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  • Q&A : Three New Militants Blacklisted by the UNSC
    Jeremie Lanche    ·   16 Jul, 2009    ·    #2909    ·    Commentary    
    The UN Security Council (UNSC) Al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee announced on 29 June the addition of three more names to its list of persons subject to assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo - Arif Qasmani, Mohammad Yahya Mujahid and...
  • Q&A : Hafiz Mohammad Saeed and Pakistani Legislation
    Jeremie Lanche and Kate Swanson    ·   16 Jul, 2009    ·    #2908    ·    Commentary    
    On 10 December 2008, the UN Security Council (UNSC) Al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee, added three more names to its list of individuals “subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set.” Among them was Hafiz Moh...
  • Reducing Strategic Arms : From Prague to L'Aquila via Moscow
    PR Chari    ·   16 Jul, 2009    ·    #2907    ·    Commentary    
    In Prague President Obama had pledged to move towards the ideal of reducing and eventually eliminating existing nuclear arsenals, an ideal enshrined in Article VI of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which envisages the cessation of the nuclea...
  • China’s Xinjiang Woes: Internal and External Implications
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   14 Jul, 2009    ·    #2906    ·    Commentary    
    The recent spate of ethnic violence between Uighurs and Hans in China should surprise no one, particularly after last year’s Tibetan riots. However, it should also surprise no one that the attention and opprobrium for China, particularly fro...
  • The Illogic of ‘Massive’ Punitive Retaliation
    Ali Ahmed    ·   14 Jul, 2009    ·    #2905    ·    Commentary    
    The latest CRS Report for the US Congress, ‘Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation and Security Issues’, estimates that there are plans to increase Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal beyond its estimated current holding of 60 we...
  • Xinjiang: China’s Achilles Heel
    Avinash Godbole    ·   14 Jul, 2009    ·    #2904    ·    Commentary    
    In yet another episode of ethnic violence in China, more than 180 people have died in the riots in the minority province of Xinjiang. The death toll is bound to rise as more than a hundred are critically injured according to the official media. Be...
  • Notions of Grievance and Jihadi Terrorism
    Sanjay Pulipaka    ·   14 Jul, 2009    ·    #2903    ·    Commentary    
    There seems to be growing eagerness among some members of the international community to solve the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan at the earliest. This eagerness purportedly stems from the belief that solving the Kashmir dispute will h...
  • Indo-Russian Defence Relations: On the Wane?
    Sanjeev Pillay    ·   14 Jul, 2009    ·    #2902    ·    Commentary    
    Is the present state of Indo-Russian ties a shadow of the height of mutual co-operation and friendship of the Soviet era?  Many have claimed it to be so. The Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation signed between India and the Soviet Union in 19...
  • What Did NPT PrepCom 2009 Bestow on India?
    Vidisha Shukla    ·   07 Jul, 2009    ·    #2901    ·    Commentary    
    Obama’s message to the third Session of the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference was delivered by his Assistant Secretary of State for verification, compliance and implementa...
  • 15th Lok Sabha's Verdict : Erosion of Naxal Base in Bihar
    Satish Kumar    ·   04 Jul, 2009    ·    #2900    ·    Commentary    
    The fifteenth Lok Sabha elections proved to be a trend setter in many ways, foremost being a clear mandate for political stability alongside a rejection of the bullet in favor of the ballot. In Bihar particularly, apart from the defeat of a majo...
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