The government’s decision to request Pakistan for overflight permission for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to travel to Bishkek for the Shanghai Cooperation Council (SCO) summit on June 13-14, is...

The presence of erstwhile leaders of the Northern Alliance in Islamabad is a stark reflection of current geopolitical realities

On 12 June 1975 – forty-five years ago – Justice Sinha gave a judgement that changed India’s history.

India’s Quad membership is desirable but risky

Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace by AS Dulat and Asad Durrani will draw Narendra Modi's detractors in our politically charged time. But will students of India-Pakistan relations or...

Vivek Katju writes: ‘Strategic patience’ cannot be an alibi for inaction

The Government’s strategy to quell West Asia’s outrage must include the need to foster an understanding of other faiths

India’s articulation of some areas of the current domestic agenda in the United Nations General Assembly raises several deeply troubling questions

Some verities of statecraft are eternal

Regional diplomacy is marked by the NSA’s seal

Vivek Katju TILAK DEVASHER is one of India’s foremost authorities on Pakistan. His three previous works have shown its immense problems, but equally immense promise if it only had an enlightened...

Having an audit system to review cases such as Fr. Stan Swamy’s will also help reassure international liberal opinion

Vivek Katju writes: Delhi’s outreach in Kabul is a step in the right direction. Security imperatives dictate that India cannot keep aloof from Afghanistan

Their economic and strategic cooperation will be mutually beneficial as the two states confront western sanctions.

Vivek Katju writes: The point for consideration is if the talks are a part of the quiet and out-of-sight contacts between India and Pakistan which resulted in the February ceasefire along the Line of...

Pakistan tried its best to deny India the right of consular access but ultimately had to bow to the ICJ decision.

Under the current politically tumultuous situation in Afghanistan, Modi has been astute in not inviting Prez Ghani.

The British have always taken the Pakistani side on J&K, either explicitly or implicitly. Why is it so generous on issues that are close to them?

At Moscow peace talks, Afghan leaders who fought each other and the Taliban found themselves on the same side

Three months after a short spell of armed hostilities between Britain and Afghanistan in May 1919, the former ambiguously relinquished control over the latter’s foreign relations in the Treaty of...

This writer recently visited Istanbul after a gap of about five years. While the trip was very short a change in the landscape of the…

India must continue to engage with all, including critics, while pushing its own narrative

Syed Akbaruddin, India’s PermanentRepresentative to the United Nations in New York, demitted office on April 30on retirement from the Indian Foreign Service (IFS). In his…

New Delhi’s Afghan policy needs changes and must include openly talking to the Taliban and all other political groups

The ‘Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation Between the Government of India and the Government of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics’ was signed fifty years ago on August 9, 1971. It is now...

China’s move to cement a long-term partnership with Iran shows a disdain for Trump’s Iran policy. 

It was the Pulwama terrorist attack of February 2019 which changed Modi’s position finally.

Indian diplomats will have to carefully monitor President Trump’s response to Pakistan’s overtures to intervene.

Indians can view the country’s journey since Independence with great satisfaction. These 75 years have witnessed fundamental social transformation, remarkable economic advance and the maintenance and...

Without cooperative ties with India, the Pakistan people may not have human security or a successful economy

There is a strategic paralysis in Delhi, even as other strategic challenges are growing. All other powers are talking to the Taliban and securing their interests

India-US ties will move positively forward but there will be imponderables ahead, principally arising out of US strategies towards China. Also, because of the lectures that a Biden administration may...

New Delhi’s refusal to open up to the Taliban has led to it being sidelined in multilateral discussions.

With the emphasis on pre-emptive action, India has signalled that it will no longer accept loss of lives

India is asserting that it can be a bridge between the Global South and the advanced world.

It should focus on securing interests and openly engage with Taliban; this is possible without damaging current New Delhi-Kabul ties

Keeping politics aside it would be useful to examine some aspects to arrive at a degree of clarity on Bharat and India

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar visited Cyprus on December 29-31 last year. His visit further cemented India’s close ties with this Mediterranean island nation since…

The real 'economic’ problem is the amount that the Pakistani Defence insists on being allocated to them.

The Indian Express speaks to Vivek Katju, former Indian diplomat who has dealt with Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Ministry of External Affairs, on United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres...

It can be said that Munir has taken full advantage of the May 9 events to consolidate his position in the Army, flush out officers who may not be fully committed to him, damage Imran Khan’s popular...

