India-Pakistan: Brinkmanship of a new era

    2019-04-05T14:05:59+00:00March 27th, 2019|2019, Global Edition – March 2019|

    A strategic expert traces the recent India-Pakistan face-off to analyse what it means for geopolitics in South Asia. In my last column I had written that with India’s electoral season approaching, foreign policy would take a back seat, but added: “the single major exception could be in relation to terrorism, and thereby Pakistan, in the event there is another deliberately timed Pakistan-based terror attack against India”. Sadly, such a terror attack took place on February 14 in Pulwama, killing 40 [...]

      India-Pakistan: A pessimistic scenario, at least in the short term

      2019-03-11T13:34:18+00:00March 9th, 2019|2019, UK Edition – March 2019|

      Our strategic expert traces the origins of the ongoing tensions between India and Pakistan and weighs up some distant hope of improvement in relations between the South Asian neighbours. The pattern of terrorist attack in India by a group, at best, tolerated, at worst, actively supported, by the Pakistani state, followed by some degree of military conflict is depressingly familiar to followers of South Asia. Sadly, the impasse between India and Pakistan finds supporters in both countries. The pre-eminent position [...]

        Isolating Pakistan: When neither trade nor aid work

        2020-08-20T07:07:32+00:00February 22nd, 2019|India Inc News|

        The Pulwama attack in Jammu & Kashmir must only serve to harden international resolve to push Pakistan to renounce terror as an instrument of state policy, writes India Inc. Founder & CEO Manoj Ladwa. Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, aka MBS, earlier this week announced $20 billion fresh investments in Pakistan’s oil refining, mining and power generation sectors. In October last year, Riyadh had announced a $6-billion bailout for the near-bankrupt Pakistani exchequer, which included direct cash aid [...]