Our International Security Fellow, Sameer Patil was interviewed by WION News on PM Modi travelling for the SCO Summit. Watch the interview here

Sameer Patil, Fellow, National Security, Ethnic Conflict, and Terrorism Studies, Gateway House was interviewed by TRT World on the arrest of Hafeez Saeed in Pakistan

Sameer Patil, Fellow, National Security, Ethnic Conflict, and Terrorism Studies, Gateway House was interviewed by Radio Sputnik discussing prospects for counter-terror cooperation between Russia and India.

Sameer Patil, Fellow, National Security, Ethnic Conflict, and Terrorism Studies, Gateway House was interviewed and quoted in the Hindi newspaper Rajasthan Patrika, regarding the recent terror attack in Nice, France.

Sameer Patil, Fellow, National Security, Ethnic Conflict and Terrorism Studies, Gateway House appeared on Channel News Asia to comment on US-India co-operation in submarine tracking in the Indian Ocean.

Sameer Patil, Fellow, National Security, Ethnic Conflict and Terrorism, Gateway House, was quoted, from his press statement on the terror attacks on Lahore on 27 March, 2016 by La Vie.

During the last decade, cyber threats have steadily expanded in the Indo-Pacific in two distinct dimensions: cyberattacks by state and non-state actors, and cybercriminal syndicates. As a digitized society, India has offered its expertise and technologies to like-minded countries in the region. It must now expand its role by developing cyber norms, capacity-building and technical exchanges.

China's 2022 defence budget reflects the seriousness of the Communist Party aims to fully modernise the People’s Liberation Army by 2027. Given the on-going border competition, it is crucial for India too, to optimise budgetary resources, intensify restructuring and enhance indigenous defence production, thereby improve power projection capability.

The 2022-23 Indian budget has made a provision to encourage private sector participation and military collaborations in drone technology and manufacture. This will boost indigenous production, limit imports, and develop India's drone capabilities and counter-measures.

Islamabad recently lifted a ban on the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan, a violent Islamist group in Pakistan, and released its leader from jail. This is worrisome, with serious implications for India and counterterrorism efforts as a whole, for the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan has emboldened the Pakistani Army to activate its proxies like the Tehreek-e-Labbaik, to advance its domestic political ambitions and openly support extremist organisations.