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  • Pugwash Kashmir Initiative: A Review
       ·   07 Aug, 2007    ·    #2351    ·    Commentary    
    The Pugwash meeting on Kashmir held on 22-23 July in Colombo has once again reiterated that violence should be shunned in seeking to resolve the Kashmir issue. The meeting was attended by representatives of all the major political formations fro...
  • Pressure Politics: Quandary for Non-Local Labour in Kashmir
    Priyashree Andley    ·   07 Aug, 2007    ·    #2350    ·    Commentary    
    On 24 July, when the J&K police found two non-local labourers involved in the rape and killing of a 14-year old girl in Langate village in Kupwara, Syed Geelani, Chairman Hurriyat Conference (G), came out with a call asking all non-state lab...
  • The Indian Diaspora as a Factor in India-Malaysia Relations
    Amit Singh    ·   07 Aug, 2007    ·    #2349    ·    Commentary    
    The Indian diaspora has emerged as one of the largest in today's globalized world. There are more than 20 million persons of Indian origin (PIOs) and some 6 million Non-Resident Indians (NRI) spread over 136 countries. The Indian diaspora co...
  • Negotiating with the Terai groups
    P G Rajamohan    ·   04 Aug, 2007    ·    #2348    ·    Commentary    
    While the elections to Nepal's Constituent Assembly (CA) are slated for 22 November, the deteriorating security situation threatens the possibility of holding them on the stipulated date. Now, the entire attention on Nepal is focused on the ...
  • India in Central Asia: The Farkhor Airbase in Tajikistan
    Swapna Kona    ·   04 Aug, 2007    ·    #2347    ·    Commentary    
    The Farkhor airbase located about 80 miles south of the Tajik capital of Dushanbe, has recently received international attention. The airbase, strategically situated adjoining the Tajik-Afghan border, is important for Tajikistan especially in th...
  • Naxalism and Internal Security in India
       ·   04 Aug, 2007    ·    #2346    ·    Commentary    
    Report of Seminar held at the IPCS Conference Room on 24 July 2007 Chair: Mr P R Chari, Research Professor, IPCS Panelists: Mr Dhirendra Singh, Former Home Secretary, Government of India Prof Nandini Sunder, Delhi School of Economics Dr ...
  • India's Joint Naval Exercises in the ASEAN Region
    Anushree Bhattacharya    ·   03 Aug, 2007    ·    #2345    ·    Commentary    
    Inheritors of a rich maritime past, India and the ASEAN region have had formidable maritime relations since the earliest times. As they entered the twenty-first century, both began to look for greater maritime cooperation with each other. Severa...
  • ASEAN Charter: Opening a Pandora's Box?
    DA Wiwik Dharmiasih    ·   03 Aug, 2007    ·    #2344    ·    Commentary    
    Ever since its formation at the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur in December 2005, the Eminent Persons' Group (EPG) has been grappling with the task of transforming an informal, consensus-based and non-interfering ASEAN into a formalized, rule-b...
  • Beyond the Nuclear Deal: India, China and the Asian Balance of Power
    Bhartendu Kumar Singh    ·   31 Jul, 2007    ·    #2343    ·    Commentary    
    First, it was the statement by the US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice that India should abandon its association with the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and openly ally with the US that caused ripples among strategic experts. Now it is the Indo-...
  • ULFA and the Changing Demographic Face of Assam
    Arjun Nair    ·   30 Jul, 2007    ·    #2342    ·    Commentary    
    The situation in Assam has once again caught the attention of the public eye with a series of attacks and abductions, beginning in January 2007 and intensifying in May, resulting in the deaths of over a hundred innocent civilians and leaving hun...
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