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  • Third Round Table Conference: Publicity Stunt or Towards Peace?
    Priyashree Andley    ·   24 Apr, 2007    ·    #2275    ·    Commentary    
    The third Round Table Conference (RTC) on Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) will be held in New Delhi on 24 April 2007. Ghulam Nabi Azad, Chief Minister, J&K, announced the date after a meeting with the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh and the Home ...
  • Current Situation in Afghanistan: A Review
       ·   23 Apr, 2007    ·    #2274    ·    Commentary    
    Speaker: Col. Donald Dixon, Commander of the Canadian Strategic Advisory Team for Afghanistan The Strategic Advisory Team (SAT) is approaching two years of service aiding the President of Afghanistan. SAT consists of sixteen men and wom...
  • Tackling Intervention in South Asia
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   23 Apr, 2007    ·    #2273    ·    Commentary    
    Intervention by states in each other's internal affairs was highlighted in Rahul Gandhi's inadvertent electioneering remarks on his family's role in splitting Pakistan, which has, unsurprisingly, stirred controversy both internally i...
  • Politico-military Developments in Afghanistan: Impact on Security
    Vinod Anand    ·   23 Apr, 2007    ·    #2272    ·    Commentary    
    With the formation of the Jabha-i-Mili or National Front and a change in Taliban's strategy, the situation in Afghanistan has suddenly turned fluid. Its potential for creating further trouble for the embattled Hamid Karzai is considerable as...
  • From CRZ to SEZ: Naxal Reins of Terror
    Rajat Kumar Kujur    ·   21 Apr, 2007    ·    #2271    ·    Commentary    
    It was in August 2001 that the idea of establishing a Compact Revolutionary Zone (CRZ), from the forest tracts of Adilabad (Andhra Pradesh) to Nepal, traversing the forest areas of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar, was conceptualiz...
  • The 14th SAARC Summit: An Assessment
       ·   20 Apr, 2007    ·    #2270    ·    Commentary    
    Speakers: Ambassador I P Khosla, Former Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Dr Amita Batra, Senior Fellow, Indian Council of Research in International Economics IP Khosla SAARC is based on an idea about regional cooperation that has m...
  • Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Limping Along or Halting?
    PR Chari    ·   18 Apr, 2007    ·    #2269    ·    Commentary    
    Cirrus Inc., a private Indian electronics firm has been indicted by the US Justice Department for exporting sensitive technologies from the United States to three Indian government entities over 2002-06. Apparently Cirrus Inc. supplied prohibite...
  • India-Malaysia Strategic Dialogue
       ·   18 Apr, 2007    ·    #2268    ·    Commentary    
    Chair: Ambassador P S Sahai, Former Indian Ambassador to Malaysia Political Cooperation Dato' Husni Zai Yaacob, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia The year 2007 marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relation...
  • Peace and Disarmament in Asia
       ·   17 Apr, 2007    ·    #2267    ·    Commentary    
    CPAPD Delegation: Mme. Cao Xiaobing, Advisor Mr. Hou Hongyu, Director of Research Jiang Ling, Assistant Research Fellow Opening Remarks Maj Gen (Retd.) Dipankar Banerjee The discussion over issues of nuclear disarmament in internatio...
  • SAARC Expansion and China
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   16 Apr, 2007    ·    #2266    ·    Commentary    
    The 14th Summit Meet of the SAARC countries held in New Delhi recently was important in many respects. For the first time since its inception in 1985, SAARC has added an additional member to its fraternity - Afghanistan. Also, for the first time...
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