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  • Intrusion in Ladakh: Warning from China
    Jayadeva Ranade    ·   30 Apr, 2013    ·    #3899    ·    Commentary    
    The 19-kilometres deep intrusion by an armed patrol of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) into the strategically sensitive area around Daulet Beg Oldi in the Aksai Chin region, and detected on 16 April 2013, has been unprovoked. ...
  • Pakistan Elections 2013: Women and the Youth
    Zainab Akhter    ·   30 Apr, 2013    ·    #3898    ·    Commentary    
    In Pakistan, the participation of women in politics is increasing in general but the presence of women in the political parties as well as in the political structure at the local, provincial, and national levels remains insignificant due to cult...
  • Carnegie Nuclear Policy Conference 2013: Deterrence and Disarmament
    PR Chari    ·   28 Apr, 2013    ·    #3897    ·    Commentary    
    Prague 2.0 is an evocative agenda item in which to situate the global issues arising from nuclear weapons, and embedded in arresting their proliferation and eliminating them, while ensuring conflict avoidance and prevention. Consequently, a plen...
  • India, Pakistan and the Nuclear Race: An Assessment
    Michael Krepon    ·   28 Apr, 2013    ·    #3896    ·    Commentary    
    Metaphors and analogies are useful literary devices to prompt reaction and discussion. My weak attempt to borrow Aesop’s fable about the tortoise and the hare, and to apply it to the nuclear competition on the subcontinent, seems to h...
  • Core, Periphery and Indian Foreign Policy: The growing divide between Delhi and sub-regions
    D Suba Chandran    ·   25 Apr, 2013    ·    #3895    ·    Commentary    
    During the recent months, the divide between New Delhi and Tamil Nadu was obvious over how both of them perceive the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka. Not long ago, Mamata Banerjee played a ...
  • Bhutan Elections 2013: A Difficult Road Ahead?
    Kunkhen Dorji    ·   24 Apr, 2013    ·    #3894    ·    Commentary    
    The upcoming general elections in Bhutan will see many new faces at the grass root level, but the same cannot be said about their party’s leadership who have served Bhutan in many distinguished fields. The Opposition are quite critical abo...
  • Boston Bombings: Lessons for India
    Ashok Bhan    ·   24 Apr, 2013    ·    #3893    ·    Commentary    
    Those who watched the footage of orderly public behavior and response of emergency services soon after the Boston marathon blasts will realize how much India has to learn as a society to respond to a terror attack. No crowding, no slogan shoutin...
  • India, Pakistan and the Nuclear Race: The Two Pots Down the Nuclear Stream
    Rabia Akhtar    ·   24 Apr, 2013    ·    #3892    ·    Commentary    
    Aesopian fables and their moral parallels in our everyday life are amusing. But anyone who believes that slow and steady wins the race, has never really won a race. Perhaps India and Pakistan as tortoise and hare respectively are not trying to &...
  • Special Commentary: Carnegie 2013 Nuclear Policy Conference
    Arun Vishwanathan    ·   23 Apr, 2013    ·    #3891    ·    Commentary    
    In the midst of the ‘proliferation’ of cherry blossoms in Washington DC, the 2013 Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference was held at the Ronald Reagan Building on April 8 and 9, 2013. The fifteenth annual international nucl...
  • Pakistan Elections 2013: Will things change?
    PR Chari    ·   22 Apr, 2013    ·    #3890    ·    Commentary    
    A week, Harold Wilson once famously said, is a long time in politics. May 11, when the next Pakistani general elections are scheduled, is three weeks away, but speculation about what will happen is rife amongst the concerned elite in Pakistan an...
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