Ashok K. Behuria

Manohar Parrikar IDSA scholars, Dr. Uttam Sinha’s chapter ‘Rebalancing Foreign Policy and Non-Traditional Security Issues’ and Dr. Ashok Behuria’ chapter ‘Domestic Drivers in India's Neighbourhood Policy’ have been published in the Volume ‘India's Foreign Policy: Surviving in a Turbulent World’, edited by Arvind Gupta and Anil Wadhwa, Sage Publication, 2020.

• Published: 13 August, 2020

Senior Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Ashok Behuria’s article on Kulbhushan Jadhav Case, titled ‘The Kulbhushan Jadhav Case and Pakistani Charade’ has been published by All India Radio (AIR) World Service, an External Services Division of AIR, on July 24, 2020.

Pakistan recently organised consular access to Kulbhushan Jadhav for the second time after India fielded twelve requests for the same. This access was as much of a farce as the previous one in September 2019, writes Dr. Behuria.

Read Complete Article [+]

• Published: 24 July, 2020

Senior Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr. Ashok Behuria's article on Karachi Stock Exchange attack, tited, 'Imran’s Woes: Rhetorics Not Working', has been published by All India Radio (AIR) World Service, an external services division of AIR, on July 04, 2020.

As if a scripted response was ready, Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan, did not lose the opportunity to blame India for the attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi by Baloch separatists on June 29, 2020, which led to the death of about 13 persons including the four militants, writes Dr. Behuria.

Read Complete Article [+]

• Published: 4 July, 2020

Senior Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA. Dr. Ashok Behuria’s commentary on India’s stand on Gilgit-Baltistan, titled ‘India Asserts PAK Top Court Has No Locus Standi On Gilgit-Baltistan’ has been published by the All India Radio (AIR) World Service, an External Services Division of AIR, on May 08, 2020.

The popular demands from Gilgit-Baltistan is something that Pakistan has all along ignored. People there need education, jobs, health services and a better life, like their brethren in the Indian UT of Jammu & Kashmir. India needs to stay alert and evolve ways to thwart Pakistani machinations in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), writes Dr. Behuria.

Read Complete Article [+]

• Published: 8 May, 2020

Senior Fellow, IDSA, Dr. Ashok K. Behuria’s commentary on the political scenario in Pakistan, titled ‘Non-Issues Keep Pakistan Busy’ has been published by All India Radio (AIR) World Service, an external services division of AIR, on November 23, 2019.

At a time when inflation is running high and the prices of onions and tomatoes are sky-high; leading to widespread popular disenchantment, such chronic political turbulence does not augur well either for the Imran government or democracy in Pakistan in the long run, writes Dr. Behuria

Read Complete Article [+]

• Published: 23 November, 2019

Senior Fellow, IDSA, Dr. Ashok Behuria’s article on Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, titled ‘Imran’s Multiplying Woes’ has been published by All India Radio (AIR) World Service, an external services division of AIR, on October 14, 2019.
In Imran’s dwindling popularity, the Pak opposition is smelling revival of its political fortunes. Both Bilawal and Nawaz Sharif are quietly endorsing Fazalur Rahman’s march to further unsettle Imran Khan and test the strength of his ties with the military, writes Dr. Behuria.

Read More

• Published: 14 October, 2019

Senior Fellow, IDSA, Dr Ashok Behuria’s article on radicalization in South Asia, titled ‘South Asia Faces the Threat of Radicalisation’ was published by the All India Radio (AIR) World Service, an external services division of AIR, on April 27, 2019.

Commenting on the attacks on Sri Lankan churches Dr Behuria writes that as the South Asian states are fiddling with terror as a strategic instrument; these elements are having a free run and getting emboldened to pursue their nefarious agenda. It requires eternal vigilance and prompt action by state agencies to avert disasters that the region witnessed on the Easter Sunday.

Read Complete Article [+]

• Published: 27 April, 2019

Senior Fellow, IDSA, Dr Ashok Behuria’s article on Pakistan’s perspective of the Indian elections, titled ‘Between alarm and hope Indian elections through pak lens’ was published in The Pioneer on April 14, 2019.

Elections in India are never followed with as much interest in Pakistan as is the case today, with both vernacular and English media in Pakistan joining the campaigns with their own interpretations of the ongoing electoral festival in the neighbourhood, writes Dr Behuria.

Read Complete Article [+]

• Published: 14 April, 2019

Senior Fellow, IDSA, Dr Ashok Behuria’s article on India’s air strikes on Pakistan, titled ‘Operation Balakot And After: Will Pakistan Act Against Terror?’ was published by the All India Radio (AIR) World Service, an External Services Division of AIR on March 05, 2019.
India’s “operation Balakot” was designed to convey a strong message to Pakistan sponsored terrorism in Kashmir. The message was perhaps the sternest so far from the Indian side. It was ably done even under the threat of upsetting the nuclear deterrence-stability temporarily, writes Dr Behuria.

Read Complete Article [PDF]

• Published: 5 March, 2019

It is not easy to turn somebody’s personal archive, even if it is well kept, into a book − that too a biography − without falling in love with the person, his times, the ideological cross-currents he swam with or against, and the historical significance of the character. Such efforts are really commendable when the person of the archives leaves an indelible mark as an ‘ideological beacon and moral compass’ to a leader of consequence, who steered a nation through one of the most tumultuous periods of its history.

• Published: March 2019
• Strategic Analysis