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Three Years of the Modi Government
Jammu & Kashmir Policy: Innovative Solutions Needed
Sarral Sharma. · 17 Jul, 2017 · #5327 · Commentary
Since 2014, New Delhi’s policy vis-à-vis Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has broadly been a combination of tough approach towards separatist elements; reliance on mainstream politics; and keeping Kashmir out of the India-Pakistan bilateral ...
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Global Warming-Induced Migration: An International Convention Needed
John Schabedoth. · 14 Jul, 2017 · #5326 · Commentary
In recent years, reports on the first global warming-induced migration into New Zealand have accumulated. Two of the most prominent cases involved concerned nationals of the island states of Kiribati and Tuvalu applying for refugee status in New Ze ...
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NSG Membership: Pakistan's Past and Nuclear South Asia's Future
Allyson Rimmer. · 28 Jun, 2017 · #5313 · Commentary
Since 2016, India and Pakistan have both lobbied for comprehensive membership to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) without success. Key parties like China have called for bilateral entrance for both India and Pakistan or none at all. While China fe ...
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The ISI and Kulbhushan Jadhav's Second “Confessionâ€
Rana Banerji. · 03 Jul, 2017 · #5316 · Commentary
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) seems to have gone into overdrive releasing Kulbhushan Jadhav’s second “confession” on 22 June. The main aim was perhaps to strengthen its case before the International Court of J ...
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Evolving Situation in J&K: Summer 2017 (Part II)
Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain. · 16 Jun, 2017 · #5299 · Commentary
Amarnath Yatra is a worrisome event from a security point of view because the mileage gained by terrorists and its implications can both be immense. Hence the need to over insure that both routes, the Pahalgam and Baltal ones, be secured each by su ...
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Three Years of the Modi Government
India-Pakistan: Three Years of Wasted Effort?
Rana Banerji. · 09 Jun, 2017 · #5293 · Commentary
Despite flash in the pan initiatives like the May 2014 invitation to SAARC heads of government at its inauguration and the `out of the box’ Lahore visit in December 2015, the incumbent Indian government’s relations with Pakistan remain ...
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J&K Focus
Evolving Situation in J&K: Summer 2017 (Part I)
Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain. · 07 Jun, 2017 · #5292 · Commentary
Since
the turn of the millennium, most military experts have advised the Indian government
and the Indian Army to view J&K related issues with a
longer and wider perspective. The longer perspective is needed because the year-on-year
review ...
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The Strategist
The Value of a Declared No First Use Nuclear Policy
Vijay Shankar. · 01 May, 2017 · #5278 · Commentary
"Can it be a nation’s case to destroy the very purpose that polity sets out to attain; or as Milton put it “Our Cure, To Be No More; Sad Cure!”
The sensibility of negotiated agreements to assuage friction between nation ...
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IPCS Discussion
Lok Sabha By-polls: Reading Jammu and Kashmir
Report. · 27 Apr, 2017 · #5276 · Commentary
On 18 April 2017, Dr Ashok Bhan, Distinguished Fellow, IPCS; former Director General of Police, J&K; former Member, National Security Advisory Board (NSAB), delivered his remarks on the Lok Sabha By-Polls in Jammu and Kashmir, in the IPCS Confe ...
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Pakistan and the Panama Papers Verdict
Rana Banerji. · 21 Apr, 2017 · #5275 · Commentary
The long awaited Panama Papers verdict on 20 April, 2017, by the five-judge bench of Pakistan's Supreme Court has stopped short of disqualifying Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and given him a temporary reprieve by ordering investigation by a Joint ...
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