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  • India, Pakistan and the Nuclear Race: The Two Pots Down the Nuclear Stream
    Rabia Akhtar    ·   24 Apr, 2013    ·    #3892    ·    Commentary    
    Aesopian fables and their moral parallels in our everyday life are amusing. But anyone who believes that slow and steady wins the race, has never really won a race. Perhaps India and Pakistan as tortoise and hare respectively are not trying to &...
  • Special Commentary: Carnegie 2013 Nuclear Policy Conference
    Arun Vishwanathan    ·   23 Apr, 2013    ·    #3891    ·    Commentary    
    In the midst of the ‘proliferation’ of cherry blossoms in Washington DC, the 2013 Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference was held at the Ronald Reagan Building on April 8 and 9, 2013. The fifteenth annual international nucl...
  • Pakistan Elections 2013: Will things change?
    PR Chari    ·   22 Apr, 2013    ·    #3890    ·    Commentary    
    A week, Harold Wilson once famously said, is a long time in politics. May 11, when the next Pakistani general elections are scheduled, is three weeks away, but speculation about what will happen is rife amongst the concerned elite in Pakistan an...
  • P-3C vs. P-8I: India, Pakistan and the Naval Balance
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   21 Apr, 2013    ·    #3889    ·    Commentary    
    Naval aviation is an important part of the naval strategy of India and Pakistan. The Pakistan navy took the lead in the sub-continent in terms of introducing the Atlantique long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft and Sea King helicopters fit...
  • Special Commentary: China's Defence White Paper 2013
    Jayadeva Ranade    ·   20 Apr, 2013    ·    #3888    ·    Commentary    
    Click here for the PDF version. China issued its eighth bi-annual Defence White Paper entitled: ‘The Diversified Employment of China’s Armed Forces’, on April 16, 2013. The last White Paper, pertaining to 2010, was publishe...
  • Boston Bombings: Possible Lessons
    Amit Gupta    ·   20 Apr, 2013    ·    #3887    ·    Commentary    
    A few days after the Boston bomb blast, out of the two suspects identified, one has been killed and the other captured, thanks largely to the overwhelming public response with cellphone and camera video and still pictures.  What lessons can...
  • Naxal Violence: The LWE Redux in Jharkhand
    Deepak Kumar Nayak    ·   18 Apr, 2013    ·    #3886    ·    Commentary    
    The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) killed five jawans of the Jharkhand Armed Police (JAP) on 4 April 2013, in Gumla District in Jharkhand. In addition, a group of 25 to 30 Maoists blew up the Sreeram Panchayat Secretariat building ...
  • The North Korean Crisis: Musudan Missile Test a Potential Face-Saver for Kim Jong-un?
    Aakriti Bhutoria    ·   18 Apr, 2013    ·    #3885    ·    Commentary    
    As the world continues to grapple to find ways of responding to North Korea’s threat-mongering, the DPRK is fast losing out on credible provocations short of an apocalypse. Already seen as ‘a boy who cried wolf’, North Korea is...
  • Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees: Travails of Asylum Seeking
    Prof. V. Suryanarayan    ·   18 Apr, 2013    ·    #3884    ·    Commentary    
    Lured by the fairy tales of an El Dorado in Australia, Sri Lankan Tamil refugees are falling prey to unscrupulous human traffickers. Last week, for instance, a tragic event took place in the Bay of Bengal. After paying huge amounts to touts, 120...
  • Pir Panjal International Festival: Marketing Rajouri, Poonch, Bhaderwah and Basholi
    D Suba Chandran    ·   18 Apr, 2013    ·    #3883    ·    Commentary    
    Few weeks earlier, a commentary in this column focussed on the need to have “Friends of Pir Panjal” on the models of Friends of Tibet. This commentary is a follow up, though the subject was addressed few years ago. The author was ...
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