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  • India's First Multilateral FTA: Lessons Learnt
    Vibhanshu Shekhar    ·   14 Sep, 2008    ·    #2679    ·    Commentary    
    After more than twenty meetings of the ASEAN-India Trade Negotiating Committee (AITNC) and four rounds of ASEAN-India Economic Ministers' meetings, India and ASEAN have finally agreed to kick start the FTA in goods. The ASEAN-India FTA in go...
  • Pakistan Again: Should India Stage a 'Walk Out'?
    Narendra Kumar Tripathi    ·   14 Sep, 2008    ·    #2678    ·    Commentary    
    India and Pakistan have been each other's 'enemy number one' for more than sixty years. Even though China did try to make an entry into this dyad in 1962, yet it effectively remained the 'other'. We are gradually coming to se...
  • A Roadmap for Kashmir
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   14 Sep, 2008    ·    #2677    ·    Commentary    
    The crisis having blown over, Kashmir is currently simmering. With the Hurriyat having tasted blood it is looking to exercise a spoilers' influence on the forthcoming elections to the state assembly. Both political parties, the PDP and the N...
  • The Berman Letter: Time for Creative Diplomacy
    Reshmi Kazi    ·   14 Sep, 2008    ·    #2676    ·    Commentary    
    The Indo-US civilian nuclear deal was subjected to a fresh round of controversy with the release of an eight-month old communication from the US State Department by Congressman Howard Berman. Berman, Chairman of the House of Representatives Fore...
  • The Kosi Deluge: A Lesson for Indian Diplomacy
    Medha Bisht    ·   14 Sep, 2008    ·    #2675    ·    Commentary    
    The year 2008, witnessed yet another disastrous flood in North Bihar. While the blame game between the politicians becomes evident as the issue is played out in the public domain, this verbal war is not a surprise to many. Floods in Bihar have b...
  • Pakistan: New President, Old Problems
    D Suba Chandran    ·   11 Sep, 2008    ·    #2674    ·    Commentary    
    Asif Ali Zardari is the new President, elected democratically by the Parliament. Unlike that of Musharraf's swearing in as President last year, Zardari's election has been widely celebrated by many inside Pakistan. However, the country&#...
  • Q&A: The NSG Waiver and the Next Steps
    Gretchen Smith    ·   10 Sep, 2008    ·    #2673    ·    Commentary    
    On 6 September 2008, the NSG lifted the embargo it placed on India and granted a waiver to conduct nuclear trade to a country that is not a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). This historic decision is being hailed as the en...
  • A Chinese Puzzle in Vienna
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   09 Sep, 2008    ·    #2672    ·    Commentary    
    With the India-specific waiver finally making its way through the Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG), the immediate focus of China watchers has been on interpreting the perceived Chinese opposition to the Indo-US nuclear deal at the NSG. While t...
  • The Nuclear Deal and India's Emergence
       ·   08 Sep, 2008    ·    #2671    ·    Commentary    
    When the history of modern India is written, the nuclear deal with the US in 2008 will be considered at par with India's economic liberalization of 1991. The first liberated India from the self imposed shackles of a socialist economy. The se...
  • 100 per cent FIR: Jalpaiguri Shows the Way
    Saumitra Mohan    ·   08 Sep, 2008    ·    #2670    ·    Commentary    
    Notwithstanding the recent police reforms executed at the instance of the Supreme Court of India, there is still a lot which need to be done to enable the police to carry out its duties and responsibilities with greater effectiveness and efficie...
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