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Vaidik - Saeed Meeting: A Case of Self-Appointed Diplomats, Self-Serving Charlatans
Sushant Sareen

The meeting between internationally designated terrorist chieftain Hafiz Saeed and an Indian journalist (?) and political operator, Dr VP Vaidik, in Lahore has caused a veritable storm in not just political circles but also the media. Normally, no ey....

July 16, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Governance and Political Studies , Media Studies
Nepal The Framing of a New Constitution: History, Issues and Challenges
Prof B C Upreti

Preface Nepal has experienced some catalytic political changes in the recent decades. The Maoist insurgency, the monarchy’s assertion to direct rule, the reinstallation of democratic rule through the second democratic movement and the pol....

July 01, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal , Maoist insurgency , Monograph , New Constitution , Democratic movement
Karachi Airport Attack and its Portents
Sushant Sareen

The terrorist strike on the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi was neither the first nor the worst attack on such a high profile target in Pakistan. Just as similar attacks in the past – the GHQ and the Parade Lane mosque in Rawalpindi, the Na....

June 17, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World; T V Paul; Random House India; PP 257; Price Rs 499
Sushant Sareen

A Wonky State Behaving Like Warrior State In recent years, there has been a veritable deluge of books on Pakistan and all that’s wrong with that country. There have also been some books which have tried to argue, even if unconvincingly, tha....

June 13, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Book Reviews , Warrior State , Indian origin , Paradox of Pakistan
Book on Bangladeshi Migrants Released at VIF

‘Bangladesh Migrants - A Threat to India’ authored by P K Mishra, Senior Fellow of the Vivekananda International Foundation, was released at the VIF on 13 May 2014, by Shri Prakash Singh, IPS (Retd) and former Director General, BSF and a member o....

May 26, 2014 Ilegal Immigration , National Security and Strategic Studies , Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Book Discussions , Bangladesh Migrant , Indo Bangladesh border , Coxs' Bazaar , Islamic interest
Will the Transitional Bill on Truth and Reconciliation Commission Bring Peace to Nepal?
Prof Hari Bansh Jha

The Bill on Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and on Commission of Inquiry on Disappearances (CID) was tabled in the Legislature-Parliament on April 16, 2014 for discussion, which was finally approved by the majority of the members on April 2....

May 13, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Nepal
Reaping the Whirlwind; Michael Griffin; Pluto Press; PP 283; Price: Rs 1834
Amb Prabhat P Shukla

Afghanistan 2014: Forward to the Past? This is not a recent book, comparatively speaking; it was published in 2001, but remains topical. It covers the rise of the Taliban in the mid- to late-1990’s, and examines the main actors in the rise ....

May 06, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Pashtun , Taliban , Book Reviews , UN Security Council , Osama Bin Laden , Zulfikar Ali Bhutto , America , US East African Missions
The Message Behind Raheel Sharif Raking up Kashmir
Sushant Sareen

In a speech on the occasion of Martyrs Day, the Pakistan Army chief, Gen Raheel Sharif, parroted a nearly seven decade old, and by now tired and worn out cliché that Kashmir was Pakistan’s ‘jugular vein’ and demanded a resolution to the issue ....

May 05, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
Attack on Hamid Mir: Pak Media Caught in Pincer of Military, Militants & Market
Sushant Sareen

The attack on one of the best known Pakistani journalists, Hamid Mir, has only reaffirmed Pakistan's reputation as one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists. Mir, who took six bullets, barely survived the well planned ambush carri....

April 24, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan , Media Studies
The Musharraf Case: Will Anyone Agree to Take The Fall for him?
Sushant Sareen

Even though Gen Pervez Musharraf has finally been indicted on five charges of treason by the Special Court constituted to try him, the widespread feeling within Pakistan and beyond is that this is probably as far as the civilian government could go a....

April 03, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
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