COMMENTARIES
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Sino-Indian Anti-Terror Cooperation: Contradictions Aplenty
Jabin T Jacob · 13 Feb, 2009 · #2809 · Commentary
Sino-Indian relations need confidence-building measures but they also need to be carefully thought through before being negotiated. One such measure is the joint anti-terror exercises begun in December 2007 in China’s Yunnan province, and ...
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Role of Private Sector in Preventing Terror Attacks
M Shamsur Rabb Khan · 13 Feb, 2009 · #2808 · Commentary
The looming dangers of terror attacks in India after the Mumbai carnage last November has generated a greater need for involving the private sector in preventing terrorism, since government programs and strategies are unable to prevent and deal ef...
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Post-Mumbai: The Great Game Continues
Vinod Anand · 12 Feb, 2009 · #2807 · Commentary
The “Grand Bargain” propounded by Barnett Rubin and Rashid Ahmed in the in the Foreign Affairs issue of November/December 2008 is meant to resolve the situation in Afghanistan by involving the key South Asian stakeholders to cooperate ...
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Notorious “Golden Triangle”: India’s Golden Opportunity?
Atom Sunil Singh · 11 Feb, 2009 · #2806 · Commentary
The Golden Triangle is an area of around 350,000 sq. kms. that overlaps the mountain regions of Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Yunnan Province of China. The Golden Triangle is infamous for being one of the most extensive opium-producing area...
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Bangladesh-India Maritime Boundary
Harun ur Rashid · 11 Feb, 2009 · #2805 · Commentary
The Bangladesh-India maritime boundary has been pending since 1974. Since the waters are not delimited in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh cannot explore and exploit certain areas because they are disputed. No foreign company would be willing to expl...
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India and the US in the Greater Middle East
Rekha Chakravarthi · 11 Feb, 2009 · #2804 · Commentary
Report of the IPCS Seminar held on 2 February 2009
Chair: PR Chari, Research Professor, IPCS
Speaker: Amb. Teresita Schaffer, Director, South Asia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Ambassador Teresita Scha...
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Bangladesh Elections and the Future of Indo-Bangladesh Relations
Sandeep Bhardwaj · 11 Feb, 2009 · #2803 · Commentary
Report of the IPCS Seminar held on 21 January 2009
Chair: Maj. Gen. (retd.) Dipankar Banerjee, IPCS
Speaker: Maj. Gen. (retd.) ANM Muniruzzaman, President, Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies, Dhaka
Dipankar Banerjee&nb...
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Lessons from Lankan Military Successes
Sripathi Naryanan · 09 Feb, 2009 · #2802 · Commentary
On 2 January, Sri Lankan armed forces stormed into the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s (LTTE) de-facto capital of Killinochi. This was soon followed by the recapture of another district town, Mullaitivu, in the Tamil-majority Northern Pro...
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Naxal Attack in Gadchiroli: A Sign of Strength or Weakness?
Devyani Srivastava · 09 Feb, 2009 · #2801 · Commentary
In a massive setback to the Maharashtra government’s counter-Naxal campaign, particularly in its eastern belt, a group of over 150 Naxals laid an ambush on a police party near the Markegaon village in Gadchiroli district bordering Chhattisga...
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China and Pakistan: Relationship in a Bottle
Siddharth Ramana · 09 Feb, 2009 · #2800 · Commentary
The recent remark by Pakistan Foreign Minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, that Pakistan had given the Chinese special envoy He Yafei a “blank cheque” in representing Pakistan in discussions with India can be viewed from multiple perspectiv...
