Combat at 16,000 feet: How Kargil reshaped the India Pakistan military balance

In February 1999, the Pakistan Army launched Operation Badr, with soldiers from its Special Service Group, Northern Light Infantry and Sind Regiment along with heavily armed Afghan mercenaries occupying the posts More...

Kargil and the Manufacturing of History –III

[contextly_sidebar id=”Mgin1FqHgad1s782C1hodCMbJoB9O7QM”] In Pakistan in 1999, the “war-like” conflict in Kargil was a powerfully relevant ‘real-time’ example of my scholarly research, as I was More...

Kargil And The Manufacturing Of History-II

[contextly_sidebar id=”jovmbKmY9GY76GXY4apfRvvEstVV4WVj”] The diplomacy bus was sparkling new as I rode from Delhi to Lahore in June 1999, our high profile vehicle had a military escort all the way from More...

Kargil And The Manufacturing Of History-I

In the spring of 1999, when the “war-like” situation erupted in Kashmir in the Kargil district, I was doing research regarding history textbooks in Bangladesh. A few weeks before I left Bangladesh, a direct More...

Raza Rumi – When Silence is Murder

In Pakistan, there are liberals and there are fake liberals. An average Indian does not recognize this distinction. The true liberals uphold a sense of ethics and morality in speech and writings and work for the More...