Month: November 2025

On 10 November, 2025 at around 6:52 pm a Hyundai i20 car bomb blast killed 08 people and injured (24) others [Indian Home Minster]. The owner of the car has been detained. The blast occurred near the Red Fort, the heart of the Capital city and the place from where the Indian Prime Minister addresses the nation every year [August 15] and provides an outline of major strategic decisions and policies. This terror attack is a communication to the Indian political and military leadership.        Currently, there have been a lot of communication going on between India – Operation Sindhoor is an ongoing military operation, If provoked India will not keep restraint and will go all the way etc, and Pakistan – like a provoking statement made just prior to the Phalgham attack in April this year by Pakistan’s General (now Field Marshal) Asif Munir calling out India on the…

The in-person meeting between the US President Trump and China’s President and General Secretary Xi Jinping was not particularly interesting in its content, because much of the trade deal agreed to was negotiated in advance at Malaysia and elsewhere. In US official assessment the deal was – “a massive victory that safeguards U.S. economic strength and national security while putting American workers, farmers, and families first”.        The US has categorized this agreement as a – historical agreement – where in China has committed to the following; Halt the flow of precursors used to make fentanyl into the United States. Effectively eliminate China’s current and proposed export controls [announced on October 9, 2025] on rare earth elements and other critical minerals. End Chinese retaliation against U.S. semiconductor manufacturers and other major U.S. companies. Open China’s market to U.S. soybeans and other agricultural exports [announced since March 4, 2025]. China will…

An Assassination attempt averted:        It is reported that during his visit to the SCO Summit in China, President Putin and Prime Minister Modi held a 45 minutes long meeting inside President Putin’s Aurus limousine, a high-security luxury vehicle designed in Russia. At this meeting, it is reported that Putin warned Modi of an impending attempt on his life. To bring credibility such report, upon returning to India, Modi asked the people, “are you clapping because I went to China, or because I have come back”. By the night of August 30, the Indo-Russian intelligence cell had already warned both governments of suspicious movements in Bangladesh.  On August 31, U.S. Special Forces officer Terrence Arvelle Jackson was found dead under mysterious circumstances in luxury hotel in Dhaka (Bangladesh). His sudden appearance in Dhaka, just kilometers from India's border, coincided with heightened chatter picked up by intelligence networks about a possible…

This write up will analyze India’s strategic assessment, foreign policy, and strategic decision with regard to various developments of recent times – Afghanistan, Pakistan, US-China relations, United Nations, Tariff Wars, India-US relations, and India-Russia-China relations. Afghanistan:        After a period of quarter century, India-Afghanistan relations are now witnessing a reproachment. Experts in India believe this is a major shift in India’s strategic thinking and foreign policy. While India was always interested in keeping close ties with Afghanistan, it had major difference of opinion with the Taliban’s. The hijacking of IC 814 - bound from Kathmandu to Delhi, was hijacked as soon as it entered Indian airspace on December 24, 1999 – created major embarrassment and humiliation for India’s security agencies and diplomats who had to release three Pakistani terrorists [Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, Masood Azhar, and Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar] from India jails for securing the release of the 191 souls…