COMMENTARIES
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Iran-Pakistan: Can Rouhani Resolve the Tensions?
Majid Izadpanahi · 24 Nov, 2014 · #4757 · Commentary
Iran and Pakistan have been facing issues on the border relating to terrorism and drug trafficking for some time now. This has raised tensions between Tehran and Islamabad, resulting in clashes. The recent clash in October resulted in casualties...
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China’s Endgame in Afghanistan
Teshu Singh · 24 Nov, 2014 · #4756 · Commentary
The US troops are expected to exit from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 but according to a recently signed Bilateral Security Agreement between Afghanistan and the US, the troops will remain until ‘end of 2024 and beyond’. Many Wester...
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Understanding the Attraction of Salafi and Wahhabi Movements
Saneya Arif · 24 Nov, 2014 · #4755 · Commentary
This year, 17 October 2014, celebrated as Sir Syed Day in the memory of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, founder of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), refreshed memories and raised questions related to various Islamic movements till date and their relevan...
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Foreign Fighters of Pakistan: Why Pashtuns and Punjabis?
D Suba Chandran · 24 Nov, 2014 · #4754 · Commentary
There is an international focus on the phenomenon of foreign fighters today; thanks to the unprecedented attraction that the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq possess, there are foreign fighters expanding the size of the Islamic State from Central...
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Machil Verdict and Eluding Justice
Shujaat Bukhari · 21 Nov, 2014 · #4753 · Commentary
When an Army court martial handed over life imprisonment to five of its men including a Colonel for staging a fake encounter to kill three Kashmiri youth in 2010, it evoked a mixed response. Families of the three civilians, who were picked up fr...
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Nuke Street
US-Russia and Global Nuclear Security: Under a Frosty Spell?
Sheel kant Sharma · 20 Nov, 2014 · #4752 · Commentary · Column
It is twenty years since acute concern about unauthorised and malevolent access to sensitive nuclear material and radioactive substances, particularly from successor states to the former Soviet Union, roused the international community in 1994. ...
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China in Afghanistan: Is the Engagement Really a Win-Win?
Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy · 20 Nov, 2014 · #4751 · Commentary
On 28 October, Ashraf Ghani, the newly-elected president of Afghanistan, landed in Beijing, making China the destination of his first international visit after assuming office. The timing and the visit are telling. The West has been attempting t...
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Northeast India: Where is the Chinese Investment?
Ruhee Neog · 20 Nov, 2014 · #4750 · Commentary
Much has been written about Chinese President Xi Jingping’s visit to India and his camaraderie with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Irrespective of the final pronouncements on the success or failure of the meeting, the areas identifie...
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South Asian Dialectic
Defence Management in India: An Agenda for Parrikar
PR Chari · 20 Nov, 2014 · #4749 · Commentary · Column
Being a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) mukhya pracharak (chief preacher) endeared Manohar Parikkar to Modi and earned him the Defence portfolio. Parikkar is a modern man. He graduated in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of ...
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Myanmar: Why the Islamic State Failed Here
Aparupa Bhattacherjee · 19 Nov, 2014 · #4748 · Commentary
The Islamic State (IS) unilaterally declared an ‘Islamic Caliphate’ in Iraq and Syria in June 2014. This has resulted in the increase in the numbers of radicalised Muslims from all over the world travelling to the region to support t...
