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IS Growth Poses Threat to Several Countries

The menace which has been created by the Sunni militant group, Islamic State (IS) is likely to stay for some time to come. Despite the United States (US)-led coalition airstrikes to destroy the terror organisation , there has been no significant decl....

December 16, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy , Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Pakistan , West Asia

Round table on India-Sri Lanka Relations

Experts and scholars from Pathfinder Foundation, Sri Lanka and members of VIF Faculty discussed a broad range of bilateral issues between India and Sri Lanka on 09 December 2014. The Sri Lankan team was led by Amb. Bernard Goonetilleke, Chairman, and....

December 15, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka , Interaction , Indian Ocean , India-Sri Lanka relations , Sri Lankan Civil War

Modi’s Visit to Nepal: An Assessment

C D Sahay

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Kathmandu from November 25-27 to participate in the 18th SAARC Summit. Though the visit was primarily for a multi-lateral event,the summit meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), i....

December 15, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal

Joint VIF-RUSI-CICIR Seminar on Afghanistan at Beijing

A trilateral conference ‘China, India, the UK and Afghanistan- A Partnership for Stability’ was held in Beijing from 24 to 26 November 2014 under the auspices of VIF, Royal United Services Institute of UK (RUSI) and China Institute for Con....

December 11, 2014 Conference , Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Conferences , CICIR , RUSI , Afghan National Security Forces , Karzai government

Visit by Bangladeshi Parliamentary Delegation

On 25 Nov 2014, a ten-member Parliamentary delegation from Bangladesh held wide ranging interaction with the VIF faculty on ‘India-Bangladesh relations and the way forward’. The interaction kicked off on a positive note, with former Ambassador Sa....

December 03, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Interaction , India-Bangladesh Relations , Bangladeshi Parliamentary Delegation

Afghanistan Post-2014: The Pashtun Factor

Amb Prabhat P Shukla

There is an effort among some western commentaries – taken up and amplified by the Pakistanis - to try and project the situation in Afghanistan as a proxy war between India and Pakistan. The drumbeat of this thesis grows as the draw-down of western....

November 25, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s Turbulent Past Could Once Again Become Its Future

Sushant Sareen

More than a decade after the US and its allies ousted the monstrous Taliban regime and gave the people of Afghanistan a level of stability and progress that they had not known in decades, it seems that things could well be coming a full circle. Ironi....

November 24, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan

Floods in Nepal: Time to Tackle the Problem on Priority

Prof Hari Bansh Jha

Despite the development of science and technology, the magnitude of natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunami, tornado, storms, floods and drought does not seem to have taken any respite. All the nations of the world continue to be plagued by su....

November 21, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal

Afghanistan: Political Compromise, Security Challenge and Economic Constraint

Lt General R K Sawhney, PVSM, AVSM, Centre Head & Senior Fellow, National Security and Strategic Studies & Internal Security Studies, VIF

After a keenly contested Presidential election, the result of which came under a serious cloud when Dr Ashraf Ghani Ahmedzai surprised the odds-on favourite Dr Abdullah Abdullah by crossing the half-way mark, it looked as though the all-important pol....

October 09, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan

PM Modi’s Visit to Nepal: Challenges and Opportunities

C D Sahay

The past three months since the Narendra Modi-led NDA government assumed office in India have been momentous in terms of defining, inter alia, a new era of Indo-Nepal relations. The pace at which events have unfolded has been unprecedented. Starting ....

September 08, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal