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  • US in Asia Pacific
    Rebalancing: Where Does India Figure?
    Monish Tourangbam    ·   14 May, 2014    ·    #4435    ·    Commentary    
    Although the US government has tried to soften the China element in its rebalancing strategy, it remains ubiquitous, with Beijing undoubtedly seeing it as a ‘China containment’ policy. The centrality of India’s role in this str...
  • Media in Pakistan: Divided They Fall
    Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy    ·   13 May, 2014    ·    #4434    ·    Commentary    
    The recent unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir in Karachi opened a can of worms vis-à-vis the complexities in the relationship the Pakistani media shares with State and non-State actors. That Pakistani me...
  • Dateline Islamabad
    India-Pakistan: Nuclear Weapons and Crisis Diplomacy
    Salma Malik    ·   12 May, 2014    ·    #4432    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    18 May, 2014, will mark the 40th anniversary of India going nuclear. ‘Buddha smiled’ mightily for the first time, in the scorching desert of Pokhran, India, in May 1974 and then again, in 1998. In reciprocation, Pakistan too entered ...
  • The Strategist
    The Chilling Prospects of Nuclear Devices at Large
    Vijay Shankar    ·   12 May, 2014    ·    #4431    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    During the Cold War, the Soviet Union produced over one thousand tons of weapon grade plutonium and highly enriched uranium. By 1986 its stockpile numbered 45,000 warheads; it was poorly inventoried; spread across the Republics with fissionable ...
  • Eagle Eye
    US’ Frantic Effort to Make the Rebalancing Strategy Work
    Chintamani Mahapatra    ·   12 May, 2014    ·    #4430    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    Since late 2011, the Obama administration has been repeatedly trumpeting a new strategy to sustain and strengthen the US’s interests in the Asia-Pacific.  First, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton published an article high...
  • Real Threat to Sharif and Pakistan
    Imran Khan, Not Taliban
    D Suba Chandran    ·   07 May, 2014    ·    #4429    ·    Commentary    
    It is deja vu in Pakistan. In a matter of month, there has been a dramatic change in the political scenario in terms of relationship between the major institutions and actors within the country. Consider the following developments and com...
  • Pakistan: Military and the Myth of Independent Media
    Sushant Sareen    ·   08 May, 2014    ·    #4428    ·    Commentary    
    When Pakistani journalists interact with Indians, it is a fairly common practise for many of them to label others of their ilk as an ‘agencies man’; i.e. being on the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)/Intelligence Bureau/Military Int...
  • Appointment of the Next Indian Army Chief: A Contested Political Issue
    C Uday Bhaskar    ·   07 May, 2014    ·    #4427    ·    Commentary    
    The UPA government led by PM Manmohan Singh is expected to demit office on 16 May 2014 when the eagerly awaited elections results will be announced by the Election Commission (EC). Both the BJP and the Congress have been making strong claims tha...
  • Af-Pak Diary
    Inside Pakistan: The Establishment’s Two-Front War
    D Suba Chandran    ·   05 May, 2014    ·    #4426    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    The Establishment in Pakistan may have worried about a two-front war bordering India and Afghanistan for a long time, but it never would have imagined a two-front war within the country itself, vis-à-vis the elected political leadership a...
  • Spotlight West Asia
    Elections in Iraq: Uncertain Prospects
    Ranjit Gupta    ·   05 May, 2014    ·    #4425    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    The US’ unilateral invasion of Iraq in 2003, the subsequent overthrow and execution of then President Saddam Hussein, and the complete dismantling of the Ba'athist state apparatus left an already emaciated Iraq – to over a decade...
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