COMMENTARIES
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The 14th SAARC Summit: An Assessment
· 20 Apr, 2007 · #2270 · Commentary
Speakers:
Ambassador I P Khosla, Former Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh
Dr Amita Batra, Senior Fellow, Indian Council of Research in International Economics
IP Khosla
SAARC is based on an idea about regional cooperation that has m...
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Indo-US Nuclear Deal: Limping Along or Halting?
PR Chari · 18 Apr, 2007 · #2269 · Commentary
Cirrus Inc., a private Indian electronics firm has been indicted by the US Justice Department for exporting sensitive technologies from the United States to three Indian government entities over 2002-06. Apparently Cirrus Inc. supplied prohibite...
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India-Malaysia Strategic Dialogue
· 18 Apr, 2007 · #2268 · Commentary
Chair:
Ambassador P S Sahai, Former Indian Ambassador to Malaysia
Political Cooperation
Dato' Husni Zai Yaacob,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia
The year 2007 marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic
relation...
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Peace and Disarmament in Asia
· 17 Apr, 2007 · #2267 · Commentary
CPAPD
Delegation:
Mme. Cao Xiaobing, Advisor
Mr. Hou Hongyu, Director of Research
Jiang Ling, Assistant Research Fellow
Opening Remarks
Maj Gen (Retd.) Dipankar Banerjee
The
discussion over issues of nuclear disarmament in internatio...
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SAARC Expansion and China
Bhartendu Kumar Singh · 16 Apr, 2007 · #2266 · Commentary
The 14th Summit Meet of the SAARC countries held in New Delhi recently was important in many respects. For the first time since its inception in 1985, SAARC has added an additional member to its fraternity - Afghanistan. Also, for the first time...
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Is Musharraf Losing Control?
Gurmeet Kanwal · 14 Apr, 2007 · #2265 · Commentary
The Pakistani people are living through turbulent times and, General Musharraf, the self-styled President, is under tremendous pressure. The United States-led anti-terrorism campaign in Afghanistan has shaken Pakistan's polity like no other ...
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Tata Forays into Strategic Sectors of Southeast Asia
Pankaj Kumar Jha · 14 Apr, 2007 · #2264 · Commentary
The Tata group has set its sights on acquiring about 30 percent stake in two prominent thermal coal producers in Indonesia for US$1.1 billion. The two Indonesian coal companies are ranked among the three largest exporting coal mines in the world...
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Central Asia in Indo-Russian Geopolitical Calculations
Angira Sen Sarma · 13 Apr, 2007 · #2263 · Commentary
Since their independence in 1991, the five Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have become geo-strategically and geo-economically significant. The demise of the Soviet Union created a power ...
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India and Vietnam in Changing East Asia
· 13 Apr, 2007 · #2262 · Commentary
The
Southeast Asian and Southwest Pacific Studies Division in the Centre for South,
Central, South East Asian and South West Pacific Studies, (CSCSEASWPS)
School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University organized a roundtabl...
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SAARC Observer Status for Iran: Regional Implications
Satyajit Mohanty · 13 Apr, 2007 · #2261 · Commentary
One of the themes of the recently concluded fourteenth SAARC Summit was 'connectivity' and the unanimous decision to bestow Iran an observer status in SAARC to enhance South Asia's links with Iran. Iran has multiple linkages particul...
