COMMENTARIES
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Mining in Afghanistan: Scale Down to Reap More
Roshan Iyer · 04 Oct, 2016 · #5145 · Commentary
The mining industry in Afghanistan holds the potential to completely revolutionise the country’s domestic economy. Afghanistan has around 1400 deposit sites of minerals worth between USD 1 and 3 trillion – according to the 2010 US Ge...
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Contextualising Iran: The Nixon and Obama Doctrines
Kimberley Anne Nazareth · 04 Oct, 2016 · #5144 · Commentary
Presidents are infamous for their doctrines, a tactic used in an effort to elevate the status of their policies making them sound prophetic and strategic than they actually are. Presidential doctrines are tools used to clarify their agendas as w...
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The Myth of 'Homegrown Terror'-III
Mapping the Dhaka Gulshan Attack: Who was Tamim Chowdhary?
Angshuman Choudhury · 04 Oct, 2016 · #5143 · Commentary
On 27 August 2016, Tamim Ahmed Chowdhary alias Abu Shaykh Al-Hanif - the mastermind of the recent Gulshan attack in Dhaka - was killed in a raid by Bangladeshi security forces in Narayanganj.
Chowdhary's identification, and the st...
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In Context: Recent Amendments to India's Tax Treaties
Prerana Priyadarshi · 04 Oct, 2016 · #5142 · Commentary
After signing a protocol to amend the Mauritius Tax Treaty on 10 May 2016, India is now renegotiating its tax treaty with Singapore. Additionally, on 24 August 2016, the Indian Union Cabinet approved the signing of a revised India-Cyprus tax tre...
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India-Pakistan: Whither Surgical Strike?
Muhammad Faisal · 30 Sep, 2016 · #5141 · Commentary
On 29 September, the Indian Army claimed that it had conducted a “surgical strike” along the Line of Control (LoC), in the Pakistani-administered region of Kashmir. Pakistani authorities, both civil and military, quickly rebutted it ...
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India’s ‘Surgical Strike’ Across the LoC: A Preliminary Assessment
Angshuman Choudhury · 30 Sep, 2016 · #5140 · Commentary
On 29 September
2016, the Indian Army's Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) announced
that India had conducted overnight pre-emptive 'surgical strikes' against terrorist
targets along its Line of Control (LoC) w...
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India-Pakistan
Withdrawing the MFN Status to Pakistan: Legality and Implications
VP Haran · 27 Sep, 2016 · #5139 · Commentary
The Most Favoured Nation (MFN) treatment is the fundamental basis of multilateral trade conducted under the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules. It simply means that WTO members will not discriminate among other members, except as specifically ...
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Book Review: Pulls and Pressures in India and Pakistan
Sadia Tasleem · 27 Sep, 2016 · #5138 · Commentary
Title: Not War, Not Peace? Motivating Pakistan to Prevent Cross-Border Terrorism
Authors: George Perkovich, Toby Dalton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, India, 2016,
Pages: 298
An upcoming book titled, ‘N...
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Fragile States Index 2016
Sri Lanka: Fault-lines in the Transitional Justice Process
Aaranya Rajasingam · 23 Sep, 2016 · #5137 · Commentary
Sri Lanka is ranked 43rd (out of 178 countries) in the 2016 annual Fragile States Index, pointing to an improving trend in the country. The country has been moved from the “Alert” category to “High Warning” – a welc...
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J&K Focus
From South Kashmir to Uri: The Strategic Connect
Lt Gen (Retd) Syed Ata Hasnain · 23 Sep, 2016 · #5136 · Commentary · Column
The long festering Kashmir street disturbances and the four-hour encounter at the Uri administrative base have a distinct connect, which is easy to identify if one knows the entire dynamics of the sponsored proxy war under way in Jammu & Kas...
