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Nepal’s Experiment with Democracy - A Game of Shifting Alliances
RNP Singh

As is well known to political and strategic analysts dealing with Nepal, the only constant in the country’s recent political history has been the game of alliances and re-alliances, played by the political parties with a view to retaining power. In....

October 23, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal , India , Nepal elections , Nepal politics , Prime Minister Deuba , Nepali Congress
US Policy: The India Card
Sushant Sareen

After US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Pakistan a ‘reliable partner’ and Defense Secretary Gen James Mattis talked of trying “one more time” to work with Pakistan to stabilise Afghanistan, it appeared for a moment as though the US c....

October 18, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , India , Pakistan’s double-game , US punitive options , US Secretary , Trump. Pakistan
आतंकवाद पर पाकिस्तान की बकवास की पड़ताल
Sushant Sareen

पाकिस्तान में केवल भोले-भाले आम आदमी ही नहीं बल्कि तथाकथित ‘बुद्धिजीवियों’ (ज्यादातर पाकिस्त�....

October 17, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Pakistan , आतंकवाद , पाकिस्तान , झूठा प्रचार , Terrorism
Rawalpindi’s Strategic Calculus and the Emergence of Militant Parties in Pakistani Electoral Politics
Varun Nambiar

When Pakistan’s erstwhile Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was declared ineligible to hold his office by the country’s Supreme Court on a corruption charge in August,1 Jamaat-ud Dawa (JuD), the public charity wing of the Lashkar-e Taiba (Le....

October 16, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
From Electoral to Alliance Politics in Nepal
Prof Hari Bansh Jha

As per the constitutional provisions, Nepal was expected to hold elections for the local units, apart from the provincial assemblies and the federal parliament, until January 21, 2018. Accordingly, the country has already completed the local unit’s....

October 16, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal , Nepal elections , Nepal Local Units Elections , Nepal Parties , Madhesh , CPN-MC , CPN-UML , NC
प्रधानमंत्री देउबा की भारत यात्रा – समीक्षा
Dr Madhumita Srivastava Balaji

जिस समय डोकलम में भारत-चीन विवाद अपने चरम पर था, ठीक उसी समय 23 से 27 अगस्त के बीच नेपाल के प्रधानमंत�....

September 26, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal , Nepal , modi , Prime Minister Deuba , नेपाल- भारत प्रतिबद्धता , प्रधानमंत्री देउबा , भारत यात्रा , India Visit
Round Table Discussion on ‘India-Bhutan Relations: Recent Developments and Implications’

The Dokalam crisis, i.e. the border stand-off between China and India, which had kept the bilateral ties between the two neighbouring countries on the boil for over two months, came to a peaceful resolution on Aug 28, 2017, with both sides disengagin....

September 25, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Bhutan , Interaction , India-Bhutan Relations , Sino-Bhutanese boundary , Siliguri Corridor , IMTRAT
Fact-Checking Pakistan’s Tripe on Terrorism
Sushant Sareen

The thought-control exercised by the ‘deep state’ in Pakistan over not just gullible common folk but also the so-called ‘intelligentsia’ (a misnomer for most Pakistani academicians, analysts and journalists) is so overwhelming that most of th....

September 20, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
A Talk on ‘India-Afghanistan Relations: Recent Developments and Implications’, by H.E. Salahuddin Rabbani, Foreign Minister of Afghanistan

H.E. Salahuddin Rabbani, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, concluded his three-day visit to India with a talk on ‘India-Afghanistan Relations: Recent Developments and Implications’, delivered at the Vivekananda ....

September 18, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Interaction , Pakistan , US , India-Afghanistan relations , Salahuddin Rabbani
Prime Minister Deuba’s Visit to India-An Assessment
Dr Madhumita Srivastava Balaji

Right in the midst of the then raging Sino-Indian stand-off at Doklam, the Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba paid a five day state visit to India from August 23-27, 2017; his first foreign trip after assuming the charge in May 2017. It was P....

September 14, 2017 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal , Nepal , Deuba’s visit
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