The reason for the U.S.’s failure is no different from that of the Soviets; India too can hardly impact the ground situation

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emphasised the virtues of self-reliance for India at least twice since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. He did so…

The latest manifestation of Pakistan’s policies and actions are the targeted killings. The State must act decisively to protect the people of the region

Pakistan has an advantage; the US is managing a strategic defeat. India must be more proactive

We have reached a pass where our basic civilisational principle of openness is being eroded

The Delhi G20 summit has further brought home to many Pakistanis that its India policy is counterproductive

Diplomats are busy clarifying domestic decisions. This expends capital and diverts attention from India’s goals

Prime Minister Narendra Modi participatedin a virtual Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) contact group summit on May 4. It wasconvened by the current NAM chairperson Azerbaijan’s President…

Author also focuses on perpetual intrusion of two countries’ respective approaches towards, and ties with, Pakistan and China in their own bilateral interactions

Realism demands that India cooperate with the Afghan government, but also open a line with the Taliban

The second in-person Quad summit was held in Tokyo on May 24. Prime Minister Narendra Modi joined US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio…

Assignments need imagination and hard work, not champagne and caviar, as Ambassador Nazareth shows

Afghanistan is an important test for India’s diplomacy and it should pursue an independent policy.

A response to Partha Chatterjee.

Henry Kissinger, the eminence grise of American diplomacy and international relations studies, is now a hundred years old. He is still mentally and physically active…

Pakistan is spreading propaganda. But counter it through effective action and a return to constitutionalism

The rise of China and its assertion, indeed aggressive moves since President Xi Jinping assumed the top slot in the country’s power structure in 2013,…

THE 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is a stark reminder of the uncertainties of individual and collective human endeavours, of unintended consequences, of enduring features and of change and...

PM Modi will participate in the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence on March 26 in Dhaka as the guest of honour. This is only fitting because of the role played by India under the leaders...

This was the first time that an Indian Minister Of External Affairs was visiting Austria in twenty-seven years.

India’s Afghan policy needs to move into higher gear, accept realities and deal openly with the Taliban

The panel must address concerns on quality of questions, nature of the exam, and what it is seeking in a candidate

History bears witness that there are times when a political dispensation seems to be stable and enduring, the situation changes; either gradually or swiftly, and…

Veteran diplomat Vivek Katju explains why this military coup has happened in Myanmar   and what it could lead to.

It will be a milestone in the retreat of secular nationalism that we are seeing across the world

Ex-Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs Russia’s ‘special military operation’, which began on February 24, in Ukraine is an invasion. For PM Modi, this invasion constitutes an enormous diplomatic...

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar addressed the Australia India Leadership Dialogue on September 6. He spoke warmly about the current nature of the India-Australia relationship which has now...

Whatever may be India’s domestic controversies it is simply unacceptable that a foreign minister of another country should be allowed to spew such venom against an elected prime minister

US military predicts regeneration of Al Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan within two years of troop withdrawal.

🔴 Vivek Katju writes: Those who head state organs and institutions must abide by conventions and traditions and zealously guard them.

Judges must ponder and pursue the old norms that earned them respect and public confidence

As the talks begin, the Taliban is in a position of strength. If the Kabul-based Afghan political class had succeeded in consolidating the republic and had kept the Taliban confined to a small area,...

Fifty years since the creation of Bangladesh, Pakistan’s ideology — based solely on Islam — remains rigid. This is why its bilateral engagement with India has failed

As a good international citizen, the country has accepted the tribunal’s award; it must ensure that Italy fully honours it

The 15th India-European Union (EU) summit was held in virtual mode on July 15. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi represented India, EU Council President Charles…

It would be prudent for India to pursue its traditional policy of building contacts with all segments of Afghan society and polity and of undertaking a liberal visa policy while naturally taking...

Having decided to be totally defensive against Pakistan’s calibrated low-intensity war and not taking it to its territory, India has had no option but to absorb losses.

Vivek Katju IN their introduction, the authors note: “The first half of the book focuses on America in Afghanistan — its entry and exit — while the second half deals with the rising influence of...

विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन (डब्ल्यूएचओ) की 73वीं विश्व स्वास्थ्य महासभा आज से शुरू हो रही है। कोविड-19 महामारी के कारण इसे वर्चुअल यानी वीडियो कॉन्फ्रेंसिंग द्वारा आयोजित किया जा रहा है। महासभा में...

Shri Vivek Katju, Former Secretary (West) MEA and Ambassador to Afghanistan and Myanmar in Samvad with Mayank Singh, discusses the reasons behind the economi...

India’s assertion criticising the OIC Resolution on Islamophobia was valid, but could have made a reference to Indian Muslims

It appears that the government has decided that it will disregard Western liberal opinion and media because it is convinced that they cannot harm India’s growing ties with the West

On April 23, the general secretary of the Indian Revenue Service association forwarded a paper entitled ‘FORCE’ (fiscal options & response to Covid-19 epidemic) to the chairman and members of the...

Pakistan’s army is on board with the ceasefire. But unless it revises its position on terror and Kashmir, talks will hit a barrier