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  • China at 60 - Sino-Indian Tensions
    PR Chari    ·   26 Oct, 2009    ·    #2989    ·    Commentary    
    Let’s get the nuggets of wisdom out of the way. India and China have been indifferent neighbors in history with the high Himalayas intervening between them. The Indic and Sinic cultures are competitive, as clearly visible in Southeast Asia...
  • Foreign Hand in Iran Bombing?
    M Mahtab Alam Rizvi    ·   23 Oct, 2009    ·    #2988    ·    Commentary    
    The recent suicide attacks in Iran killed at least 42 people including five senior commanders of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and some tribal leaders, dozens others were wounded in two bombings in the volatile sou...
  • India Investing in MIRV Technology
    Ajey Lele    ·   22 Oct, 2009    ·    #2987    ·    Commentary    
    What is a credible nuclear deterrence? This question is being debated in India for last couple of years without much of agreement amongst security experts. The debate normally focuses around issues such as what number of nuclear weapons should I...
  • GHQ Attack and Nuclear Security
    Jasbir Rakhra    ·   22 Oct, 2009    ·    #2986    ·    Commentary    
    The General Headquarters (GHQ) siege has proved that Pakistan is badly bruised because of the pillage caused by the nexus between Taliban, al Qaeda and the ‘Punjabis’. The threat is from every direction and the question is – Wh...
  • Land of Rising Sino-Indian Tension
    Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman    ·   15 Oct, 2009    ·    #2985    ·    Commentary    
    It was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who during his two day visit to Arunachal Pradesh in January 2008, referred to it as “our land of the rising sun,” saying in his speech to a rally in Itanagar, “the sun kisses India first in...
  • Socialist Vietnam Demands Market Economy Status
    Vibhanshu Shekhar    ·   13 Oct, 2009    ·    #2984    ·    Commentary    
    Amidst the euphoria over the ASEAN-India FTA, Vietnam’s refusal to sign the FTA was received with a great deal of surprise, especially among the advocates of the Look East Policy. Why would Vietnam, India’s strategic partner and one ...
  • The ‘Pause’ in India-Pakistan Dialogue
    Ali Ahmed    ·   13 Oct, 2009    ·    #2983    ·    Commentary    
    India-Pakistan relations are once again in a trough, perhaps this is fallout of the terror unleashed by the jihadis on 26/11. While cutting off of the dialogue can be seen as fallout of their action, persisting with the ‘pause’ has m...
  • Disarmament in South Asia
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   13 Oct, 2009    ·    #2982    ·    Commentary    
    President Obama chaired the UN Security Council meeting that resulted in Resolution 1887 calling on states to abide by obligations under NPT. This presumably includes those under Article VI regarding ‘negotiations in good faith on effectiv...
  • Aerial Support for Countering Naxals
    Radhakrishna Rao    ·   12 Oct, 2009    ·    #2981    ·    Commentary    
    India’s Home Minister P Chidambaram has made it plain that security forces would engage Naxalite groups till they abjure violence and surrender arms. Without divulging details of the proposed plan to involve the Indian Air Force (IAF) in t...
  • Pakistan’s Divide and Rule Policy in Gilgit-Baltistan
    Senge H. Sering    ·   09 Oct, 2009    ·    #2980    ·    Commentary    
    With an aim to annex the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Jammu & Kashmir, the Prime Minister of Pakistan recently announced the Empowerment and self-governance Presidential Ordinance 2009, which was rejected by the natives as it fails to grant th...
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