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Colonel ANIL A ATHALE (retd)
‘Under National Security Advisor Ajit Kumar Doval and now Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, India began to actively work on Pakistani internal faultlines with a possibility of the break-up of Pakistan as the only solution,’ observes Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
India-Pakistan relations have seen so many false dawns that most analysts had come to a conclusion that the roller coaster nature of these relations will never change.
But this time around after the agreement to observe the 2003 ceasefire on the LoC, there seems glimmer of hope.
There are several reasons for this.
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Rajnath Singh, Kazakhstan Defence Minister Review full Range Of Bilateral Defence Ties
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on April 9 met his Kazakhstan counterpart Lieutenant General Nurlan Yermekbayev in New Delhi and discussed bilateral ties.
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on April 9 met his Kazakhstan counterpart Lieutenant General Nurlan Yermekbayev in New Delhi. While taking to Twitter, Singh informed that during the meeting, they both reviewed the full range of bilateral defence ties and exchanged views to further strengthen defence cooperation, including through training, defence exercises and capacity building. The two ministers also agreed that sides must look at the possibility of defence industrial collaboration of mutual interest.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has decided to reorient itself for future challenges across all threat domains and prepare a roadmap for effective utilisation of assets and future inductions, officials said. The force is also looking for innovative and low cost solutions for enhancing training effectiveness as well as adopting a scalable contingency response model. The decision was taken during Indian Air Force Commanders Conference 2021 that concluded on Friday. During the Conference Commanders, the IAF said that the contours of the operational philosophy and organisational aspects of Air Defence and Joint Command Structures were also discussed. The IAF Commanders Conference 2021, themed Reorienting for the Future concluded at Air Headquarters on late Friday.