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Canary Trap was launched by me as a personal blog in 2008. Since then it has evolved into a platform for exclusive, well-researched, and objective information relating to corruption, human rights, intelligence, terrorism, and politico-security matters.
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Remembering a crisis as Pak sinks into another
Posted on December 25, 2011 | No CommentsPresident Bill Clinton’s five day visit to India in 2000 followed by a five-hour stopover in Islamabad convinced New Delhi that the world order had changed. Relationships were to be shaped by the new post cold war realities, not old loyalties. -
Remembering Vajpayee at Manmohan’s moment in Mohali
Posted on April 2, 2011 | No CommentsManmohan Singh must take a leaf from the Atal Behari Vajpayee book. Remember how he was stung at Kargil by Pervez Musharraf after his bus journey to Lahore. But he persisted. -
Why did Obama and Cameron visit Asia?
Posted on November 13, 2010 | No CommentsWhile the American president declared that India was no longer emerging, rather it had emerged, Cameron asserted that there wasn't an issue in the world that didn't beg China's opinion and participation. The two men also called for both the Asian giants to play a more constructive role in the development and growth of Africa. "It's a huge market too; come now, let us not compete. Rather, we should explore it together," they pleaded. Alright, they didn't say that exactly. But it did sound more or less like that. -
Text of PM-Obama Joint Statement
Posted on November 8, 2010 | No CommentsThe two leaders agreed to deepen existing regular strategic consultations on developments in East Asia, and decided to expand and intensify their strategic consultations to cover regional and global issues of mutual interest, including Central and West Asia. -
Can India become a superpower?
Posted on January 24, 2010 | 2 CommentsAmong the numerous viewpoints regarding India’s potential to make it to the big league, one of the most important opinions held by many analysts is that India has even failed to decisively counter the challenge of terrorism directed towards it from its neighbour, which is one-eighth its size. Experts opine that the defeat and humiliation at the hands of the Chinese in 1962 has been largely overlooked in the planning of future strategies. According to them, there is a lot of hype about India’s emergence as a great power. But as we take credit for limited successes against a small adversary, there is little or no public knowledge of a well laid out doctrine regarding future engagement with a superior power like China. -
D-Company a threat to US interests in South Asia
Posted on January 10, 2010 | 1 CommentA US Congressional Report has contented that the Dawood Ibrahim gang's reported cooperation with terrorist organisations like al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) presents a threat to the US interests in South Asia. The report, International Terrorism and Transnational Crime: Security Threats, U.S. Policy, and Considerations for Congress, prepared by the Congressional Research Service for the US Congress highlights the growing convergence between criminal groups and transnational terrorist across the globe. -
India’s melting and fermenting borders and strategic ocean boundaries
Posted on October 9, 2009 | No CommentsStrategic thinkers, who do not subscribe to Chinese lobby, have started drawing a picture that depicts China’s strategic efforts to “encircle” India from all possible sides. Besides building modern roads along Indo-Tibet borders, new Chinese Air Force formations have been stationed at such locations from where India can be easily targeted. Nuclear capable missile bases have been set up in Tibet region for the first time. However, the media and the people need not panic. Indian policy makers are alive of the situation and they are using all possible measures to contain China on the unresolved border issue.
