COMMENTARIES
-
Hasina's Visit: Nothing Concrete on Burning Issues
Harun ur Rashid · 18 Jan, 2010 · #3046 · Commentary
Sheikh Hasina’s visit to India has opened a new chapter of relations between the two countries. The 51-paragraph joint communiqué describes the aspirations, intentions and actions on all possible bilateral issues, the solutions to w...
-
Chinese Naval Ambitions – Concern for India?
Kriti Singh · 18 Jan, 2010 · #3045 · Commentary
As Chinese interests continue to amplify, China is reaching out to upgrade its ability to protect its interests beyond the Great Wall. Last year witnessed a three dimensional approach from Beijing to increase its area of influence across land, i...
-
North Korean Nuclear Issue: The Road Ahead
Jasbir Rakhra · 15 Jan, 2010 · #3044 · Commentary
North Korea made a surprising peace pledge this year. Kim Jong Il’s new year resolution is to create a nuclear-free Korean peninsula. The statement has brought new hopes for the daunting task of denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Al...
-
Nepal: Preventing a Flare-Up
Nishchal N Pandey · 13 Jan, 2010 · #3043 · Commentary
Nepal has receded from the headlines since the holding of the Constituent Assembly elections in April 2008. The political situation has since changed for the worse and public euphoria has become subdued. Much of this is the result of the poor pe...
-
Resolving Balochistan: Issues for Islamabad –II
Syed Moazzam Hashmi · 11 Jan, 2010 · #3042 · Commentary
Compressed under the rising demands of the New Great Game, players in the region want to have an open corridor, particularly for oil and gas exploits from Central Independent States to the warm waters of Arabian Sea. Former President Pervez Mush...
-
Resolving Balochistan: Issues for Islamabad -I
Syed Moazzam Hashmi · 11 Jan, 2010 · #3041 · Commentary
The “Balochistan Package” seems to have turned the heat on rather than meeting the aimed target of diffusing it. Newly empowered media provided the platform to spread the sentiments of Baloch nationalist leaders sparking a debate, wh...
-
China's Afghanistan Policy
Gunjan Singh · 11 Jan, 2010 · #3040 · Commentary
One of the major debates today in world politics is the increasing role which the United States is assigning to China in South Asia. After Obama’s visit to Beijing this was one point of contention in the flourishing Indo-US relations. Rece...
-
Hasina's India Visit
Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury · 08 Jan, 2010 · #3039 · Commentary
The forthcoming visit in January to India of Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be keenly watched. It has been a long awaited visit, as she has already been in office for a year. She has been circumspect in not rushing, at the ...
-
Will India Prepare For Space War?
Radhakrishna Rao · 07 Jan, 2010 · #3038 · Commentary
If the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has its way, India would soon edge closer to preparing the ground for entering the domain of space war. The statement made by VK Saraswat, scientific advisor to the Indian d...
-
Politics, Accord and Steps Towards a Better Tomorrow
Ashok Sharma · 05 Jan, 2010 · #3037 · Commentary
On 19 December at the Copenhagen climate summit, representatives of 192 nations struck a historic accord on the common goal of reducing global warming by two degrees. The tedious, politically maneuvered marathon summit of world leaders culminate...
