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Towards A Stable Afghanistan: The Way Forward

(A report of Joint Working Group of Vivekananda International Foundation and RUSI, the UK) The experts from the two think tanks met in New Delhi and London during October and November 2011 to deliberate on peace and stability in Afghanistan....

January 20, 2012 National Security and Strategic Studies , International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , Military Affairs
Again, Who Do We Do Business with in Pakistan?
Amb Kanwal Sibal

The crassly cynical political developments in Pakistan, epitomized by the Memogate scandal, befit a banana republic. The Army is accusing the Head of State of acting against national security by seeking to conspire with the US to curb its power. In a....

January 17, 2012 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
Peace Efforts Low on Credibility
Amb Kanwal Sibal

The announcement that the Taliban will be opening an office in Qatar should be a cause for some reflection. The US and its allies are politically exhausted and economically drained by the war in Afghanistan. They no longer seek a clear victory; they ....

January 11, 2012 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan
Forty Years of Bangladesh Liberation: Quite Young
Dr Punam Pandey

Bangladesh has celebrated its forty years of liberation from Pakistan on 16 December2011. Anniversaries are very important in personal as well as collective life because it provides an opportunity to think about the time gone by and an opportu....

January 02, 2012 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh
The Turmoil Within - Pakistan’s future is causing concern all over the world
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Pakistan’s future is raising concerns internationally. Can this nuclear-armed country step back from the brink by radically changing its internal and external outlook? Pakistan cannot break its Islamic links as it came into being because of Islam. ....

December 15, 2011 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
CRUNCHTIME PAKISTAN
Sushant Sareen

The already strained US-Pakistan relations appear to have gone into almost a freefall after NATO gunships fired on two Pakistan army posts along the Pak-Afghan border in the Mohmand Tribal agency killing 24 soldiers and injuring around a dozen more, ....

December 09, 2011 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
India, Pak & a happy mirage
Sushant Sareen

There is no policy change The positive vibes emanating from the meeting between the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan in Addu, the Maldives, have generated a lot of misplaced optimism on the future of Indo-Pak relations. Notwithstan....

November 23, 2011 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
Flawed Pakistan strategy
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Our policy towards Pakistan, as the SAARC summit at Maldives last week showed, is stuck in the double grooves of hope and good faith. We think that India and Pakistan can turn a 'new chapter' in their relationship and believe in the good faith of Pak....

November 21, 2011 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
The Darkness in Afghanistan
Amb Kanwal Sibal

The West is describing the current situation in Afghanistan as one of transition. This assumes that the situation is moving from one state of things to another in a planned and controlled manner. It is clear that US and NATO want to reduce their mili....

November 16, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan
Malfeasance in Maldives
Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

Manmohan Singh is taking huge risks in appeasing Pakistan in the hope that it will lead to a thaw in bilateral relations and mould his stature as a ‘statesman'. But his gestures have been disproportionate to the existing ground realities. He is ....

November 15, 2011 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
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