COMMENTARIES
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Dateline Islamabad
Burying the Past: A New Beginning for Pakistan and Afghanistan
Salma Malik · 18 Nov, 2014 · #4743 · Commentary · Column
The newly-elected President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, while addressing a joint press conference at the end of his two-day visit to Pakistan, said “We must overcome the past…we will not permit the past to destroy the future.&rdqu...
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The Indo-Pacific
Modi in Myanmar: From ‘Look East’ to ‘Act East’
Shankari Sundararaman · 17 Nov, 2014 · #4742 · Commentary
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to the Myanmar endorses that all is well with India’s policy to the countries that lie to the east. Since he took office in May 2014, there were some views among observers that India...
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Red Affairs
Naxal Violence: Challenges to Jharkhand Polls
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 17 Nov, 2014 · #4741 · Commentary · Column
As electorates in Jharkhand start casting their ballot on 25 November, marking the beginning of the five-phase assembly elections spanning almost a month, the threat of left-wing extremism hangs heavy over the poll process. However, while the el...
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Indus-tan
Islamic State: Prospects in Pakistan
Sushant Sareen · 17 Nov, 2014 · #4740 · Commentary · Column
In recent weeks, there has been a lot of activity taking place in various parts of Pakistan in the name of the abominable, but also ineluctable, Islamic State (IS). Apart from some senior commanders of the Mullah Fazlullah-led Tehrik-e-Taliban P...
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Dhaka Discourse
Bangladesh in Global Forums: Diplomacy vs. Domestic Politics
Delwar Hossain · 17 Nov, 2014 · #4739 · Commentary · Column
Perhaps for the first time Bangladesh has achieved a new feat in the conduct of its diplomacy. This time it is not successful bilateral visits to major powers such as Russia or China neither the pursuit of Look East Policy, nor the Dhaka-Washing...
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Strategic Space
Global Nuclear Disarmament: The Humanitarian Consequences Route
Manpreet Sethi · 17 Nov, 2014 · #4738 · Commentary · Column
The tenacity of nuclear weapons to continue to exist is evident. At the end of the Cold War, many wrote obituaries claiming that these weapons would soon be the “detritus of the Cold War.” Nothing however, could have been further from ...
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Using Defence for Development: New Policy Options for India
Bhartendu Kumar Singh · 13 Nov, 2014 · #4737 · Commentary
Defence and development have remained watertight compartments in India’s national security discourse and are largely perceived within the ‘guns versus butter debate’. Both compete for the scarce resources and hesitate to reach ...
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UNSC Resolution 2178
Fighting Foreign Fighters: New Legislations
Tuva Julie Engebrethsen Smith · 13 Nov, 2014 · #4736 · Commentary
Over the course of this year, the threat of Islamist terror changed dramatically for the worse. 13,000 people who do not belong either to Syria, or Iraq, now fight for the terrorist group, the Islamic State (IS) in its battles in Syria and Iraq....
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Maritime Silk Road: Increasing Chinese Inroads into the Maldives
Srikanth Kondapalli · 13 Nov, 2014 · #4735 · Commentary
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s September 2014 visit to the Maldives was his first visit to South Asia, indicating to the balance of power dimension with India. Through the joint press communiqué on September 15, China secured the Ma...
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Regional Economy
18th SAARC Summit: An Economic Agenda
Amita Batra · 11 Nov, 2014 · #4734 · Commentary · Column
The 18th SAARC summit is scheduled to be held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in a little less than three weeks from now. The theme of the summit is ‘deeper integration for peace and prosperity’. Deeper integration, in addition to the cre...
