounts the emotional weight and professional turbulence of […]

Review: “Anger Management” by Ajay Bisaria – Former High Commissioner of India to Pakistan

The enduring hostility between India and Pakistan, initiated by the partition in 1947 followed by traumatic violence, and marked by four conventional wars, the bifurcation of Pakistan, proxy sub conventional wars in Kashmir and Punjab, nuclear tests, acts of terrorism, and surgical strikes, has become a seemingly permanent fixture in South Asian geopolitics. The relationship […]

Dictator Next Door

Asim Munir’s power grab in Pakistan makes South Asia a more dangerous neighbourhood. The Pak military is no longer a state within a state. It is the state Yesterday’s attack on the Peshawar headquarters of Pakistan’s Federal Constabulary that killed three security personnel exemplifies the chaos engulfing that country. But the Pakistani leadership appears keen […]

Book Chapter: A Decade of Steady Economic Decay

Authors – Ajay Bisaria, Abhishek Kumar Abstract This piece analyses Pakistan’s persistent economic challenges, particularly in the decade  from 2013 to 2024. It links the country’s financial crises with structural weaknesses,  primarily military dominance, that has led to political instability, flawed economic choices  and an addiction to IMF bailouts. The economic crisis has aggravated from […]

Excerpt: The Great India Game

Narendra Singh Sarila was an aide-de-camp (ADC) to Governor General Mountbatten before he joined the 1948 batch of India’s foreign service and went on to serve for thirty-seven years as an Indian diplomat. In his book on the ‘untold story’ of India’s Partition, Sarila emphasized a thesis that has since gathered wider support based on […]

Sindoor’s New Red Lines Are Drawn

When LeT terrorists struck in Kashmir on 22 April, Pakistan had effectively jumped on the first rung of a familiar conflict escalation ladder. It did so with implausible deniability of its role.  But this time was different. The two countries climbed perilously higher into conflict than they had done ever before in this century. Between […]

CSC: In Our Immediate Neighbourhood: What’s Simmering?

Navin Berry: Last few months, we’ve had quite a few startling revelations, so to say. We find that South Asia; we thought we were the dominant power within our South Asian region. Now we begin to see that China is also in South Asia. So, is that true? How the South Asian scene has changed? […]

India’s Post-Conflict Diplomacy: Reclaiming the Global Narrative on Terrorism

The Pahalgam terrorist attack of April 2025 triggered the articulation of a new security doctrine by India—a ‘new normal’ for countering cross-border terrorism at its source, defining a revised national security and foreign policy vision. India’s robust military response—Operation Sindoor—was calibrated deterrence, designed to send a clear message of resolve, primarily to Pakistan but also […]

Will India’s ‘Integrated Deterrence’ Stem Cross-Border Terror?

As more information about the battleground realities trickles in, security analysts are busy finding templates to explain India’s calibrated counter-terror action launched in response to the brutal cross-border terrorist attack in April 2025. Operation Sindoor has already reignited debates on the theory of deterrence. Did the deterrence of 2019 fade? Does deterrence really work? Can […]