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  • After Osama - I: How will this Affect India?
    Radha Vinod Raju.    ·   03 May, 2011    ·    #3365    ·    Commentary    
    The US has finally succeeded in neutralizing Osama bin Laden, deep inside Pakistan and not in the badlands of Waziristan on the Af-Pak border. Indian security experts have long maintained that Osama would be found inside Pakistan, and have now been ...
  • Engaging the Pakistani Military: India’s Gains
    Arun Sahgal.    ·   26 Apr, 2011    ·    #3363    ·    Commentary    
    The London Times report on secret parleys between the Indian Prime Minister’s special non-official interlocutor and Gen. Pervez Kayani has created a buzz in New Delhi. It holds immense significance coming in the backdrop of the Prime Minister ...
  • Can the Taliban be convinced to renounce al Qaeda?
    Radha Vinod Raju.    ·   23 Feb, 2011    ·    #3335    ·    Commentary    
    Two scholars of the New York University, Alex Strick van Linshoten and Felix Kuehn, who have spent years in Afghanistan, have come out with a report  that the Taliban has been wrongly perceived as ideological ally of al Qaeda, and that the gue ...
  • Sri Lanka and Iran: The 2030 Nuclear Power Plant and Iranian Support
    Lydia Walker.    ·   11 Feb, 2011    ·    #3331    ·    Commentary    
    In September, Sri Lanka announced its plan to build its first nuclear power plant within the next 20 years. The Sri Lankan Secretary of the Ministry of Power and Energy said that they would get safety approval from the International Atomic Energy A ...
  • Obama’s Annual Af-Pak Review: Need for a Reappraisal
    Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Dipankar Banerjee.    ·   03 Jan, 2011    ·    #3309    ·    Commentary    
    President Barrack Obama released another review of the Af-Pak situation on 16 Dec 2010. Weeks in formulation and after careful deliberations by top officials, the summary still leaves too many questions unanswered. Unlike the Bruce Riedel report of ...
  • Obama’s Afghanistan Review: A Perspective from Pakistan
    Shabana Fayyaz.    ·   23 Dec, 2010    ·    #3302    ·    Commentary    
    The recently launched so-called Annual Review of the US strategic assessment of the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan leaves more questions than answers to the complexity on the ground. Theoretically, policy review implies rethinking and reexamin ...
  • Af-Pak Diary: A Critique of the Blackwill Plan to Partition Afghanistan
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   23 Dec, 2010    ·    #3301    ·    Commentary    
    In an article published in the Times of India, titled ‘Plan B in Afghanistan’, Ambassador Robert Blackwill concludes, “Accepting the de facto partition of Afghanistan is hardly an ideal outcome in Afghanistan. But it is better tha ...
  • Af-Pak Diary: Obama’s Afghanistan Review
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   21 Dec, 2010    ·    #3299    ·    Commentary    
    The much expected Afghanistan Review by Obama’s administration was finally made public during the third week of December 2010. What does this review say about Obama’s policies and strategies towards Afghanistan? Obama said, “It ...
  • Af-Pak Diary: Obama’s Afghanistan Review
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   21 Dec, 2010    ·    #3299    ·    Commentary    
    The much expected Afghanistan Review by Obama’s administration was finally made public during the third week of December 2010. What does this review say about Obama’s policies and strategies towards Afghanistan? Obama said, “It ...
  • Afghanistan 2014: Symbolic End Date as Strategic Signpost
    Lydia Walker.    ·   01 Dec, 2010    ·    #3286    ·    Commentary    
    For Afghanistan, a long-term solution needs a short-term operational strategy for sustenance.  Recently, at Lisbon, NATO insisted and the US conceded to a new date to exit from Afghanistan – 2014. These fluctuating end dates loom over an ...
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