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Project Agnipath: worth a try!

Shantanu Mukherjee Amid the ongoing violence triggered by the announcement of Agnipath Scheme for recruitment of youth in the Armed Forces, the government has increased the upper age limit to 23 from the initial 21, in an apparent bid to give more impetus to the project. Resorting to violence, starting with the State of Bihar, and subsequently spreading to Haryana, UP and other parts of the Hindi belt belies the rationale ...

Misguided dot busters in Bangladesh

Shantanu Mukharji A few days ago, a shocking incident happened in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. A Hindu woman wearing a Bindi on her forehead was questioned by a policeman insinuating her for wearing it during the Ramzan. Not only did he question her on her choice of wearing a Bindi the communal-minded cop also tried to run over the woman teacher under his motorbike. Kudos to the courageous woman who not only counter questio...

Pakistan, Putin, and war-time protocol

Shantanu Mukharji It would ordinarily be very unusual for a head of state or government to visit a foreign country when the latter is engaged in a full-scale war with a neighbour. And yet, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan recently made a two-day Moscow visit when Russia had just embarked on a ‘military operation.’ During such military conflicts, a Prime Minister-level figure does not venture out of his country...

Humiliation for Pakistan!

Shantanu Mukharji Pakistan has perhaps not faced such humiliation in recent times as serious questions are being raised over the Ambassador-designate to the US Masood Khan, who awaits clearance from the US State Department for his posting. Serious allegations are raised against Khanand things only got hotter last week as Scott Perry, a member of Congress representing 10th district Pennsylvania, wrote a letter to President Joe Bi...

Pak Judiciary questions Military's real estate aspirations

Shantanu Mukharji In a dramatic and bold move on November 30, the Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed pulled up the Army for carrying out commercial activities on the government land and describing this illegal. The CJP’s indictment came during the hearing of a petition about allegations of the abuse of cantonment land by the military. He asked the propriety of the Army’s discretion in running cinema and wedding h...

Is China behind Manipur deadly ambush?

Shantanu Mukharji In a shocking incident, the Commanding Officer (CO) of the 46 Assam Rifles, Col. Viplav Tripathi, his wife, and nine-year-old son were killed in Manipur bordering Myanmar on the morning of November 13. The dastardly ambush is suspected to be the handiwork of the Manipur Naga People’s Front (MNPF), the People’sLiberation Army (PLA), and the People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), a...

Durga Puja under attack in Bangladesh

Shantanu Mukharji In a most shameful and brazen act displaying a high degree of religious intolerance, several groups of Islamic radicals vandalized several Durga idols at various puja pandals on the significant and most solemn Durgashtami in different districts of Bangladesh on October 13. Worst was Hajigunj in Cumilla district where more than sixty persons were injured and at least three killed in mob violence. Police proved u...

Upbeat mood amongst Islamic radicals in South East Asia

Shantanu Mukharji In the aftermath of the Taliban triumph in Afghanistan two months ago, one thing perhaps is glaringly missing in the narrative is the subterranean simmerings in some South East Asian countries. It’s imperative to take stock of these underground happenings specially in the Islamic majority provinces of Southern Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, etc. as these merit a close watch to get a holist...

Sheikh Hasina - iron lady of Bangladesh

Shantanu Mukharji Bangladesh Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina completed 74 years on by September 28 this year. In the last 50 years of Bangladesh’s independence, she has been the Prime Minister for over 17 years. Her political journey has not been easy or uninterrupted; it was full of hurdles, threats to her life, and innumerable challenges and obstacles. The Iron Lady had been firm on her saddle with no distraction or provocation to un...

Dealing with fresh Taliban threats

Shantanu Mukharji Within one month of Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and a retreat by the US and allies after two decades, the country has had a 33-member all male government that looks least promising to work for the welfare of the people. It’s a hurriedly formed cabinet with a good input from Pakistan’s ISI. This was evident as the ISI chief Lt Gen Faiz Hameed had air dashed to Kabul for this. He held di...

Is it an Ostrich like attitude by Bangladesh?

Shantanu Mukharji Asaduzzdman Khan, a minister in Bangladesh in a surprising and perhaps bold statement categorically ruled out the presence of Taliban in Bangladesh and thereafter and that he perceives no threat to his country’s security from the smaller terror groups. The Police Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Shafiqul Islam in another shocking statement, articulated on the same day, at an inaugural function&n...

Will India and the Taliban be allies against ISIS?

Shantanu Mukharji A pinpointed CIA warning notwithstanding about a suicide attack at the Kabul airport, the ISIS (Khorasan) carried out deadly fidayeen attacks on August 26 killing nearly 200 people including US marines. According to security experts, such a lethal assault in Afghanistan is perhaps the first in the last two decades. This devastating explosion jolted not only the US administration but also...

Taliban resurgence and security implications

Shantanu Mukharji So many fast developments are taking place around Afghanistan that it’s impossible to keep pace. By the time this piece is being finalised, more interesting developments must have taken place. Either way, preliminary analysis in the immediate aftermath of the Taliban occupying Kabul seems imperative. First and foremost, the ‘might’ of the superpower, the USA, is shockingly exposed. The w...

Attacks on minorities spoil Dhaka's economic success story

Atrocities on minorities in Bangladesh Shantanu Mukharji There has been no abatement in the cases of highhandedness against the Hindu or Buddhist minorities in Bangladesh. As it is, these minuscule communities are steadily dwindling due to a section of aggressive, intolerant, and radicalized majority Islamic activists who continue their violent activities targeting the minority lot by vandalizing and desecrating their places...

Resurgence of Taliban and Pakistan

Shantanu Mukharji Pakistan continues to be the villain as the Taliban is surging and making territorial gains making tens of thousands of Afghan families flee towards Kabul for safety. Meanwhile, Kunduz, home to 2,70,000 people and a strategic town has become vulnerable. Why is Pakistan a villain? People in the know of the developments behind the scene say that the Taliban is playing a proxy for Pakistan in&n...

Pakistan’s overdoing on CPEC

Shantanu Mukharji With the passage of time, Pakistan under the premiership of Imran Khan, who completes years as the Prime Minister this month, is increasingly getting obsessed with the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. Perhaps coincidentally, ever since the QUAD grouping has gained momentum, CPEC has featured more prominently than before in the Pakistani and Chinese media, both in print and electronic. ...

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