COMMENTARIES
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Indus-tan
IPCS Forecast: Pakistan in 2015
Sushant Sareen · 19 Jan, 2015 · #4807 · Commentary · Column
This edition of the IPCS Column, 'Indus-tan', is the precis of a larger document titled 'Pakistan in 2015', published under the IPCS Forecast 2015 series.
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Dateline Islamabad
IPCS Forecast: Pakistan in 2015
Salma Malik · 17 Jan, 2015 · #4806 · Commentary · Column
This edition of the IPCS Column, 'Dateline Islamabad', is the precis of a larger document titled 'Pakistan in 2015', published under the IPCS Forecast 2015 series.
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Himalayan Frontier
IPCS Forecast: Nepal in 2015
Pramod Jaiswal · 14 Jan, 2015 · #4805 · Commentary · Column
This edition of the IPCS Column, 'Himalayan Frontier', is a precis of the larger document of the same name, that is part of the IPCS's 'Forecast 2015' series.
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Sri Lanka after Rajapaksa: A New Chapter with India?
V Suryanarayan · 14 Jan, 2015 · #4804 · Commentary
The unprecedented democratic upsurge in Sri Lanka, which brought to an end the despotic regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa, has been hailed as the harbinger of a new chapter in Sri Lanka’s turbulent history. While the minority votes tilted the ba...
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Regional Economy
IPCS Forecast: South Asian Regional Integration
Amita Batra · 12 Jan, 2015 · #4803 · Commentary · Column
In May 2014, when India made the unprecedented gesture of inviting the heads of all SAARC member-countries for the oath taking ceremony of its new Prime Minister, hopes were raised that a new beginning for regional cooperation in South Asia was ...
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The Strategist
The Af-Pak Entity: Seduction to Armageddon?
Vijay Shankar · 12 Jan, 2015 · #4802 · Commentary · Column
Armageddon is the mythical site of gathering of armies for battle that will end all. Its geographical location is shrouded in biblical lore and considerable controversy exists of its mercatorial coordinates, but its implications of the eventual ...
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Jammu & Kashmir State Elections
J&K Election Verdict: For Integration, Not Assimilation
Ashok Bhan · 08 Jan, 2015 · #4801 · Commentary
A credible democratic exercise has just concluded in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). Media is agog with rumours on government formation based more on arithmetic than any analysis on how the outcome could be best utilised to strengthen the peace pro...
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Democratic Invitation to a Soft Coup
Pakistan: The Military Courts
D Suba Chandran · 08 Jan, 2015 · #4800 · Commentary
Of all the coups, overt and covert since 1947, the military in Pakistan should be smiling at the invitation by the Parliament to set up military courts. As a phenomenon and institution, the military courts are not new in the democratic history o...
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India-Pakistan Relations: A New Low
Shujaat Bukhari · 07 Jan, 2015 · #4799 · Commentary
Relations between India and Pakistan are again at a new low as hostilities across the International Border (IB) and the Line of Control (LOC) in Jammu and Kashmir have intensified. At least seven people including civilians have been killed in th...
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India’s Nuclear Doctrine: Reviewing NFU and Massive Retaliation
Gurmeet Kanwal · 07 Jan, 2015 · #4798 · Commentary
The BJP’s election manifesto had promised to review India’s nuclear doctrine to “make it relevant to challenges of current times…” Regardless of election-time rhetoric, it is necessary that important government pol...
