Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sat, 04/13/2013 - 14:06
Paper No. 5459 Dated 13-Apr-2013
By B.Raman
As the US troops prepare to thin themselves out of Afghanistan starting from next year, India has to worry whether 1996 can repeat itself in Afghanistan, when the Taliban, with the help of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), captured power from the Afghan Mujahideen in Kabul and enforced its rule.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:08
Paper No. 5418 Dated 5-Mar-2013
By Bhaskar Roy
The fact that a civilian government in Pakistan is completing a full five-year tenure is a hopeful sign. There is another fact, which is worrying. Army Chief Gen. Parvez Asfaq Kayani recently stated that the army will back peaceful elections and a civilian government.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sun, 03/03/2013 - 14:40
Paper No. 5414 Dated 3-Mar-2013
By B.Raman
In our preoccupation with the anti-India activities of the Pakistani jihadi organisations, we should not overlook the positive factors that have brought a ray of hope not only to Pakistan, but to the region as a whole.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 02/11/2013 - 10:39
Paper No. 5388 Dated 11-Feb-2013
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Introductory Observations
India’s foreign policy successes cannot be measured by the number of foreign dignitaries visiting India annually, from Presidents to Prime Ministers, or hosting international conferences in New Delhi. This would be a delusionary deduction to draw as such beelines were visible also in the hey-day of the equally delusionary days of the Non Alignment era. What was the end result?
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 02/04/2013 - 06:07
Paper No. 5384 Dated 4-Feb-2013
By Dr Subhash Kapila
The United States “Global War on Terror” launched by the United States in the wake of 9/11 Islamist terrorists’ attacks on New York and Washington marked the first decade of the 21st Century and overwhelmingly determined United States strategic, foreign policy and political policy formulations, virtually to the exclusion of anything else.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 02/01/2013 - 10:45
Paper No. 5381 Dated 01-Feb-2013
By B. Raman
Despite its continuing concerns over the freedom struggle of the Balochs which shows no signs of letting up, China, which originally constructed the languishing commercial port of Gwadar on the Mekran Coast of Balochistan, is reported to have agreed in principle to take over the responsibility for the operation of the port.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sun, 01/20/2013 - 12:01
Paper No. 5373 Dated 20-Jan-2013
By Kazi Anwarul Masud
Pakistan could have descended into chaos if the political crisis that suddenly emerged recently had not been resolved.
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