COMMENTARIES
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Sri Lanka: Should India Boycott the Commonwealth Meeting?
V Suryanarayan · 15 Oct, 2013 · #4143 · Commentary
As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo is fast approaching, questions are being raised in India, especially in Tamil Nadu, about the rationale of Indian participation. Some political groupings argue that Indian ...
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China and Southeast Asia: What is the Strategy behind the Maritime Silk Road?
Teshu Singh · 15 Oct, 2013 · #4142 · Commentary
The absence of the US at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bali has given China an opportunity to downplay its ‘charm offensive’ in the Southeast Asian region. During the meeting, China proposed the revival of th...
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China-Malaysia: Is the Tilt Real?
Aparupa Bhattacharjee · 15 Oct, 2013 · #4141 · Commentary
Malaysia recently hosted the Chinese President Xi Jinping, who visited on 3 October 2013. This is the first trip made by the president to Southeast Asia since he took office in March 2013. Malaysia was the second destination of this trip, which ...
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Intrusions along LoC/IB in J&K: Pakistan’s Objectives
Rana Banerji · 15 Oct, 2013 · #4140 · Commentary
Attempts to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir intensify usually in the autumn, marking, to some extent, the desperation to keep the strength of hardcore, committed militants at a sufficient high. 95 militants infiltrated in 2010, 52 in 2011 and ...
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Intrusions along LoC/IB in J&K: A Wake Up Call
Dr. Ashok Bhan · 12 Oct, 2013 · #4139 · Commentary
Why have recent developments along the LoC/ IB in Jammu and Kashmir evoked such uproar in the Indian media and surprised a section of security analysts? Did India expect Pakistan, its Army and the ISI to play ball just because a democratically e...
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Sri Lanka: Canada's Decision to Boycott the Commonwealth
Charles Aruliah · 11 Oct, 2013 · #4138 · Commentary
After two years of speculation, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has officially announced that he would not be attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting scheduled for November 2013 in Sri Lanka. The government of Sri Lanka has b...
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Pakistan: Deciphering ‘Hate’ Factories
D Suba Chandran · 10 Oct, 2013 · #4137 · Commentary
An interesting commentary by Shujaat Bhukari (http://bit.ly/1fllBfs) that referred to madrassa education needs further analysis and understanding. How have these institutions of education and learning ended up as hate factories in Pakistan? Why ...
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IPCS Debate
Horsemen of Change: Politics, Economics, Technology and Security
Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar · 10 Oct, 2013 · #4136 · Commentary
In his discourse at the Prem Bhatia Memorial lecture on 11 August 2013, Mr Shyam Saran, a former Foreign Secretary and current chairman of the National Security Advisory Board, noted with some precision that the transformed landscape that we liv...
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IPCS Debate
India, Nuclear Weapons and ‘Massive Retaliation’: The Impossibility of Limitation?
Ali Ahmed · 08 Oct, 2013 · #4135 · Commentary
Shyam Saran speaking in his personal capacity, rather than as the current head of the National Security Advisory Board, relies on his association with the evolution of India’s nuclear doctrine to make the case that India would do well to s...
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Bangladesh-India Relations: Successes and Failures
Harun ur Rashid · 08 Oct, 2013 · #4134 · Commentary
In 2009, the installation of the Awami League government in Bangladesh and the Congress party in India created a congenial ambience to build a stronger bilateral architecture.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s landmark four-day...
