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  • “Kashmiri Goods Ought to Reach Rawalpindi and Karachi”: Abdul Hameed Punjabi
    Nadir Ali    ·   30 Dec, 2010    ·    #3308    ·    Commentary    
    Nadir Ali: What is your assessment of intra-Kashmir trade over the last two years? What is the estimated worth of daily transactions? Abdul Hameed Punjabi: We have an unofficial graph according to which the estimated value of trade is around...
  • “Remittance is the Way Forward for Cross-LoC Trade”: Shakeel Qalander
    Nadir Ali    ·   30 Dec, 2010    ·    #3307    ·    Commentary    
    Nadir Ali: What is your assessment of the cross-LoC trade over the last two years? What are the problems and prospects associated with this trade? Shakeel Qalander: Cross-LOC trade was initiated as a Confidence Building Measure (CBM) in 2008, w...
  • Sino-Pak Nuclear Engagement-IV: What Can India Do?
    Siddharth Ramana    ·   29 Dec, 2010    ·    #3306    ·    Commentary    
    The writing on the wall seems clear: Despite initial international opposition, the ‘grandfathered’ nuclear agreement between China and Pakistan will not result in any sanctions against either party. India must reconcile itself to hav...
  • Sino-Pak Nuclear Engagement-III: Strategic Implications
    Ruhee Neog    ·   29 Dec, 2010    ·    #3305    ·    Commentary    
    The Sino-Pak nuclear agreement to build two nuclear reactors in Pakistan, reports of which surfaced earlier this year, was followed by much analysis and debate. The Chinese Premier’s recently concluded trip to Pakistan, where no mention wa...
  • Sino-Pak Nuclear Engagement-II: Where Does the US Stand?
    Lydia Walker    ·   29 Dec, 2010    ·    #3304    ·    Commentary    
    In 2008, Anne Patterson, the US Ambassador to Pakistan cabled  Washington that "our major concern is not having an Islamic militant steal an entire weapon but rather the chance someone working in government of Pakistan facilities could...
  • Sino-Pak Nuclear Engagement -I: The Big ‘Deal’
       ·   29 Dec, 2010    ·    #3303    ·    Commentary    
    The Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to Pakistan this December stirred no action on the issue most in the international community awaited - the China-Pakistan Civil Nuclear Deal. The buzz kick started two years ago and the deal was signe...
  • 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 reexa...
  • 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 ...
  • Games Nations Play: China and North Korea
    Ruhee Neog    ·   21 Dec, 2010    ·    #3300    ·    Commentary    
    Strategic analysis is only as good as the data it is based on, and the informational black hole that is North Korea makes it a dangerous and unpredictable player on the global stage. Alongside it stands China, North Korea’s most significan...
  • 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, &ldquo...
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