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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 ...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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 ...
  • 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...
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