COMMENTARIES
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The P-5 Visits and India’s Nuclear Energy Programme
· 04 Jan, 2011 · #3311 · Commentary
The race to enter India’s nuclear power market is on. India has been gaining recognition as a responsible nuclear weapons power and, more significantly, expanding its nuclear commerce. Not all the deals that India wanted have fructified; b...
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New START Ratification: Future Possibilities?
Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Dipankar Banerjee · 04 Jan, 2011 · #3310 · Commentary
The US Senate approved the ratification of the New START Treaty at a lame duck session on 22 December 2010. The President signed it the following day. This successful ratification was the major foreign policy achievement of the Obama administrat...
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Obama’s Annual Af-Pak Review: Need for a Reappraisal
Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Dipankar Banerjee · 03 Jan, 2011 · #3309 · Commentary
President Barrack Obama released another review of the Af-Pak situation on 16 Dec 2010. Weeks in formulation and after careful deliberations by top officials, the summary still leaves too many questions unanswered. Unlike the Bruce Riedel report...
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“Kashmiri Goods Ought to Reach Rawalpindi and Karachi”: Abdul Hameed Punjabi
Nadir Ali · 30 Dec, 2010 · #3308 · Commentary
Nadir Ali: What is your assessment of intra-Kashmir trade over the last two years? What is the estimated worth of daily transactions?
Abdul Hameed Punjabi: We have an unofficial graph according to which the estimated value of trade is around...
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“Remittance is the Way Forward for Cross-LoC Trade”: Shakeel Qalander
Nadir Ali · 30 Dec, 2010 · #3307 · Commentary
Nadir Ali: What is your assessment of the cross-LoC trade over the last two years? What are the problems and prospects associated with this trade?
Shakeel Qalander: Cross-LOC trade was initiated as a Confidence Building Measure (CBM) in 2008, w...
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Sino-Pak Nuclear Engagement-IV: What Can India Do?
Siddharth Ramana · 29 Dec, 2010 · #3306 · Commentary
The writing on the wall seems clear: Despite initial international opposition, the ‘grandfathered’ nuclear agreement between China and Pakistan will not result in any sanctions against either party. India must reconcile itself to hav...
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Sino-Pak Nuclear Engagement-III: Strategic Implications
Ruhee Neog · 29 Dec, 2010 · #3305 · Commentary
The Sino-Pak nuclear agreement to build two nuclear reactors in Pakistan, reports of which surfaced earlier this year, was followed by much analysis and debate. The Chinese Premier’s recently concluded trip to Pakistan, where no mention wa...
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Sino-Pak Nuclear Engagement-II: Where Does the US Stand?
Lydia Walker · 29 Dec, 2010 · #3304 · Commentary
In 2008, Anne Patterson, the US Ambassador to Pakistan cabled Washington that "our major concern is not having an Islamic militant steal an entire weapon but rather the chance someone working in government of Pakistan facilities could...
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Sino-Pak Nuclear Engagement -I: The Big ‘Deal’
· 29 Dec, 2010 · #3303 · Commentary
The Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to Pakistan this December stirred no action on the issue most in the international community awaited - the China-Pakistan Civil Nuclear Deal. The buzz kick started two years ago and the deal was signe...
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Obama’s Afghanistan Review: A Perspective from Pakistan
Shabana Fayyaz · 23 Dec, 2010 · #3302 · Commentary
The recently launched so-called Annual Review of the US strategic assessment of the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan leaves more questions than answers to the complexity on the ground. Theoretically, policy review implies rethinking and reexa...
