COMMENTARIES
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Jammu & Kashmir State Elections
J&K: The Fractured Mandate
Shujaat Bukhari · 23 Dec, 2014 · #4787 · Commentary
A political commentator has rightly advised that no exit poll should be conducted in respect of Jammu and Kashmir. This has come true today as nothing can be predicted about the mood of the people, particularly in Kashmir valley. After intense a...
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Dateline Islamabad
India-Pakistan Relations in 2015: Through a Looking Glass
Salma Malik · 23 Dec, 2014 · #4786 · Commentary · Column
The year is about to end, and keeping true to tradition, it is time for reflection and recollection. However bad the situation may become, the end of year holds an optimism that the coming year would prove better than the previous. 2014 began on...
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India-Bangladesh: Land Boundary Agreement and Enclave Populations
Saumitra Mohan · 23 Dec, 2014 · #4785 · Commentary
With the longstanding land boundary agreement (LBA) between India and Bangladesh on the verge of being clinched, the exchange or transfer of population residing in the enclaves (‘chhintmahals’) to be exchanged between the two countries...
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Regional Economy
South Asia: Rupee Regionalisation and Intra-regional Trade Enhancement
Amita Batra · 23 Dec, 2014 · #4784 · Commentary · Column
The year 2014 is likely to close with the Indian rupee among the best performing major emerging market currencies against the US dollar. The fall in rupee value over the year has been marginal even while some of the other emerging market currenc...
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Pakistan
And Now, They Are Coming For Our Children
D Suba Chandran · 18 Dec, 2014 · #4783 · Commentary
Can the Taliban become any further barbaric than this? Targeting a school, and killing more than 130 children?
Children are not only our soul and the most precious of our existence, but also our future – individual and collective. Chi...
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BOOK REVIEW: 'Sino-India and Sino-South Korean Relations'
India-South Korea: Non-Partners in Countering China
Skand Tayal · 17 Dec, 2014 · #4782 · Commentary
The steady rise of China is a reality. Its growing economic, military and consequent strategic strengths are subjects of research, analysis and debate and also of concern, particularly for China’s neighbours.
There is already a c...
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Indo-Pacific
Indonesia's Pacific Identity: What Jakarta Must Do in West Papua
Shankari Sundararaman · 17 Dec, 2014 · #4781 · Commentary · Column
The Indo-Pacific is a term gaining wider acceptance as a geopolitical reality. If any country has the advantage of being at the centre of this emerging identity, it is Indonesia. This vast archipelagic region strides the two oceans – ...
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Himalayan Frontier
Constitution-making: Will Nepal Miss its Second Deadline?
Pramod Jaiswal · 15 Dec, 2014 · #4780 · Commentary · Column
With just a few weeks left to meet the 22 January, 2015 deadline for the promulgation of the constitution, the President of Nepal, Ram Baran Yadav, is busy asking the lawmakers to fulfill their commitments.
Contentious Issues
The c...
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Indian Ocean: Why India Seeks Demilitarisation
Vijay Sakhuja · 15 Dec, 2014 · #4779 · Commentary
In his remarks at the 2014 Galle Dialogue in Sri Lanka, Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval alluded to the 1971 UN General Assembly Resolution 2832 (XXVI) which declared the Indian Ocean a ‘Zone of Peace’ (ZoP) and called on ...
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Spotlight West Asia
Rise of the Islamic State: Implications for the Arab World
Ranjit Gupta · 15 Dec, 2014 · #4778 · Commentary · Column
Though it is going to take a long time to defeat the Islamic State (IS), and it must be defeated, some silver linings of the very dark cloud the IS represents are beginning to be hazily visible over the horizon.
Since the proclamation of the ...
