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Syed Ata Hasnain, a retired lieutenant-general, is a former commander of the Srinagar-based 15 Corps. He is also associated with the Vivekananda International Foundation and the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies.

Army soldiers pay their last respects to four Army personnel killed in a recent militant attack during a wreath laying ceremony, in Rajouri, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Opinion

Syed Ata Hasnain | The Rajouri encounter: It's about Pakistan's...

The security forces take much more risk to achieve while the terrorists minimise their own risk to survive and thus...

25 Dec 2023 10:54 PM IST

Fire and smoke rises from buildings following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. AP/PTI

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Syed Ata Hasnain | Israel-Hamas war: Does expansion loom large?

The world cannot afford any more bloodletting of such proportions

7 Nov 2023 12:11 AM IST

Palestinian health officials reported hundreds of deaths from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. (AP/PTI)

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Syed Ata Hasnain | Israel-Hamas war might be transformative for...

Hamas has employed almost 5,000 of these rockets and missiles without much interception by Israel's famed Iron Dome

12 Oct 2023 12:28 AM IST

Several houses are damaged as the flood water makes its way in the aftermath of the Cyclone Biparjoy, in Kutch district. (PTI Photo)

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Syed Ata Hasnain | Reducing risk of disasters: Taking it to India's...

Despite the modernisation of DM which the government is following ardently, it is non-compliance of laws & norms that...

1 Sept 2023 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi being seen off by Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan as he concludes his visit to UAE, in Abu Dhabi, Saturday, July 15, 2023. (PTI Photo)

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Syed Ata Hasnain | West Asia gaining strategic significance for New...

India is a major stakeholder in West Asia through its diaspora, remittances and growing economic relations, besides the...

18 July 2023 12:10 AM IST

An independent human rights watchdog in France found that young men perceived to be Black or Arab were 20 times more likely to be stopped by the police than their peers. (Image: PTI)

Opinion

Syed Ata Hasnain | Europe at a crossroads: Why France is burning

Continued immigration has led to France having over four million immigrants in a population of 67 million

5 July 2023 12:00 AM IST

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy examines the site of a recent battle in Bucha close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Opinion

Syed Ata Hasnain | Kyiv counter-offensive: A possible last stand?

A counter-offensive always aims deep and is designed to unhinge the adversary's defenses

14 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and others pose for photographs during Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. (PTI)

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Syed Ata Hasnain | Strategic stock-taking will mark SCO FMs' Goa meet

The visit of Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is being treated with a hot and cold attitude by the...

4 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves at an event to introduce new members of the Politburo Standing Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Opinion

Syed Ata Hasnain | Global shift? China is on a geopolitical overdrive

What is for India in all this renewed Chinese geopolitical vigour.

1 April 2023 12:11 AM IST

Ukrainian soldiersrest near their position in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/LIBKOS)

Opinion

Syed Ata Hasnain | 1 yr of Ukraine war: No victor, no vanquished

Options are being discussed but except for a determination to continue the war, not much appears emerging.

24 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

Pakistans former President Gen. Pervez Musharrafs popularity dropped and the attack by the security forces on Lal Masjid conservative seminary in Islamabad in July 2007 further increased his unpopularity. (File Photo: AP)

Opinion

Syed Ata Hasnain | How Siachen obsession got better of Musharraf

The Siachen phenomenon is hardly known to the public in Indian

13 Feb 2023 2:15 AM IST

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Syed Ata Hasnain | Women officers in Army: From PCs to combat role

It is good to see gender sensitivity take a higher platform in India

26 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST