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Manish Tewari is a lawyer and a former Union minister. The views expressed are personal. Twitter handle @manishtewari
    Even more alarming is the human rights situation in Afghanistan with extrajudicial killings becoming the norm rather than the exception. (Representational Image/ AP)Opinion
    Manish Tewari | Four months on, Taliban’s inner contradictions show

    The ignominious exit of the US and the flight of President Ashraf Ghani still remains an enigma wrapped in a riddle and...

    19 Dec 2021 2:49 AM IST

    Police officer pays tribute to the martyrs at the Police Martyrs Memorial to mark the 13th anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks, in Mumbai, Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. (PTI)Opinion
    Manish Tewari | Why 26/11 required a kinetic response

    It, however, is a serious matter of discussion as to how Pakistan perceived the policy of strategic restraint

    5 Dec 2021 1:16 AM IST

    Both General Yahya Khan and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), did not want a federal government to be headed by Sheikh Mujibur Rehman of the predominantly East Pakistan-based Awami League. (Twitter)Opinion
    Manish Tewari | November 21st, 1971

    On March 25, 1971, the West Pakistan Army launched Operation Searchlight massacring

    21 Nov 2021 2:17 AM IST

    It is in this context Prime Minister Modis visit to the dominant seat of spiritual Anglo-Saxonism, the Vatican, and Indias participation in the nascent Western Quad need to be analyzed. (AFP)Opinion
    Manish Tewari | An alliance of civilisations: Can it give India...

    In some nations there were regime changes while others descended into the morass of civil war from which they have still...

    7 Nov 2021 2:40 AM IST

    The Indo-China border (AFP)Opinion
    Manish Tewari | After China-Bhutan deal, India requires fresh eyes

    Doklam plateau. Both the Chumbi valley and the Siliguri Corridor in West Bengal are key tactical chokepoints

    24 Oct 2021 2:57 AM IST

    US President Joe Biden participates is a virtual press conference on national security with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison in the East Room of the White House. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Manish Tewari | AUKUS is the Asian Nato; should India revisit NAM?

    The moot point remains, why did the US and, by extension, the UK, undercut their Nato partner France in this manner?

    10 Oct 2021 8:45 AM IST

    Taliban fighter stand guards in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Manish Tewari | Why the US capitulated to Taliban in Afghanistan

    Why did the United States after investing humungous amounts of blood and treasure in Afghanistan cut and run in this...

    26 Sept 2021 2:43 AM IST

    Supreme Court of India (PTI)Opinion
    Manish Tewari | Social media lynch mobs subverting course of justice

    Till the time the highest court has not spoken the above dictum remains the gold standard of both criminal and civil law

    12 Sept 2021 2:58 AM IST

    Such is the strategic importance attached to rare earths that President Xi Jinping has made it a habit to flex Chinas Trade Muscle by visiting to Rare Earths Hub, mining sites and plants frequently. (Twitter)Opinion
    Manish Tewari | The rare earth metal race: How India lost it to China

    China currently controls nearly 90 per cent of the world’s REE mining and refinement and forms the bedrock of its...

    29 Aug 2021 1:39 AM IST

    As India looks ahead to the 75 years of its existence as a democratic republic the one thing the people of our great nation must internalise is that eternal vigil is the price of liberty. Representational Image. (PTI)Opinion
    Manish Tewari | As India is 74, pledge to perpetuate Constitution

    The transient nature of Constitutions and republics is not the norm but an exception

    15 Aug 2021 3:18 AM IST

    Since Indias military reform process will be equally intricate, protracted, and even complicated with competing and conflicting demands, claims, issues, and even turf battles that would have to be reconciled, the legislature needs to play a far more pro-active role. Representational Image. (AFP)Opinion
    Manish Tewari | Does India need theatre commands?

    The combatant command President selects needs to have served in at least one joint responsibility role in a senior...

    1 Aug 2021 1:02 AM IST

    Deccan default cover imageOpinion
    No free lunch in diplomacy: India’s lesson in Afghanistan

    It perhaps may be instructive for Indian strategic elites to acknowledge the American trajectory of leaving allies in...

    18 July 2021 1:33 AM IST

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