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  • India Missing: The China-Myanmar-Bangladesh Triangle
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   14 Oct, 2006    ·    #2134    ·    Commentary    
    The month of July was notable in Sino-Indian relations for the reopening of the Nathu La on the Tibet-Sikkim border but the same month also saw the foreign ministers of China, Myanmar and Bangladesh meeting on the sidelines of the 13th ASEAN Reg...
  • Assam: Back to Square One
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   14 Oct, 2006    ·    #2133    ·    Commentary    
      In Assam, the ULFA has returned to arms again causing a breakdown in the ongoing peace talks. For the ULFA, the prospects for direct talks with the Government of India or the release of its top brass from prison, had not preven...
  • Afzal Guru: Hang me hang me not!
    Priyashree Andley    ·   14 Oct, 2006    ·    #2132    ·    Commentary    
    The Supreme Court judgment on the Parliament attack case of December 2001 acquitted S.A.R Geelani and Afsan Guru, while reducing Shaukut Hussain Guru's sentence. However, the High Court's decision to award a death sentence to Afzal Guru ...
  • North Korea's Nuclear Test: Implications for India
    Saroj Bishoyi    ·   13 Oct, 2006    ·    #2131    ·    Commentary    
      North Korea became the eighth country to announce it had conducted a nuclear explosive test on 9 October 2006. The official announcement asserts that the underground test was conducted with 100 per cent indigenous wisdom and t...
  • "No" Is Not Leadership: India and Non-Proliferation
    Alex Stolar    ·   13 Oct, 2006    ·    #2130    ·    Commentary    
    When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signed the nuclear deal statement he committed India to play a leading role in international non-proliferation efforts. Ask Indian strategists how they will honor this commitment and one gets diplomatic e...
  • Sri Lanka: Prospects of Proposed Talks in Geneva
    N Manoharan    ·   13 Oct, 2006    ·    #2129    ·    Commentary    
    Amidst intense fighting the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE have agreed for talks in Switzerland on 28-29 October 2006. While the government has placed a seven-point agenda, the LTTE has set a condition that military operations should stop ...
  • Japan: Does the new PM have new policies?
    Rukmani Gupta    ·   13 Oct, 2006    ·    #2128    ·    Commentary    
    Shinzo Abe's election as the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party after Koizumi's retirement and his subsequent appointment as the Prime Minister of Japan have generated much debate on the future course of Japanese policy - bot...
  • North Korea Goes Nuclear: Fallout Extends Far and Wide
    Jabin T Jacob    ·   13 Oct, 2006    ·    #2127    ·    Commentary    
      Yet another nation has gate-crashed the 'exclusive' nuclear club. North Korea's nuclear test will impinge on important bilateral relationships in Northeast Asia and affect popular perceptions of foreign and ...
  • Waziristan Accord: A Step in the Right Direction
       ·   07 Oct, 2006    ·    #2126    ·    Commentary    
    To date, no outside power in the world has been able to effectively deliver and tame the proud Afghans. It was the political genius of Muhammad Ali Jinnah which realised this fact and immediately went into an agreement with tribals on this side ...
  • Sri Lanka: The Way Forward
       ·   06 Oct, 2006    ·    #2125    ·    Commentary    
    (Report of the discussion held at the IPCS Conference Room on 26 September 2006. Mr. V Anandasangaree was the main speaker. The session was chaired by Dhirendra Singh.) Dipankar Banerjee Sri Lanka is a very valuable and important nei...
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