Amidst the currents of an increasingly interconnected global era, the emergence of multifaceted security challenges has accentuated the necessity for intricate and refined border control strategies. Responding to this imperative, nations are compelled to fashion and enact sophisticated border control measures. India’s intricate geopolitical landscape amplifies the gravity of astute border security strategies. With borders […]
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Border Control Strategies: Safeguarding Societies in Modern Times
In the contemporary era, as societies continue to evolve amidst a myriad of interconnected global dynamics, a detailed tapestry of security challenges has unfurled, compelling the imperative deployment of intricate and refined border control strategies. These challenges, borne from an interplay of multifaceted elements, encompass the spectres of cross-border terrorism, the expansive reach of transnational […]
Illegal migration of the Rohingya from the Eastern Borders of India
The Rohingya Muslims are a stateless population who has faced brutal persecution, discrimination, and violent suppression in Myanmar and also considered the most persecuted minority in the world. They are an ethnic minority, fleeing vicious violence and armed attacks in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. The Rohingya Crisis thus includes large scale movement and migration […]
Terror Outfits in Kashmir: A Comprehensive Analysis of Origin, Objectives, and Impact
The region of Kashmir has had a problem of terrorist organisations and extremism in the past and continues to be a hotspot for violence. Pakistani terror financing and the dispute over Kashmir has severed relations between India and Pakistan since independence and is still a point of contention between the two countries. Among the terror outfits operating […]
India and Pakistan Cross-border Terrorism: An Intensive Assessment of the Uri and the Pulwama Attacks
This paper comprehensively analyses the cross-border terrorism between India and Pakistan, focusing upon the Kashmir area, conducting detailed analysis of the Uri attack of 2016 and the Pulwama attack of 2019. It reiterates the facts of the conflict, detailing the eventst at the hands of terrorist organisations housed in Pakistan occupied Kashmir, namely the Jaish-e-Mohammed. […]
India should explore new options in Afghanistan
The participation of India’s external affairs minister, S. Jaishankar, in the opening
the ceremony of the crucial intra-Afghan talks through video link has come with this
realization that only a miracle can prevent the Afghan Taliban from being
integrated into Afghan governing structures following the imminent withdrawal of
American troops from Afghanistan…..
Proactively guarding the borders
The preoccupation of the Nation with happenings in Eastern Ladakh has caused the strategic community to lose sight of one significant incident development on the Indo Pakistan Border. The shooting down of an armed Drone by troops of Border Security Force deployed at Pansar BOP in Kathua of Jammu Sector in the wee hours of […]
Locking horns at the border Smugglers and security agencies face-off on the India-Bangladesh borders over illegal cattle trade
On July 6, the Border Security Force (BSF) informed about the surge in cattle smuggling to Bangladesh due to the forthcoming Eid-ul Azha or the Qurbani Eid on July 31. The press release elaborated on the various techniques adopted by the smugglers for transporting the cattle. It also detailed the various cruelties inflicted by smugglers on the animals and warned that the consumption of such meat might be injurious to human health. Further, it flagged concerns about unemployed poor youths being lured into this network for meagre amounts of money. These youth face all the risk while kingpins of the racket earn billions of rupees while sitting in their safe havens.
Vortex and dilemma of Line of Control (LoC) and Line of Actual Control (LAC)
LoC and LAC are different boundaries but what joins them is their disputed nature and China-Pakistan nexus. The government must be prepared for two front war to defend India’s interests on both LOC and LAC
Territorial disputes exist all over the world because of undefined or improperly defined frontiers.
The ‘new normal’: border security is national security
American President Donald Trump’s speech in a roundtable at Yuma Border Patrol Station on 22 June in Arizona is important from the border security point of view. It must be noted that the Trump administration has been proactive for quite some time in pumping in vast resources in securing America’s southern border with Mexico. During […]
