Sreemoy Talukdar

1 week ago | firstpost.com | Sreemoy Talukdar

How do you deal with a problem like Pakistan? This question has vexed Indian policymakers and the political establishment for several decades. We are none the wiser despite several wars and kinetic conflicts, the latest of which took place just a few days ago. At the heart of the problem is a revisionist state where the public stays in a state of permanent suspension of disbelief, while its all-powerful military runs a rentier economy and conjures up alternative realities at will.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Sreemoy Talukdar

1 day ago Dual Fault Lines In China’s Military: Weapons Fail, Generals Jailed – Analysis On 9 March 2022, a BrahMos missile —launched accidentally due to a technical malfunction near Ambala—crashed in Mian Channu, Khanewal district, … 4 hours ago 'Sixteen hours' that reshaped South Asia | The Express Tribune The Pakistan-China Institute (PCI), a leading Islamabad-based think tank, has released a detailed report on the 2025 Pakistan-India standoff, … 20 hours ago Four Pakistani aircraft...

2 weeks ago | firstpost.com | Sreemoy Talukdar

On Wednesday, security forces chalked up an important victory in India’s ongoing fight against Naxalism, neutralizing Nambala Keshava Rao, alias Basavaraju, the general secretary and supreme commander of the CPI (Maoist). Union home minister Amit Shah called him the “topmost leader, and the backbone of the Naxal movement” carrying 1.5 crore bounty on his head.

3 weeks ago | firstpost.com | Sreemoy Talukdar

As the fog of war clears and evidence pile up of a massive, decisive and unequivocal Indian victory over Pakistan, the debate will inevitably shift from the ‘downing’ of Rafale(s), of which there is little proof and no verification, to the proven underperformance of Chinese weapons systems. In the short yet high-intensity warfare, Chinese air defence technology appeared ineffective, unreliable and inferior.

4 weeks ago | firstpost.com | Sreemoy Talukdar

In an extraordinary counterattack on the intervening night of May 9 and 10, Indiastruck three Pakistan Air Force (PAF) bases in Murid, Rafiqui Shorkot and the Nur Khan base at Rawalpindi a logistic hub for the PAF and also theheadquarters of Pakistan army. The attacks were carried out with clinical accuracy. Footage indicates that these bases, deep inside Pakistan, were struck with air-to-surface missiles, sending shockwaves throughout Pakistan.