COMMENTARIES
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Dhaka Discourse
East Meets West: Bangladesh and the BIMSTEC Summit
Delwar Hossain · 17 Mar, 2014 · #4343 · Commentary · Column
The third Summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), held in Myanmar's capital Naypyidaw from 3-4 March ended with the call to achieve collective prosperity for the region. BIMSTEC...
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Dateline Kabul
Afghan Elections 2014: What to Expect?
Mariam Safi · 17 Mar, 2014 · #4342 · Commentary
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, in his final speech to the Wolesi Jirga (Parliament) on 15 March 2014, took a strong stance warning foreign countries against interfering in the upcoming presidential elections, asserting that local electoral bodie...
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Red Affairs
Combating Naxal Violence: Transient and Permanent Success
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 17 Mar, 2014 · #4341 · Commentary · Column
Would the Maoists continue to carry out intermittent attacks targetting the state in the foreseeable future? Or would they eventually disintegrate and disappear owing to a leadership crisis because the state has been able to neutralise some of t...
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Dateline Islamabad
Afghanistan and Pakistan: Consequences of the American Exit
Salma Malik · 17 Mar, 2014 · #4340 · Commentary · Column
The announcement of a drawdown timeline for US troops from Afghanistan predictably garnered mixed reactions. However, most of the issues that brought the US-led ISAF to the region still remain unresolved. Where on one hand Osama bin Laden’...
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South Asian Dialectic
India and Nuclear Terrorism: Meeting the Threat
PR Chari · 17 Mar, 2014 · #4339 · Commentary · Column
Nuclear Terrorism: Is the threat exaggerated?
To play the devil’s advocate, it is not easy for unauthorised persons to acquire nuclear weapons or nuclear materials. Being crown jewels, they would be closely guarded by trusted cohorts...
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Strategic Space
Nuclear Security Summit 2014: Shared Risk, Shared Responsibility
Manpreet Sethi · 17 Mar, 2014 · #4338 · Commentary · Column
In just a few days, heads of governments of about four dozen nations will assemble in the Hague, Netherlands, for the third Nuclear Security Summit. An initiative started by President Obama in 2010 in Washington, the Summit travelled to Seoul in...
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US and Asia-Pacific
Pivot, Rebalance and What Next?
D Suba Chandran · 13 Mar, 2014 · #4337 · Commentary
The American strategy towards the Asia Pacific is facing serious challenges. What started as a new “pivot” to Asia and later shifted to a “rebalance” now needs serious re-adjustment. Not because the American strategy is p...
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J&K
Of Sedition and Cricket
Shujaat Bukhari · 13 Mar, 2014 · #4336 · Commentary
When India played against West Indies in Srinagar on October 13, 1983, I vividly remember how star batsman Sunil Gavaskar felt awkward when the spectators were carrying long posters of Imran Khan in their hands. He just waved at them and gesture...
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TAPI Pipeline: Expected by 2017?
Roomana Hukil · 12 Mar, 2014 · #4335 · Commentary
Recent talks by the Indian Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Veerappa Moily, on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project and China taking over the chief controllership of the pipeline project from the US has r...
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Indian Navy: Responding to Perceptions of Being ‘All at Sea’
C Uday Bhaskar · 10 Mar, 2014 · #4334 · Commentary
A tragic industrial accident occurred on 07 March on a naval warship under construction in the Mazagon Docks, Mumbai, resulting in the death of a naval officer. The fire-fighting equipment on board the Kolkata class destroyer was being tested and ...
