Decorated and senior DRDO scientist, Pradeep Kurulkar, arrested on espionage charges

Pradeep M Kurulkar. (Photo via DRDO website)Pune/New Delhi: The Maharashtra anti-terror squad arrested senior Defence Research and Development Organization scientist Pradeep M Kurulkar, on Thursday, for allegedly passing highly sensitive defence-rela...

In Punjab, healing touch needed to defang separatists

Amritpal Singh, a separatist and leader of “Waris Punjab De”. (Photo: Twitter)What happened in Punjab’s Ajnala on February 23 was a total capitulation of state police before radicals who stormed the city’s police station, forc...

Punjab turbulence impacts national security, collective effort required to maintain peace

Amritpal Singh (C) with his supporters. (Photo: Twitter)Last week, national newspaper and channel headlines screamed “Radicals storm Punjab police station, force cops to release accused.” Such news signals turbulence in Punjab, jeopardizi...

Understanding Pakistan’s ‘deep state’ and its threat to world

The dictionaries describe the “deep state” as a large group of people comprising typically members of government agencies and the military with long-term agendas and goals through secret manipulation or control of government policy throug...

The fallacy of false flag operations

At a time when Pakistan desperately needs focussed leadership to ameliorate its internal problems, the Imran Khan led PTI government is frittering away its mandate in diverting public attention from core issues by empty rhetoric for which there are v...