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Pakistan’s Dangerous Quest for Tactical Nukes
Monika Chansoria

Pakistan’s quest to acquire tactical nuclear weapons (TNWs) has added a dangerous dimension to the already precarious strategic equation in South Asia. The security discourse in the subcontinent revolves around the perennial apprehension of a conve....

March 29, 2013 National Security and Strategic Studies , Neighbourhood Studies , Nuclear and Disarmament , Pakistan
Stance on Sri Lanka a Blunder
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Our conduct at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) at Geneva on the US sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka on human rights violations of the tamilian population has raised questions about the coherence, maturity and objectivity of our ....

March 26, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka
Pervez Musharraf Returns...From Exile into Oblivion?
Sushant Sareen

Pakistan’s former military dictator, Gen Pervez Musharraf, has ended his nearly five year long self-exile to return home to a tepid welcome by a handful of die-hard supporters and what was clearly a ‘rent-a-crowd’ bunch of people. While his ret....

March 26, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
Anti-Lanka vote was a bad idea
Amb Kanwal Sibal

India has once again joined the US and other western countries to censure Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on the Tamil issue. This is objectionable on many counts. For many years we have fought our own battles w....

March 25, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka
When the Periphery becomes Peripheral : Perils And Pitfalls of India's Neighbourhood Policy
Sushant Sareen

The Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley, best articulated the sentiment sweeping through large parts of India in the recent months. Reacting to the resolution of the Pakistan National Assembly on Kashmir and Afzal Guru’s hanging, ....

March 24, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies
The United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution on Sri Lanka, 2013

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March 22, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka
VIF Delegation Visits Beijing for Seminar on “Afghanistan Post 2014; Perspectives from the Region”

A five member VIF delegation led by Mr. Ajit Doval and comprising of Amb. PP Shukla, Gen. (Retd.) NC Vij, Lt.Gen. (Retd.) Ravi Sawhney and Brig. (Retd.) Vinod Anand visited Beijing from 13 to 15 March 2013 to participate in a seminar and interact wi....

March 20, 2013 Seminar_57 , Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Seminars , SCO , Afghanistan Post 2014 , Afghanistan’s Economic Future
India, Afghanistan and Developments in Pakistan
Dr M N Buch (late)

A wise man does not venture into unknown territory, at least not till he has reconnoitered it thoroughly. Perhaps I am not wise because I am trying, through this paper, to venture into an area about which my knowledge is sketchy at best. I do thi....

March 19, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan , Pakistan
Pakistan’s Lame Lawmakers’ Resolution on Kashmir a Challenge for India
Sushant Sareen

The highly provocative, extremely offensive, and utterly reprehensible resolution passed by the National Assembly of Pakistan condemning Indian ‘state sponsored brutalities’ and demanding the handing over the body of executed terrorist Afzal Guru....

March 16, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
Sri Lanka, UNHRC Resolution and India
Dr N Manoharan

Sri Lanka is facing second successive resolution in as many years at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) this month. Exactly last year at the 19th session of the UNHRC, a US-sponsored resolution was passed against the island state. Backed by 24 co....

March 06, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka
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