'It is unrealistic to expect that security dilemmas and strategic distrust to disappear or even diminish any time soon,' says Rup Narayan Das.
'You can see that in Chinese behaviour in the Yellow Sea, you can see it in their behaviour towards Taiwan, you can see it in their behaviour towards Hong Kong, you can see it on our border as well.'
'With good allies in places like Pakistan, we are getting information that is more detailed and more specific than we had before about terrorists' plans,' the US National Security Adviser said.
Among other things, the US Deputy Secretary of State will discuss the deployment of Indian troops in Iraq
The Pakistani team investigating the Pathankot terror attack will complete its probe this week, a top official said on Monday, days after three suspects in the high-profile case were remanded to police custody.
Ren Guoqiang, a spokesperson of the Chinese defence ministry, in a statement said, "Chinese armed forces have also shown a high level of restraint with an eye to the general bilateral relations and the regional peace and stability."
Pentagon said he has withdrawn citing disruption in his financial interests
IPS officers Arvind Kumar and Samant Kumar Goel to head IB and RAW respectively.
India must re-negotiate its nuclear deal with the US in order to save its strategic interests, former national security adviser Brajesh Mishra said Tuesday night.
'We just didn't know that the threat was a domestic one, an internal one,' Secretary of State Colin Powell said.
Giving details of a joint declaration signed by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao, External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha said the two sides agreed to maintain peace and tranquility on the LAC.
Hasan Rohani, who is also the leader of the Supreme National Council, will meet Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee tomorrow.
She also met American Ambassador to Pakistan Nancy Powell, who was in New Delhi on a stopover to her vacation.
He, however, admitted that North Korea is a 'hard target and that correctly assessing its intentions is nearly impossible'.
The Indian National Security Adviser also conveyed India's concern to Condoleeza Rice on Pakistan's lack of effort to stop infiltration across the Line of Control.
'There is room for cautious optimism following the Harris anointment that America will return this year to more normal politics after the aberration of the Trump presidency,' points out Shreekant Sambrani.
Trump disclosed that he was to meet the Afghan President and senior Taliban leaders on Sunday at his Camp David retreat.
The US president lauded the announcement on Twitter, writing "Great progress being made but sanctions will remain until an agreement is reached. Meeting being planned!"
Article 370 'was not a special status. It was a special discrimination. With its abrogation we have brought Kashmiris on par with Indians', he said.
there is a small minority of extremists in the Muslim world who indeed hate and will always hate America, said national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.
The former US secretary of state, who is here to attend the two-day conference on 'Peace dividend: Progress for India and South Asia', said she has had an "abiding interest" in Kashmir for her entire life.
The envoy will have an 'informal confidential exchange' of views with National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra.
Repeated violation of ceasefire and frequent infiltration attempts by terrorists will be in top agenda of the meeting between heads of border guards of India and Pakistan to be held in New Delhi next week.
National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra will meet Senior Vice Minister of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Dai Bingguo in New Delhi on Thursday.
Pakistan's army chief General Raheel Sharif will visit Afghanistan tomorrow to meet the new leaders there and discuss security issues, including the thorny one of Pakistani Taliban militants hiding there.
"We want to see it just stop. We are very much involved in that (process)," Trump told reporters at the Oval Office.
The issue of the Pakistan-North Korea nuclear programme figured during the talks visiting US Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley held with President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad on Wednesday.\n\n
'Both of us believe America has to stand up for the democratic process and for the oppressed people,' Rice said.
"We can't have this high-horse spirit -- that you can speak to the high commissioner of Pakistan, but not to the home minister of India."
"We all know these problems. We will sit together and work to solve them," he said.
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