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  • After Osama - IV: What are the Global Implications?
    Siddharth Ramana    ·   03 May, 2011    ·    #3368    ·    Commentary    
    The death of bin Laden holds a significant impact for several states. This article seeks to briefly elucidate on three regions - the US, West Asia and Pakistan. The US was declared public enemy number one by bin Laden, owing to alleged insult...
  • After Osama - III: Is Pakistan’s Army on a Tighter Rope?
    Ali Ahmed    ·   03 May, 2011    ·    #3367    ·    Commentary    
    That a military operation by the US in the vicinity of military barracks has occurred to such effect as elimination of the world’s most wanted terrorist indicates either that the Pakistan Army was caught napping or was on board. If the for...
  • After Osama - II: Full Marks to President Obama?
    Ashok Bhan    ·   03 May, 2011    ·    #3366    ·    Commentary    
    The death of Osama bin Laden in a surgical operation carried out by the US Special Forces will be a subject of discussion among political and security analysts the world over for many weeks to come. However, the events leading to  this succ...
  • 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 b...
  • Pakistan's Strategic Stability
    PR Chari    ·   02 May, 2011    ·    #3364    ·    Commentary    
    No issue causes as much clamour in New Delhi’s seminar circuit as whether Pakistan is a failed or failing State or for that matter a ‘crisis’ State. Pakistan ranks tenth in the list of 177 countries comprising the Failed States...
  • 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 Minis...
  • The Sense in Networking with Kayani
    Ali Ahmed    ·   25 Apr, 2011    ·    #3362    ·    Commentary    
    The Prime Minister’s Office recently denied the authenticity of a report published in the Times from London, stating that the PM opened ‘secret’ talks with Pakistan’s army chief Gen. Kayani.  The report mentions that c...
  • Political Democracy for Tibetans: China’s Rising Dilemma
    Srikanth Kondapalli    ·   25 Apr, 2011    ·    #3361    ·    Commentary    
    Although the Dalai Lama had indicated his decision to devolve the “formal authority to an elected (Tibetan) leader” on several occasions earlier, however his statement on 10 March 2011 caught the Chinese leadership unawares. This sta...
  • Iran and Libya: Chasing the Bomb
    Ruhee Neog    ·   22 Apr, 2011    ·    #3360    ·    Commentary    
    A nuclear deliberations impasse between the P5+1 and Iran was reached in January of this year. Iran  has made its intentions evident. It will not abandon its nuclear programme, as demonstrated by its recent nuclear agreement with Zimba...
  • Sri Lanka’s post-war Foreign Policy Strategy: Europeans out and Chinese in?
    J Jeganaathan    ·   21 Apr, 2011    ·    #3359    ·    Commentary    
    As the US and its allies prepared to exit from Afghanistan after an unsuccessful military mission, Sri Lanka conspicuously etched a military triumph over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) shell-shocking the Tamils around the world. Alt...
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