COMMENTARIES
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Iran-Pakistan: Time for Realpolitik over Riyal Politics
Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy · 16 Apr, 2014 · #4391 · Commentary
Although the Jaish al-Adl (JA), a terrorist group that primarily operates from Pakistan’s Balochistan and Iran’s Sistan Baluchestan provinces, released four of the five Iranian border guards it had abducted and held captive in Pa...
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Is Bangladesh’s foreign policy becoming India and Russia-centric?
Harun ur Rashid · 15 Apr, 2014 · #4390 · Commentary
On 27 March, Bangladesh abstained from voting at the UN General Assembly resolution on Russia’s annexation of Crimea. While 100 countries voted in favour of the resolution, 11 opposed it. Bangladesh, alongside 57 others abstained, and even...
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Oman's Duqm Port and US Exit from Afghanistan
Vijay Sakhuja · 14 Apr, 2014 · #4389 · Commentary
The US is keenly following developments in Duqm, an Omani port overlooking the Indian Ocean, and a number of US defense, military and civilian personnel have visited Oman in this connection. British Royal Navy ships have called at Duqm, and in 2...
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Nuke Street
Iran Nuclear Deal: Regional Shadows
Sheel kant Sharma · 14 Apr, 2014 · #4388 · Commentary · Column
There are indications of further substantive progress in P5 plus Germany’s negotiations with Iran in the latest round in Vienna. Iran has shown readiness and given plans to change the design of the Arak research reactor to drastically reduce...
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Eagle Eye
US, Ukraine and the End of Unipolarity
Chintamani Mahapatra · 14 Apr, 2014 · #4387 · Commentary · Column
When Ukraine became a sovereign independent republic following the Soviet disintegration, a unipolar world order was born. Now with Crimea’s secession from Ukraine and the annexation to Russia, the death of the unipolar world seems certain...
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Dateline Islamabad
Elections in India and Afghanistan: Perspective from Pakistan
Salma Malik · 14 Apr, 2014 · #4386 · Commentary · Column
A recent trip to New Delhi brought forth some interesting trends and comparisons. Gripped with election fever, Indian voters appeared to be facing the same dilemma their Pakistani counterparts did a year ago. Reminiscent of the May 2013 Pakistan...
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The Strategist
MH370 and China's Anti-Access Area Denial Strategy
Vijay Shankar · 14 Apr, 2014 · #4385 · Commentary · Column
fThe mystery of the missing Malaysian Airlines MH 370 continues to confound. Was it a sudden catastrophic end to an ill-fated flight or was it a failure of surveillance that led to a controlled and purposeful disappearance of a marked commercial...
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IPCS Discussion
Talks with the Taliban: Endgame for the Military, Political Parties and the TTP in Pakistan
Report · 11 Apr, 2014 · #4384 · Commentary
The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) organised a panel discussion on the talks between the government in Pakistan and the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The discussion took place at the IPCS Conference Room, with pa...
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IPCS Discussion
Trends in Federalism and Foreign Policy: The Centre-State Debate
Report · 11 Apr, 2014 · #4383 · Commentary
Prof Onkar Marwah
Distinguished Fellow, IPCS
Today, a number of states of India have become more powerful than they were fifty years ago. This has happened because either the central government has weakened or the states have become more pow...
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Himalayan Frontier
Nepal's Restful Prime Minister
Pramod Jaiswal · 07 Apr, 2014 · #4382 · Commentary · Column
It has been over two months since Sushil Koirala took office as the Prime Minister’s of Nepal. In last two months, Koirala promoted six joint secretaries to secretaries and appointed Damodar Prasad Sharma as the new Chief Justice of the Su...
