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  • 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...
  • Future Conflict Scenarios
    Gurmeet Kanwal    ·   04 Jan, 2010    ·    #3036    ·    Commentary    
    Though the year 2009 witnessed marginal improvement in India’s external security environment, internal security continued to deteriorate in view of the heightened activities of the Maoist-Naxalite terrorists. The unstable regional security...
  • Cambodia-China Relations and Recent Developments
    Tuli Sinha    ·   31 Dec, 2009    ·    #3035    ·    Commentary    
    Recently, Cambodia's decision to deport asylum seekers, who were in the process of applying for refugee status at the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is a reminder that Beijing's oppression of the Uig...
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