There are suggestions of a quiet leadership struggle within the hard right separatist camp in Kashmir that may in part account for the violent anti-government campaign which has led to nearly three dozen civilian deaths in just under two months.

The Pakistanis are worked up about the WikiLeaks disclosures that vividly portray the deep-going operational links between ISI and the Taliban since 2004, and demand that Washington repudiate the veracity of the material. The US is engaged in desperate damage control. The Indian establishment, however, does not appear too impressed with all the hullabaloo.

When he meets with Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in Islamabad on July 15, external affairs minister S.M. Krishna will be only too keenly aware that his brief is a complex one on account of the lingering domestic sense of unmet expectations from Islamabad in the 26/11 context.

J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah quietly created history last week when he became the state’s first elected leader since Independence to ask the Centre for the Army’s symbolic or “deterrent” presence in Srinagar.

An important reason Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pushed the envelop on the dialogue process with Pakistan in recent months was the relative normality visible in Jammu and Kashmir whose potential appe

There appears to be a twist to the Hafiz Saeed tale, which has so far been about India supplying the needed proof to nail his role as a prime mover in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, but Pakistan treating this as “literature”, rather than “evidence” — to quote the colourful language of Pakistan foreign secretary Salman Bashir — and refusing to put him away on that basis.

The Pakistan Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the earlier judgment of the Lahore HC to set Lashkar-e-Tayyaba founder Hafiz Saeed free from preventive detention was unlikely to come in the way of foreign secretary Nirupama Rao’s proposed June-end trip to Islamabad and external affairs minister S.M. Krishna’s trip to Pakistan in

With the ground zero of politics in Jharkhand replete with every marker of instability in view of the way the numbers stack up in the Assembly, the Congress party appears to be fighting shy of engaging in manoeuvres to either keep the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha in power or to insinuate itself into government in Ranchi.