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  • Af-Pak Diary
    Resetting Kabul-Islamabad Relations: Three Key Issues
    D Suba Chandran    ·   01 Dec, 2014    ·    #4762    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    In November 2014, the new President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, made his maiden visit to Pakistan, one that is being projected as a “breakthrough” in the bilateral relations between the two countries. Only recently, the renowned in...
  • Voice from America
    China's Global Ambition: Need to Emulate Germany
    Amit Gupta    ·   01 Dec, 2014    ·    #4761    ·    Commentary    
    In 1972, Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong signed the Shanghai communique that resulted in a simple but brilliant bargain between the US and China. The US agreed to recognise China and give up propping up the regime in Taipei as the legitimate govern...
  • Looking East
    India-China: Securitising Water
    Wasbir Hussain    ·   01 Dec, 2014    ·    #4760    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    A day after China commissioned the biggest hydro-power plant in Tibet on 23 November 2014, India named National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval as its Special Representative on the boundary talks with Beijing. This means the boundary dialogue ...
  • The China Model
    Rise India, avoid regional pitfalls
    D Suba Chandran    ·   26 Nov, 2014    ·    #4759    ·    Commentary    
    Is India today in a situation where China was fifteen years ago, in terms of well poised for a global take off? Are there lessons that India could learn from how China pursued its political and economic growth widely referred as a “peacefu...
  • J&K
    Article 370 Bandwagon
    Shujaat Bukhari    ·   27 Nov, 2014    ·    #4758    ·    Commentary    
    On December 1, 2013, Prime Minister Narendra Modi (then Gujarat Chief Minister) created a stir when he called for a debate on Article 370. He was addressing a public meeting in Jammu and surprised one and all with the ostensible departure from h...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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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