Modi's Baloch gambit

August 17, 2016 09:05

Three months after the government concluded that its risk-fraught intervention in the Uighur separatist movement had reaped a security harvest with China, Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided last week that wading into Balochistan from the Red Fort on Independence Day was potentially less risky, yet worth the attempt.

The government's carefully considered twin decisions to fish in the troubled separatist waters of China first and now Pakistan also mark the culmination of a two-year-long ideological struggle in Modi's inner circle between an interventionist line in neighbourhood diplomacy and the continuation of status quo. Read more

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