"In the 1950s, the Indian Government issued a special joint India-Pakistan #Passport that allowed people to visit their families in West & East #Pakistan. My grandparents were not #Partition refugees,but had opted for this passport, as my grandfather had business interests..[1/3]

..in #Karachi (now in Pakistan) & #Dhaka (now in #Bangladesh). In Nov. 1964, my grandmother was issued her own India-Pakistan Passport." This story has been generously shared by @/ammarhamid89 on Instagram. [2/3]

The India-Pakistan Passport was a special passport for the two countries which was issued in October 1952. This passport was held along with the general passport of each country. Eventually, the India-Pakistan Passport & Visa Scheme was cancelled in 1967.[3/3] #PartitionMuseum

⏰The 2025 Annual EISS Conference kicks off next week! 📋Check out the final programme and get ready for engaging discussions on the most pressing topics in Security Studies! eiss-europa.com/2025.html 🗓️26–27 June, Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας University of Macedonia indico.eiss-europa.com/event/21/timet…

🇨🇳/🇮🇳 #AccessAsia - #China & #India take very different positions with the ongoing conflict in the #MiddleEast. Nicolas Blarel Shanthie Mariet D'Souza join Delano D'Souza for a look at what’s behind the posturing from Beijing & New Delhi 👇

Glad to be on a panel for an interesting conversation on "Israel-Iran war: How are Asian heavyweights reacting to the hostilities? @Nicoblar and host Delano D'Souza #India #China #iran #Israel #russia #Pakistan #usa #descalation #Diplomacy #SCO #UN FRANCE 24 English Mantraya Institute for Strategic Studies

📢 On June 6, #EISS Founding Director Hugo Meijer gave a lecture at the Collège de France (Collège de France) titled “The Origins of War and Peace in the Human Species”, based on his forthcoming book to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2026! 🎥 youtu.be/UWW9aMu9mzI?si…

📣 The #EISS Annual Conference kicks off today at 9h30! 🌟 Check out the full programme here: drive.google.com/file/d/1_1eK_I… #EISSConference #EISS2025 #securitystudies

🛑 Happening at #EISS2025 right now! Roundtable ‘Nuclear Coercion’ with Michal Onderco, Kristin Ven Bruusgaard, Eliza Gheorghe, Lydia Wachs, Sanne Verschuren & Lauren Sukin Full programme: drive.google.com/file/d/1_1eK_I… #EISS #conference #security #academia Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας University of Macedonia

🛑 Happening at #EISS2025 right now! Loukas Tsoukalis is delivering the keynote speech ‘Will Putin and Trump finally force Europe to behave as a political adult?’ 📋 Full programme: drive.google.com/file/d/1_1eK_I… #conference #security #academia

🏆 Congratulations to Zakir Rzazade, winner of the European Security Studies Best Paper Prize for PhD students and early-career scholars! 🎉 The prize is awarded in partnership with J Strategic Studies 👏

my short & sweet reviews of four superb new books in summer issue of GlobalAsia Eva Dou on Huawei Joel Wuthnow & Phil Saunders on the PLA Amitav Acharya & Manjeet S. Pardesi on Indian Ocean IR (vs. Roman Mediterranean IR) & Jerome Cohen 孔傑榮(柯恩) on Himself!

John Delury GlobalAsia Eva Dou Joel Wuthnow Amitav Acharya Jerome Cohen 孔傑榮(柯恩) “The inference drawn is that a global order no longer dominated by US hegemony might not be as bad as many fear.”

Happy to see this out at JCWS after writing the 1st draft…in 2016. This is on India’s UNEF experience (1956–1967) shaped its approach to Peacekeeping and Peacemaking & part of a great SI edited by the incredible Swapna Nayudu & the late Andreas Hilger direct.mit.edu/jcws/article/2…

🇵🇸 Au moment où plusieurs pays annoncent vouloir reconnaître l’État de Palestine en septembre, ce Briefing revient sur la position indienne 🇮🇳, entre soutien quasi total à la Palestine depuis 1948 et alignement pro-Israël sous Modi en 2014.👇 ifri.org/fr/briefings/l…

Pour l’ Institut français des relations internationales j’ai redigé une note sur l’evolution de la position indienne sur le confit israélo-palestinien : le soutien historique à la cause palestinienne s’est graduellement dilué suite au rapprochement entre l’Inde & Israel apres 1992, et encore plus sous Modi depuis 2014

For Institut français des relations internationales, I wrote a pc on the evolution of India’s position on the Israeli-Palestine conflict: the historical support for the Palestinian cause has gradually waned following the rapprochement between India & Israel after 1992, and even more so under Modi since 2014

Dutch summer vacation patterns (for cars), via Architecture Hub on FB

US India relations have plunged to their lowest point in at least a decade. In working to push India away from Russia, Trump may run up against a tall obstacle: “the deep-seated Indian belief that you need to have friendships that go beyond the West.” wapo.st/4msQm6z

Rethinking The Middle-East | VOL 1 ISSUE 3: Tradition and Transformation : India’s Evolving West Asia Playbook By Nicolas Blarel “New Delhi has moved from a strategy of proactive involvement in regional disputes during the Nehru years, to aligning with some specific partners in the