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  • Kargil: Echoes of Attacks against Minorities in Pakistan
    Zainab Akhter.    ·   16 Mar, 2013    ·    #3846    ·    Commentary    
    In Kargil, thousands of people took to the streets in February and participated in a protest rally against the killings of minorities across Pakistan (this time more specifically against the recent Hazara killings in Quetta). What are the reasons b ...
  • Iran and Nuclear Weapons: A New Agenda
    Manish.    ·   16 Feb, 2013    ·    #3818    ·    Commentary    
    Barely hours after reports of North Korea conducting its third nuclear test, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Ramin Mehmanparast, reportedly called upon the world powers to abolish nuclear weapons. He stated, “We need to come to the ...
  • Iran and Nuclear Weapons: New Negotiations, Old Issues?
    Shubhra Chaturvedi.    ·   16 Feb, 2013    ·    #3817    ·    Commentary    
    The announcement about the talks (at Kazakhstan in February 2013) between Iran and the six powers (US, UK, France, Germany, China and Russia), after an eight months break, is being seen as an optimistic breakthrough. What has changed since the last ...
  • Pakistan: Combating the TTP Through Reconciliation in Afghanistan
    Sander Ruben Aarten.    ·   14 Jan, 2013    ·    #3790    ·    Commentary    
    Reconciliation with the Taliban in Afghanistan has become a viable option ever since the Obama administration dramatically narrowed down the primary strategic objectives of the war to defeating the al Qaeda and breaking its ties with the Taliban. C ...
  • Af-Pak Diary: Are Regional Differences over Afghanistan Irreconcilable?
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   19 Dec, 2012    ·    #3780    ·    Commentary    
    An earlier commentary on this issue asked the following: can there be a region-led and region-owned solution for stability in Afghanistan? Can the stakeholders be brought together? For any regional initiative to achieve success in stabilising an ...
  • Indo-Iran Cooperation in Afghanistan: Potential and Problems
    Aryaman Bhatnagar.    ·   22 Aug, 2012    ·    #3707    ·    Commentary    
    India and Iran have contributed substantially to the development of Afghanistan post-2001 and have committed to further increase their involvement in the country in the future. Both countries have also collaborated with each other on a number of cr ...
  • Iran: Understanding the Policy towards Afghan Refugees
    Aryaman Bhatnagar.    ·   25 Jul, 2012    ·    #3683    ·    Commentary    
    Iran hosts close to 2.5 million Afghan refugees – both registered and unregistered. Iran recently announced its willingness to sign an agreement with Afghanistan and Pakistan which would put an end to the forceful deportation of Afghan refuge ...
  • Iran: Escalation Guaranteed
    Abhijit Iyer-Mitra.    ·   05 Jul, 2012    ·    #3667    ·    Commentary    
    The Moscow talks on Iran’s nuclear programme ended in deadlock – in a sense they had to. What was being offered to Iran in return for its compliance targets the symptoms but not the disease. Ground realities dictate that any ‘solu ...
  • Iran and Nuclear Enrichment: Are the Moscow Talks Just for Engagement?
    Shubhra Chaturvedi.    ·   04 Jul, 2012    ·    #3666    ·    Commentary    
    The recent talks between the P5+1 countries and Iran held at Moscow were being looked at as the much needed breakthrough in engagement with Iran. Since the ‘international community’ perceives nuclear Iran as a regional and global threat ...
  • NATO Chicago Summit: Assessing US-Pakistan Relations
    Priyakala Manoharan.    ·   22 Jun, 2012    ·    #3651    ·    Commentary    
    The effective transition of control of security from western forces to the Afghan National Security Forces and the long-term stability of Afghanistan were the top priorities at the NATO summit held in Chicago on 20-21 May 2012. The strained US-Paki ...
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