Indus Treaty in Abeyance: India, Pakistan, and International Law

Indus Treaty in Abeyance India, Pakistan, and International Law

Pakistan's resort to the UNSC on the Indus Waters Treaty collapses on contact with the law of treaties, the law of state responsibility, and the Charter regime on the use of force. Rahul Pawa | x: @imrahulpawa On 22 April 2025, in the Baisaran meadow above Pahalgam, terrorists separated tourists by faith and shot twenty-five … Continue reading Indus Treaty in Abeyance: India, Pakistan, and International Law

Indus Waters Treaty After Pahalgam

Indus Waters Treaty After Pahalgam

India's post-Pahalgam position on the Indus Waters Treaty is not a water dispute. It is a sovereign response to Pakistan's sustained use of cross-border terrorism while continuing to demand the full benefits of a cooperative treaty. The Treaty was premised on goodwill, peaceful conduct and reciprocal confidence. Pakistan's conduct, culminating in the Baisaran, Pahalgam terrorist … Continue reading Indus Waters Treaty After Pahalgam

Looking for Relevance?

Pakistan's 'Mediator Moment' in Iran Crisis may turn out to be more of diplomatic outreach rather than Strategic Opportunism. N. C. Bipindra Pakistan's most visible foreign policy gambits in recent years are its attempts to position as a mediator in the conflict between US, Israel and Iran. Pakistan has stepped forward to host talks, relay … Continue reading Looking for Relevance?

China’s Infatuation with India’s Arunachal Pradesh

Beijing has spent decades trying to claim a land it has never governed, never administered, and never convinced the world is its own. The infatuation tells us less about Arunachal Pradesh and more about the insecurities driving Chinese foreign policy. Rahul PAWA | X- @imrahulpawa The flight to Tokyo was supposed to be the easy … Continue reading China’s Infatuation with India’s Arunachal Pradesh

Balochistan’s Disappeared: Inside Pakistan’s Kill-and-Dump Campaign

In Pakistan's largest province, Baloch families no longer ask only whether their loved ones will come home. They ask whether they will return alive, broken, or as a body left by the roadside.Rahul PAWA | X- @imrahulpawa In Balochistan, disappearance has become more than an allegation. It has become a method of rule, a language … Continue reading Balochistan’s Disappeared: Inside Pakistan’s Kill-and-Dump Campaign

INS Aridaman: Designed, Built and Armed at Home

No foreign blueprints. No borrowed reactor. No licensed hull. India built its third nuclear-powered submarine from scratch.Rahul PAWA | X - @imrahulpawa The commissioning of INS Aridhaman on 3 April 2026 completes a threshold that India's strategic community has been working toward for the better part of three decades. With three nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines … Continue reading INS Aridaman: Designed, Built and Armed at Home

Malfeasance at large

Malfeasance at large

USCIRF worked to puncture US interests by framing its strategic ally Bharat as a country of particular concern and recommend ban on RSS, RAW. What’s the hidden agenda?   K.A.Badarinath Why doesn’t US President Donald J Trump wind up the pugnacious and toxic organization US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) that worked against American … Continue reading Malfeasance at large

Rebuttal of USCIRF India Entry and Issue Update on Alleged Religious Persecution

Centre for Integrated and Holistic Studies (CIHS) has released a comprehensive rebuttal of the USCIRF Annual Report 2026 and its accompanying Issue Update on India. The rebuttal finds that USCIRF's recommendation to designate India a Country of Particular Concern rests on methodological failures, unsourced assertions, and recommendations disconnected from the document's own findings. Most strikingly, … Continue reading Rebuttal of USCIRF India Entry and Issue Update on Alleged Religious Persecution

India’s Futuristic Defence Forces Vision for 2047

India's Defence Forces Vision 2047 signals something rarer than modernisation, a change in how the military thinks about war itself.Rahul PAWA | X- @imrahulpawa Something shifted when India released Defence Forces Vision 2047. Not the release itself. Long-range planning documents are neither rare nor automatically consequential. What shifted was the register. This is not a … Continue reading India’s Futuristic Defence Forces Vision for 2047

Race for Deploying Humanoid Soldiers Has Begun

Race for Deploying Humanoid Soldiers Has Begun

The next soldier will not bleed, will not tire, and will not hesitate. It is already being built, and the race to send it to war is underway. Rahul PAWA | X - @imrahulpawa In late January 2026, three Russian soldiers emerged from a destroyed building to surrender. There was no Ukrainian infantryman waiting for … Continue reading Race for Deploying Humanoid Soldiers Has Begun