Random Thoughts - Pattabhi Sitaraman

The Prime Minister of the neighbouring country Pakistan was embroiled in a corruption case in the Panama leaks and the join investigation team instituted by the authorities in the country found him guilty and accordingly the Supreme Court of the country had disqualified him to hold the post of PM and be an elected member of the Pakistan parliament.  This has paved the way for turmoil in the political scenario in the country which has some fall outs on India also.  It was reported that Nawaz Sahrif's brother Shabaz Sahrif is expected to take over once he is elected to the parliament. Until then there is likely an interim prime minister.  How this is going to affect the already strained relations between the neighbours and how the same is going to have its impact on the standoff in Dok La between China and India?   The Punjab province has been under the control of the Sharifs for a long time and their influence has spread to almost all spheres of activities in the ...

In the Trination area of Dok La between China, India and Bhutan, PLA had been trying to get a foot hold and claim it as its own.  Beijing had not been keeping quite in the past year or so.  First there was a revival of the CPEC which connects Tibet to Gwadar port in Baluchistan area of Pakistan that runs through the Aksai Chin area of J&K which is occupied by China.  Pakistan has been too eager and generous to gift away the area to China in the bargain to get more military hardware from them.  If recent reports are to be believed, there is a build-up of heavy artillery and manpower in the autonomous region of Tibet in the recent past and is continuing.  There is a war games in the higher regions on the Indian side. There was an exercise Malabar involving the navies of India, US and Japan which was frowned upon by China as it feared that it was aimed against it, though it was the 20 th edition of the same.  All these and the media reports worry a comm...