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  • Kayani's Latest Gestures
    Radha Vinod Raju    ·   01 Nov, 2011    ·    #3481    ·    Commentary    
    In a recent Track-II event held in Bangkok between Indian and Pakistani experts under the Chaophraya Dialogue promoted by the Jinnah Institute at Islamabad and the Australia-India Institute at Melbourne, the Pakistanis insisted that India should...
  • Stilwell Route: What are its Economic Implications?
    Jayasree Nath    ·   31 Oct, 2011    ·    #3480    ·    Commentary    
    There are two important viewpoints regarding the reopening of the Stilwell route as a trade road. The one in support considers the commercial development and overall trade benefit of the region. The other, in opposition, argues that there are ex...
  • Indo-Afghan Strategic Partnership Agreement: Potential Problems
    Aryaman Bhatnagar    ·   24 Oct, 2011    ·    #3479    ·    Commentary    
    The recently held talks between Hamid Karzai and Manmohan Singh culminated in a strategic pact between the two countries. It entrusts India with the responsibility of training the Afghan Army once the American troops withdraw from Afghanistan in...
  • Revisiting Confucius
    Teshu Singh    ·   24 Oct, 2011    ·    #3478    ·    Commentary    
    China hosted the fourth World Confucius Conference from September 26 to 29 September 2011, in the city of Qufu, Shandong Province, which is also the birthplace of this ancient philosopher. The basic objective of the conference was to gain more f...
  • Impediments to Yingluck’s New Approach for Southern Thailand
    Panchali Saikia    ·   21 Oct, 2011    ·    #3477    ·    Commentary    
    The violence of the ethnic separatist insurgency in the southern provinces of Thailand (Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat) continues unabated, raising the brutality to the level of international terrorism by targeting foreign tourists. The recent tri...
  • Nuristan: The Second Front in the Afghan Insurgency
    Raghav Sharma    ·   16 Oct, 2011    ·    #3476    ·    Commentary    
    Much has been written about the US surge, much of it being directed towards mounting military offenses against the Taliban in its traditional strongholds in the south. NATO generals too have laid tall claims at having made ‘credible’...
  • China in Space: A Threat?
    Gunjan Singh    ·   05 Oct, 2011    ·    #3475    ·    Commentary    
    In the past few decades the Chinese space programme has achieved a number of milestones which have placed it amongst the leading space powers in the world. China was the third country to have successfully put a human in space. China completed a ...
  • On India-South Korea Relations
    Jinwoog Kim    ·   04 Oct, 2011    ·    #3474    ·    Commentary    
    India-South Korea relations date back many centuries to the time when the princess of Ayodhya married Kim Suro, the King of Gaya. Their descendants are still known to visit Ayodhya every year to pay homage to their ancestral maternal roots. Budd...
  • Reading Pakistan: What if US-Pak Ties Break?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   04 Oct, 2011    ·    #3473    ·    Commentary    
    A bill has already been introduced in the US Congress to cut aid to Pakistan, following the accusation that the Haqqani network has been functioning as a ‘veritable arm’ of the ISI in Afghanistan. Pakistan has retorted that such accu...
  • Russian Politicking on the Korean Peninsula
    Ruhee Neog    ·   30 Sep, 2011    ·    #3472    ·    Commentary    
    Kim Jong-il met Russian President Medvedev in August this year, in the former’s first visit to the country in nine years. It was primarily a diplomatic and economic strengthening exercise, and a variety of issues, from North Korean proclam...
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