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  • Kashmir: A Hot Summer Ahead?
    Ali Ahmed    ·   28 Jan, 2011    ·    #3321    ·    Commentary    
    Events in Tunisia, Egypt and Lebanon have drawn widespread surprise since for the first time Arabs have turned out on the streets. After decades of domination by authoritarian regimes, supported by the West in most cases, democratic stirrings ha...
  • Alternative Strategies for Indo-Sri Lankan Relations: Passenger Ferry Service
    N Manoharan    ·   28 Jan, 2011    ·    #3320    ·    Commentary    
    With the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Passenger Transport by India and Sri Lanka on 7 January 2011, there is hope for a revival of the passenger ferry service between the two countries. The ferry service was suspended in 1...
  • Sino-Tajik Border: Settlement or Entrapment?
    Bhavna Singh    ·   28 Jan, 2011    ·    #3319    ·    Commentary    
    Pragmatism and realpolitik have paved the way for Tajikistan to cede territory to China in lieu of ascertaining its territorial integrity and sovereignty as well as addressing China’s irredentist claims in ‘Da Xia’ (the Central...
  • The Indian Army: Organizational Changes in the Offing
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   17 Jan, 2011    ·    #3318    ·    Commentary    
    The recent headline in a leading national daily, “Indian Army set for its most radical revamp,” is entirely believable. The article informs that “proposals include setting up of a Strategic Command, comprising of Army's offen...
  • India and Iran: Convergent Interests, Widening Fault Lines
    Lydia Walker    ·   13 Jan, 2011    ·    #3317    ·    Commentary    
    On Thursday, 23 December 2010, India’s Central Bank announced that Indian companies which buy Iranian oil and gas would no longer be permitted to use the Asian Clearing Union (ACU) to facilitate international commerce. Two weeks later, a d...
  • The Oil Payments: New Twist in India-Iran Relations
    Uddipan Mukherjee    ·   13 Jan, 2011    ·    #3316    ·    Commentary    
    A fresh spin was provided to the turbulent India-Iran bilateral relations when India’s Central Bank issued a directive on December 27 2010, regarding the payment mechanism for trade with Iran. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced that: ...
  • Japan’s New Policy Defense Program Guideline and Japan-India Security Cooperation
    Kei Koga    ·   13 Jan, 2011    ·    #3315    ·    Commentary    
    On 17 December 2010, the Japanese government produced a new National Defense Program Guideline (NDPG). Japan’s defense objectives consists of the defense of Japan, regional security and stability and world peace and human security, and its...
  • Reading Pakistan-II: Four Implications of Salman Taseer’s Assassination
    D Suba Chandran    ·   10 Jan, 2011    ·    #3314    ·    Commentary    
    A voice of reason against the abuse of blasphemy law in Pakistan has been brutally silenced. What are the implications? If his assassination is a loss to the moderate voices in Pakistan, who stands to gain? What does this loss and gain mean for ...
  • China’s Longjiang Dam: Concerns for Myanmar
    Panchali Saikia    ·   10 Jan, 2011    ·    #3313    ·    Commentary    
    As divergence continues over river-water sharing between China and lower riparian countries in the Mekong subregion, a new concern has emerged over the Longjiang dam on the China-Myanmar border. With a considerable increase in trade and Chinese in...
  • Reading Pakistan-I: Who Killed Salman Taseer?
    D Suba Chandran    ·   07 Jan, 2011    ·    #3312    ·    Commentary    
    Yes, of course the security guard pumped bullets into Salman Taseer, the Governor of Punjab, who stood against the Blasphemy laws in Pakistan. But, did he really kill Taseer? Or is he only an expression and an instrument of a larger narrow relig...
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