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  • Balancing Malaysia, Malaysian Indians and Tamil Nadu
    Vibhanshu Shekhar    ·   30 Jan, 2008    ·    #2477    ·    Commentary    
    On 25 November 2007, the Hindu Rights Action Front (HINDRAF) led a demonstration of more than ten thousand people in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia against the poor economic condition, religious discrimination, political marginalization, and lack of edu...
  • Maoists Intrude into Uttarakhand
    Maitreya Buddha Samantaray    ·   30 Jan, 2008    ·    #2476    ·    Commentary    
    There is a rising concern among the security agencies, intelligentsia and civil society bodies over the Maoists' intention to include the hill state of Uttarakhand as part of their 'Red Corridor', linking it to Nepal. There have been...
  • Benazir Bhutto's Assassination and the American Elections
    Avinash Godbole    ·   25 Jan, 2008    ·    #2475    ·    Commentary    
    Benazir's assassination is widely considered to be a serious jolt to democratization in Pakistan and a worrying factor for regional stability and security. At the same time, this tragic event is casting its shadow over the presidential polls...
  • Northeast India's Border Roads
    Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman    ·   14 Jan, 2008    ·    #2474    ·    Commentary    
    It was the war with China in 1962 that made India wake up and take notice of the significance of its Northeast as a critical frontier in its national security calculations. Chinese troops had advanced down to the Brahmaputra Valley and India was...
  • The Kunming Initiative: Going Beyond Governmental Reluctance
    Julien Levesque    ·   14 Jan, 2008    ·    #2473    ·    Commentary    
    The Kunming Initiative, a Track II sub-regional organization that includes Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar (BCIM), was born out of the attempts to link the development plans of the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan to India's Look...
  • The Indian Prime Minister's Visit to China
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   14 Jan, 2008    ·    #2472    ·    Commentary    
    While bilateral relations between many rising powers have been conflictual, India and China stand as exceptions. Not only have the two countries managed their relations with each other and ensured peace on the unresolved border, they have also g...
  • Recognition of Kosovo's Unilateral Secession: A Dangerous Precedent
       ·   14 Jan, 2008    ·    #2471    ·    Commentary    
    Report of IPCS Seminar held on 10 January 2008 Speaker: Alan J. Kuperman Assistant Professor of Public Affairs University of Texas at Austin The attempt here is not only to analyze the causes of the present situation in Kososvo, ...
  • Time to Revive India-Iran Relations
    M Shamsur Rabb Khan    ·   14 Jan, 2008    ·    #2470    ·    Commentary    
    The US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) recently reported that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003. This not only shifts the ground on which India erected its policy of distance from Teheran when it voted with the US agains...
  • Benazir's Assassination and the Future of Pakistan
    PR Chari    ·   14 Jan, 2008    ·    #2469    ·    Commentary    
    Munir Ahmed Khan, former Chairman of Pakistan's Atomic Energy Commission, had a unique explanation for why Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was hanged. "Not for the reasons people keep talking about," he said, "but because he stopped being...
  • Is the US pursuing a Flawed Policy towards Pakistan?
    Harun ur Rashid    ·   14 Jan, 2008    ·    #2468    ·    Commentary    
    In May 1991, while campaigning for another shot at the top political job, the former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi, was assassinated by a suicide bomber, and there was an international outpouring of grief. Similarly, in recent weeks, the...
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