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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

Is Pakistan On Way from Failing to Failed State?

Sushant Sareen

A theatre of the absurd is on display in Islamabad with the street-fighters of Imran Khan and Tahirul Qadri breaching the barricades to storm the Parliament and lay siege to the Prime Minister’s House. The denouement of this clear collapse of state....

September 01, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan

Talk By Amb Hussain Haqqani

Pakistan's former Ambassador to USA, Hussain Haqqani, delivered a talk on “Pakistan: Democracy, Modernism, Jihad” before a distinguished gathering at Vivekananda International Foundation on August 13, 2014. Ambassador Haqqani who is currently the....

August 27, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Interaction , Pakistan , democracy , Jihad , Modernism , Pakistan's foreign policy , Muslim League

India Can Turn Its Back on Pakistan

Amb Kanwal Sibal

The Pakistan High Commissioner (HC) should not have met the Hurriyat leaders when he was asked by the Indian Foreign Secretary not to do so. Diplomatic norms obliged him to take this request communicated at such high level seriously and failure to do....

August 26, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan