COMMENTARIES
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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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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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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...
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Factories of ‘Hate’ and Pakistan’s Fate
Shujaat Bukhari · 03 Oct, 2013 · #4133 · Commentary
A few hours after a suicide bomber hit a Church in Peshawar on Sunday last, a six-year-old, chubby boy was struggling to get out of the clutches of two youngsters in a crowded Rawalpindi bazaar. Weeping and crying it was clear that he did not want...
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Iran’s Nuclear Programme: Is Rouhani in a Win-Win Situation?
Rajeev Agarwal · 01 Oct, 2013 · #4132 · Commentary
How much is Iran ready to compromise in nuclear negotiations? Could it entail giving up its nuclear enrichment programme? Would the US and the P5+1 be willing to accept Iran’s stance on its peaceful nuclear programme and the obvious lead up ...
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Indo-German Relations: Implications of 2013 German Federal Elections
Kai Fürstenberg · 01 Oct, 2013 · #4131 · Commentary
After relatively slow and quiet election campaigns, the German federal elections brought surprising results. First, the FDP, the liberal party, lost about 10 per cent of its vote share and will not be represented in the next Bundestag (federal p...
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Technological Change and Security: Implications for India
PR Chari · 01 Oct, 2013 · #4130 · Commentary
That technological change is value neutral and can lead to either greater security or insecurity is well known. But the linkage of technological change to a 'cultural time lag' is seldom identified, which is the period required for cultu...
