COMMENTARIES
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J&K
Late but welcome realization
Shujaat Bukhari · 05 Aug, 2014 · #4614 · Commentary
What Israel has been doing in Gaza for past about a month has put humanity to shame. It has also exposed the double standards of world powers and brought to the fore the fact how insensitive and incapacitated the Muslim nations are. Whatever the...
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China’s Meddling in the Brahmaputra: India’s Options
Abanti Bhattacharya · 19 Aug, 2014 · #4613 · Commentary
The Brahmaputra River is likely to emerge as a new contentious front embroiling India and China. This dispute will be more deleterious given its entanglement with the India-China border issue. Earlier this year, Vice President Hamid Ansari&rsquo...
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Indian Ocean: Multilateralism Takes Root
Vijay Sakhuja · 19 Aug, 2014 · #4612 · Commentary
India will host the Indian Ocean Dialogue (IOD) at Kochi, Kerala in September to discuss issues of maritime safety and security in the Indian Ocean. The initiative emerges from the 13th meeting of the Council of Ministers in Perth, Australia hel...
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Dateline Kabul
Can Afghanistan Become a "Perfect Place?"
Mariam Safi · 18 Aug, 2014 · #4611 · Commentary
With the anticipated withdrawal of NATO-led International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) troops from Afghanistan by the end 2014, the country will leave behind its decade of transition (2001-2014) and enter the decade of transformation (2015-...
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Dhaka Discourse
Girl Summit Diplomacy and Bangladesh-UK Relations
Delwar Hossain · 18 Aug, 2014 · #4610 · Commentary · Column
The first ever Girl Summit took place on 22 July 2014 in London, UK. The event was co-hosted by the government of UK and the UNICEF, and the summit was dedicated to confronting child, early and forced marriage (CEFM) and female genital mutilatio...
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Indus-tan
Pakistan: Degraded Democracy
Sushant Sareen · 18 Aug, 2014 · #4609 · Commentary · Column
At the time this comment is being penned, the Imran Khan’s ‘Azadi’ March and Tahirul Qadri’s ‘Inquilab’ (revolution) March are besieging Islamabad. The former is demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Naw...
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Red Affairs
Anti-Naxal Operations: Seeking Refuge in Symbolism
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 18 Aug, 2014 · #4608 · Commentary · Column
The day Prime Minister Narendra Modi unfurled the national flag from the precincts of the historic Red Fort to mark India's 68th Independence Day, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) authorities in Chhattisgarh unfurled the tri-colour at...
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Strategic Space
A Strategic Review for India
Manpreet Sethi · 18 Aug, 2014 · #4607 · Commentary · Column
All major nuclear weapon states periodically issue official statements in the form of a Review or a White Paper to provide a peep into their threat assessments and response priorities. The US Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) is well known. Russia to...
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South Asian Dialectic
Modi’s Tryst with Abe
PR Chari · 18 Aug, 2014 · #4606 · Commentary · Column
Modi’s first foray outside South Asia was to Brazil to attend the sixth BRICS Summit on 15-16 July. This gave him the opportunity to meet President Xi Jinping and President Vladimir Putin. Incidentally, he was to visit Japan in early July....
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Indo-Pacific
South China Sea: Intransigence Over Troubled Waters
Shankari Sundararaman · 18 Aug, 2014 · #4605 · Commentary · Column
Last week, the Foreign Ministers of ASEAN and its dialogue partners gathered at Naypyidaw, Myanmar, for the 47th ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting followed by the 21st ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) and 4th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers Meetings ...
