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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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Af-Pak Diary: Kabul Conference and the Countdown to another Disaster
    D Suba Chandran    ·   21 Jul, 2010    ·    #3197    ·    Commentary    
    The much talked about Kabul Conference got over on 20 July 2010; three issues emerge clear. First, Karzai wants to take over the complete security of Afghanistan as early as possible, perhaps sooner than the international forces want to leave; s...
  • Iran-Turkey-Brazil Nuclear Agreement
    Siddharth Ramana    ·   21 Jul, 2010    ·    #3196    ·    Commentary    
    Turkey and Brazil in a meeting with Iranian President Ahmadinejad managed to secure an agreement which few international observers had thought would be possible. Prior to the meeting, leaders such as Russian President Dmitry Medvedev put the cha...
  • Jammu and Kashmir: Need for a Political Solution
    Firdaus Ahmed    ·   20 Jul, 2010    ·    #3195    ·    Commentary    
    Even as India was moving into a self-congratulatory mode in gaining the upper hand in Kashmir, the recent youth agitations reminded it that placing a military lid on the situation does not make it go away. This has been acknowledged by both the ...
  • Kashmir: A Case for Watershed Management?
    Pia Malhotra    ·   19 Jul, 2010    ·    #3194    ·    Commentary    
    The word “Srinagar” derives from the Sanskrit words ‘Sri’, meaning wealth and abundance and ‘Nagar’ meaning ‘city’. Srinagar for the ‘city of abundance’. With the recent spurt in violen...
  • Indus Waters Governance-II: From ‘Letter and Spirit’ to ‘Letter vs Spirit’
    D Suba Chandran    ·   19 Jul, 2010    ·    #3193    ·    Commentary    
    India and Pakistan signed a major treaty (Indus Waters Treaty) towards sharing the Indus river waters in 1960, and the four provinces of Pakistan signed an agreement (Inter-Provincial Water Apportionment Accord) in 1991 to share the waters withi...
  • Nepal and Maoists: Problems of a Consensus Government
    Padmaja Murthy    ·   19 Jul, 2010    ·    #3192    ·    Commentary    
    Nepal’s legislature parliament will elect a new Prime Minister on 21 July. The whole process began following the resignation on 30 June of Madhav Kumar Nepal, who was heading a CPN (UML) led coalition government. With his resignation, two ...
  • Indus Waters Governance-I: Crisis of Institutions
    D Suba Chandran    ·   15 Jul, 2010    ·    #3191    ·    Commentary    
    One of the primary problems in sharing waters has been the failure of institutions, especially those which are responsible for water governance in South Asia. Regarding the sharing of Indus Waters, besides the Indus Waters Commissions in India a...
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