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  • Taliban Tracker
    Unraveling of FATA
    D Suba Chandran    ·   05 Mar, 2014    ·    #4323    ·    Commentary    
    Where does the Federally Administered Tribal Agencies (FATA) of Pakistan stand today in the ongoing talks and violence led by the Taliban and the State? What does the FATA want, in terms of the ongoing war against terrorism across the Durand Lin...
  • Smokescreen of Secularism
    Shujaat Bukhari    ·   04 Mar, 2014    ·    #4322    ·    Commentary    
    Come elections, there is a rat race among political parties in India to woo the Muslim voters. This all is obviously done under the smokescreen of “secularism”, which has been unabashedly abused by the warring political parties. Now th...
  • Af-Pak Diary
    Across the Durand Line: Who is in Control Now? Will That Change?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   03 Mar, 2014    ·    #4321    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    Dr. Arvind Gupta, Director General, the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, India, at a recent conference, raised an important question while discussing the Af-Pak region: who is in control? Given the recent developments on both sides ...
  • Maritime Matters
    Increasing Maritime Competition: IORA, IONS, Milan and the Indian Ocean Networks
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   03 Mar, 2014    ·    #4320    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    The Indian Ocean rim countries have establishment a number of multilateral maritime mechanisms to address non-traditional security threats and challenges confronting the region. The Indian Ocean Rim-Association of Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC),...
  • Himalayan Frontier
    Chinese Inroads to Nepal
    Pramod Jaiswal    ·   03 Mar, 2014    ·    #4319    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    Over the recent months, China, in an attempt to strengthen its relations with the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), has been taking efforts to build a close-knit strategic alliance with Nepal. At a meeting with a visiting...
  • Spotlight West Asia
    Saudi Arabia-US Estrangement: Implications for the Indian Subcontinent
    Ranjit Gupta    ·   03 Mar, 2014    ·    #4318    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    The Arab Spring strongly compounded Saudi Arabia’s progressively increasing disillusionment with the US when, to its utter consternation and deep anger, the US failed to prevent the overthrow of Mubarak, a faithful ally for more than three...
  • East Asia Compass
    North Korean Peace Gestures and Inter-Korea Relations
    Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra    ·   03 Mar, 2014    ·    #4317    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    A lot has been happening in North Korean domestic politics as well as its relations with South Korea in recent months. Some of these happenings appear to indicate that there may be some improvement in the relationship between Pyongyang and Seoul...
  • The Nuclear Energy Debate in Pakistan
    Ahmad Khan and Beenish Altaf    ·   19 Feb, 2014    ·    #4316    ·    Commentary    
    The very mention of the word nuclear more often than not invokes a sentiment of antagonism towards nuclear energy. Nuclear pessimists often associate this word with the mushroom cloud, the Three Mile Island incident, the Chernobyl incident, and ...
  • Red Affairs
    Maoists in the Northeast: Reality and Myth-Making
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   17 Feb, 2014    ·    #4315    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    On 9 June 2013, just before the clock struck midnight, a police contingent in Assam's Tinsukia district boarded the Chennai-Egmore Express, minutes before its three-day long journey, and pulled out 66 youths. A critical intelligence input re...
  • South Asian Dialectic
    Federalism: Centre as Coordinator and Adjudicator
    PR Chari    ·   17 Feb, 2014    ·    #4314    ·    Commentary    ·   Column
    Some verities about federalism in the context of regionalism in South Asia are becoming clearer. The proposition that "the (changing) political map of South Asian countries must reflect its social and cultural diversities" is unarguabl...
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