COMMENTARIES
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Pranab Mukherjee’s visit to Dhaka: Towards Greater Integration?
Harun ur Rashid · 10 Aug, 2010 · #3208 · Commentary
The publicly-stated purpose of India’s Minister for Finance, Pranab Mukherjee’s visit to Dhaka on 7 August 2010 for about six hours is to witness the signing of the US$1 billion loan agreement to Bangladesh for 14 projects related to i...
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Sri Lanka: UN Panel and Sovereignty Issues
N Manoharan · 10 Aug, 2010 · #3207 · Commentary
The appointment of a panel of experts by the UN Secretary General to look at accountability issues relating to human rights violations during the last stages of Eelam War IV in Sri Lanka in 2009 triggered protests in Sri Lanka against the United...
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Af-Pak Diary: India’s Options after the Kabul Conference
D Suba Chandran · 09 Aug, 2010 · #3206 · Commentary
Nearly two weeks after the Kabul conference, which witnessed 70 plus countries taking part along with Hillary Clinton and Ban-ki Moon, the UN Secretary General, the end game is getting clearer. There seems to be a consensus at the international ...
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Kashmir on the Brink?
Mohammad Ashraf · 09 Aug, 2010 · #3205 · Commentary
In the 63 years of Kashmir’s association with India, there have been many agitations and upheavals. However, the scale, the sentiment, the emotions, and the total involvement of the population seen at present are unprecedented. A strange f...
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The McChrystal Episode: Fallouts of Embedded Reporting
SK Chatterji · 06 Aug, 2010 · #3203 · Commentary
General Stanley Allen McChrystal is back home. Al Qaeda barons are raising their arms, palms open and turned upwards to thank the Lord. The web site of Rolling Stones might have felt a load of traffic that it has rarely experienced. But along wi...
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Turkistan Islamic Party: Chasing a Relinquished Dream?
Bhavna Singh · 04 Aug, 2010 · #3202 · Commentary
With the demise of Abdul Haq al Turkistani, the leader of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) based at Waziristan tendered to claim its legacy. It managed to gain attention of the Chinese authorities and...
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The Kabul Conference: A Fruitless Exercise?
Pallavi Kumar · 30 Jul, 2010 · #3201 · Commentary
The plane carrying UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon to the Kabul Conference last Tuesday had to be diverted to Bagram Air Base from Kabul Airport, due to rocket fire. The 70 countries, organizations, and groups attending this conference cannot ...
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General Kayani: Implications of Extension
Ali Ahmed · 23 Jul, 2010 · #3200 · Commentary
The ‘great man’ school of history would not consider it amiss that General Kayani has got his long-expected extension as Pakistan Army Chief for another three years. Continuity in the appointment, critical to the culminating war in t...
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Meeting the Naxal Challenge: Dialogue between the Union Government and the States
Sean Angiolillo · 22 Jul, 2010 · #3199 · Commentary
In the wake of continued Naxalite violence, the Centre’s latest meeting with the Chief Ministers of Naxal-affected states on 14 July sought to review current strategy, with special attention given to increasing inter-state coordination. Wh...
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Indus Waters Governance-III: Keep the IWT away from the Composite Dialogue
D Suba Chandran · 22 Jul, 2010 · #3198 · Commentary
During the recent months, there has been an increasingly shrill noise from Islamabad vis-à-vis the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), in terms of India violating the treaty. See ‘Pakistan and the Indus: The Blame India Project’, 21 Ju...
