COMMENTARIES
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Dateline Islamabad
Pakistan's Hurt Locker: What Next?
Salma Malik · 18 Feb, 2015 · #4837 · Commentary · Column
A year ago, the morning of 7 January 2014 started as an average routine day for the children of Ibrahimzai village in Hangu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. However, few minutes later, 14-year-old Aitzaz Hasan, prevented a suicide bombing attack on the scho...
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South Asian Dialectic
Resuming the Indo-Pak Dialogue: Evolving a New Focus
PR Chari · 18 Feb, 2015 · #4836 · Commentary · Column
Foreign Secretary Jaishankar is scheduled to visit Pakistan for resuming the interrupted Indo-Pak dialogue, which has got the talking heads in New Delhi into a tizzy. Why on earth did the Prime Minister reverse course after taking the firm posit...
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Himalayan Frontier
Nepal: Political Rivalries Stymieing Constitution-making
Pramod Jaiswal · 13 Feb, 2015 · #4835 · Commentary · Column
After the ruling alliance of the Nepali Congress (NC) and the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) wanted to draft the constitution with two-thirds majority, the opposition of Maoists and Madhesi parties boycotted all the ...
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Regional Economy
India and the APEC
Amita Batra · 13 Feb, 2015 · #4834 · Commentary · Column
The foreign ministers of Russia, China and India at the end of their deliberations in Beijing last week issued a comprehensive joint communiqué that included a recommendation for India’s inclusion in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperat...
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Air Power and Future Battlefields: India's Needs
Gurmeet Kanwal · 12 Feb, 2015 · #4833 · Commentary
As the 10th edition of Aero-India gets underway at Bengaluru (18-22 February 2015), attention will be focused on big-ticket deals like the long-pending multi-billion dollar acquisition of the MMRCA by the Indian Air Force (IAF). Discussion will ...
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IPCS Discussion
West Asia, Iran Nuclear Deal, and Islamic State: Review of IPCS Forecasts
Report · 13 Feb, 2015 · #4832 · Commentary
On 9 February 2015, the IPCS, in collaboration with the India International Centre, reviewed and released three papers published as part of the Institute’s Forecast 2015 Series. The papers covered issues on West Asia (by Amb Ranjit Gupta),...
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IPCS Discussion
China, East Asia and the Indian Ocean Region: Review of IPCS Forecasts
Report · 11 Feb, 2015 · #4831 · Commentary
On 4 February, 2015, the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS), in collaboration with the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi, and the India International Centre, conducted a review of the second set of IPCS Forecast 2...
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IPCS Discussion
Pakistan in 2015: Review of IPCS Forecast
Report · 11 Feb, 2015 · #4830 · Commentary
The IPCS, as part of its 2015 Forecast Series, published three projections titled ‘Pakistan in 2015’ (authored by Sushant Sareen, Senior Fellow, VIF; Salma Malik, QAU, Pakistan; and Dr D Suba Chandran, Director, IPCS) addressing spec...
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IPCS Discussion
Southeast Asia and Myanmar: Review of IPCS Forecasts
Report · 11 Feb, 2015 · #4829 · Commentary
The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) successfully reviewed and released two papers from its Forecast Series; on Southeast Asia in 2015 by Prof Shankari Sundararaman and on Myanmar in 2015 by Aparupa Bhattacherjee. The papers were r...
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The Strategist
Swabbing the Bleakness of Subcontinental Nuclear Instability
Vijay Shankar · 10 Feb, 2015 · #4828 · Commentary · Column
Nuclear Stability: Where does it Begin?
After the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, it dawned upon President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev how catastrophically close to nuclear war they had blundered due to a misshapen military-led nuclea...
