Amjed Jaaved

Middlemen or defense agents were banned for years after the multi-million dollar scandal in the 1980s involving alleged kickbacks paid to politicians and officials in the purchase of Bofors guns when Congress was in power. India keeps learning the wrong lessons from defense scams.

The annexation of the princely state shows that India was bent upon annexing all the 565 princely states by hook or crook. At the time of the British withdrawal, the princely states covered 40 percent of the area of pre-independence India and constituted 23 percent of its population.

Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), 1958 is an Act of the Indian Parliament that empowers the nation's Army to conduct search, arrest, or shoot to kill people without a warrant. AFSPA has been called a 'draconian' law by human rights activists.

Apart from occupying Jammu and Kashmir in 1947, India went through an act of aggression transgressed upon the Muslim-ruled princely state of Junagadh and occupied it by force. This was done soon after the partition of the Indo-Pak sub-continent.

For any institution to perform well, be it state or non-state, a key factor is the quality of its human resource. Investments in civil service training are thus critical to help build the state’s capacity to deliver.

Though the Taliban has said that it would respect the rights of women, it also asserted that women will have to wear the hijab in public. To explain the issue better, Amjed Jaaved, a freelance writer talks about the new dress code for women in Afghanistan.

The situation in Afghanistan could potentially set off a domino effect in the Indian subcontinent. In this regard, Amjed Jaaved talks about India's confused view of the actual situation in Afghanistan

Amjed Jaaved explains the changes in India's policies on Afghanistan with changing scenarios. He further highlights India's strategic partnership with the former Afghan government what course of action will India take now that the Taliban is ruling in Afghanistan.