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  • China's Growing Influence in Sri Lanka: Implications for India
       ·   26 Jul, 2006    ·    #2079    ·    Commentary    
    China is determined to enhance its strategic and economic cooperation with India's neighbours and in areas traditionally under India's influence. After Pakistan, Myanmar and Bangladesh, China is getting closer with Sri Lanka. Its recent ...
  • The Poonch-Rawalkote Bus and Increasing Militant Attacks: What Next?
    Priyashree Andley    ·   20 Jul, 2006    ·    #2078    ·    Commentary    
    Sonia Gandhi and Pranab Mukherjee flagged off the first Poonch-Rawalkote bus linking the two Kashmirs, from Chakan-da-Bagh, on 20 June. Coinciding with such Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) is a new pattern of terror, which attacks soft targe...
  • Hostility amongst Negotiations: Is Peace Viable In Assam?
    Aparajita Mazumda    ·   19 Jul, 2006    ·    #2077    ·    Commentary    
      The third round of talks, held on 22 June 2006, between the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) assorted civil society groups, the People's Consultative Group (PCG), and the Union government, created an optimistic atmosp...
  • The
       ·   18 Jul, 2006    ·    #2076    ·    Commentary    
    The Bush administration has been touting India as a unique case - a stable, responsible, nuclear-armed democracy with no history of proliferation. And by voting in favor of the bill, the foreign affairs committees in the US Congress have made a ...
  • US-Russia Nuclear Deal
    Ajay Lele    ·   17 Jul, 2006    ·    #2075    ·    Commentary    
    Nuclear Energy is fast becoming a tool of American diplomacy. After negotiating a deal with India, which still needs Congress approval, the US is planning to negotiate civilian nuclear energy cooperation with Russia. At the G-8 summit meeting in...
  • Mumbai Train Blasts: SIMI and LeT Linkages
    Bibhu Prasad Routray    ·   17 Jul, 2006    ·    #2074    ·    Commentary    
    Investigations continue into the 11 July serial blasts in Mumbai that led to the loss of over 200 lives. Fingers have been pointed at several organizations ranging from the D-company to al-Qaeda. However, a study of past terrorist attacks pinpoi...
  • Gwadar Port: External and Internal Challenges
    Urvashi Aneja    ·   17 Jul, 2006    ·    #2073    ·    Commentary    
    Gwadar, a fishing village on the Arabian Sea coast in Balochistan, was identified in 1964 as a port site, though it was only when China pledged assistance in 2001 that the project got under way. Alarmed by the US arrival in Afghanistan, China ob...
  • Mumbai Train Blasts: Mission Accomplished?
    Urvashi Aneja    ·   17 Jul, 2006    ·    #2072    ·    Commentary    
      The Laskhar-e-Toiba and the Students Islamic Movement of India are suspected of masterminding the train blasts in Mumbai on July 11. Analysts have argued that the attacks hoped to derail the ongoing Indo-Pak peace process and ins...
  • Taliban in FATA: Four Funerals and a Furor
    D Suba Chandran    ·   14 Jul, 2006    ·    #2071    ·    Commentary    
    On 16 June 2006, two women - Saida Jan and Salma Bibi-- were killed by unidentified gunmen in the Orakzai Agency; on 19 June, Nazimuddin Gangikhel was shot dead in South Waziristan; on 26 June , Guldawar Khan and four of his associates were kill...
  • Mumbai Train Attacks: Why do terrorists target public transport systems?
    Rekha Chakravarthi    ·   13 Jul, 2006    ·    #2070    ·    Commentary    
      Less than a week ago Britain was remembering the victims of the London bombings that ripped through its transport network on 7 July 2005. The seven blasts in Mumbai's suburban railway network on 11 July 2006 eclipsed this ...
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