COMMENTARIES
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DPRK and UN Sanctions: China’s Position
Ruhee Neog · 01 Jul, 2012 · #3662 · Commentary
The UNSC (United Nations Security Council) released the annual Panel of Experts (PoE) Report on violations of sanctions by the DPRK on 29 June 2012 (http://bit.ly/LpF9h8). Its publication is significant because the official release of PoE report...
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Urban Terrorism: India Must Get its Act Together
Gurmeet Kanwal · 30 Jun, 2012 · #3661 · Commentary
On 26 November 2008, a new type of tsunami hit Mumbai, India’s commercial capital. Ten mercenary marauders from Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Toiba, armed, trained, equipped and controlled by ISI handlers, sneaked in undetected from the sea a...
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Pakistan’s New Prime Minister and the Political Impasse
Aryaman Bhatnagar · 30 Jun, 2012 · #3660 · Commentary
Raja Pervez Ashraf has been appointed the new Prime Minister of Pakistan following the dismissal of his predecessor, Yusuf Gilani, by the Supreme Court. Gilani was declared ineligible for the post following his conviction on 26 April 2012 on cha...
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Reading Pakistan: What Next After the Judicial Coup, My Lord?
D Suba Chandran · 30 Jun, 2012 · #3659 · Commentary
While everyone was expecting that there would be a compromise between the judiciary and the legislature in the contempt case against Yusuf Gilani, the Supreme Court disqualified the Prime Minister. Though the parliament and the President have ac...
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Nepal: A Potential Flashpoint Again
Dinesh Aryal · 28 Jun, 2012 · #3658 · Commentary
Following the dissolution of the Constitutional Assembly which could not even accomplish its assigned task of promulgating constitution for federal Nepal, the dissenting faction of the largest political party of Nepal, United Communist Party &nd...
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Religious Intolerance in Indonesia: Political Lassitude or Budgetary Constraint?
Baladas Ghoshal · 27 Jun, 2012 · #3657 · Commentary
The recent budgetary rollback aimed at accommodating the swelling fuel subsidies triggered by soaring global oil prices has particularly affected the National Counter-terrorism Agency (BNPT). For the last two years, it has been on the frontline ...
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An Eye on China: President Aquino Meets Obama
Anil Kumar · 26 Jun, 2012 · #3656 · Commentary
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III met President Barack Obama (6-9 June 2012) in the Oval Office for the first time. His visit is seen as an important step towards the revival of defence and security cooperation between the US and its forme...
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ROK in the Asia-Pacific Century
Ruhee Neog · 26 Jun, 2012 · #3655 · Commentary
US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was recently on an extensive tour of Asia to drive home the message that the US is a Pacific power reorienting its focus towards Asia. In this period of uncertainty, Asian powers are likely to hedge their bets ...
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Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO): The Indian Standpoint
Teshu Singh · 25 Jun, 2012 · #3654 · Commentary
The SCO is a permanent intergovernmental international organization formulated in 2001 in Shanghai by Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. India has an observer status in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) a...
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Withdrawal of Oil Companies from Nepal: Realistic interventions
Pradeepa Viswanathan · 23 Jun, 2012 · #3653 · Commentary
In June 2012, Nepal witnessed the withdrawal of two oil companies - the US-based Texana Resources Company and the UK-based Cairn Energy. These companies withdrew from their allocated blocks in the Terai region citing bureaucratic hurdles and lac...
