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Nettlesome Neighbour
We need to take proper stock of our policy towards Pakistan after the recent incidents on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir and the manner in which the government of Pakistan has reacted to them. A re-examination of some of the assump....
January 26, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
Taliban and Afghan Peace – No Tango after Paris
A track II initiative was organized on 20-21 December 2012 by the Paris-based Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS) at the Chateau de la Tour Hotel in Gouvieux, Chantilly fifty kilometers north of Paris. The meeting was the third such event arrange....
January 26, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Afghanistan
Sri Lanka: And Now the Judiciary
When the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa signed an order removing the island state’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranaike on 13 January 2013, the consolidation of power was complete. In January 2010, Rajapaksa won the presidency ....
January 26, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Sri Lanka
Be to Pakistan as its Posture Warrants
Our international relations experts are divided on how to deal with Pakistan, with a section always advocating moderation in reaction to Pakistani provocations and others favouring more robust responses to Pakistani belligerence. This lack of cons....
January 23, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
India’s Pendulum Policy on Pakistan
More than anything else, experience should inform Indian policy-makers and the legion of analysts and commentators on Indo-Pak relations about the peril of using words like ‘irreversible’ and ‘uninterruptible’ to describe the extremely accide....
January 21, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
India - China Cultural Interface: An Agenda for Future
Linked Through Civilisation & Culture Both India and have China have fascinated each other - culturally, religiously and civilisationally – over the past two millennia. Across the centuries the two great civilisations have continually com....
January 21, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
Dealing with the Neighbour from Hell - Dangerously Naïve, Naively Dangerous
There has been a veritable barrage of opinion, hectoring and outright abuse from the pro-Pakistan segments of our media activists in the print media over the recent flare-up along parts of the LOC. This requires a substantive and fact-based debate, a....
January 18, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
Time to end Unilateral Concessions
Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh’s remark that there can be no business as usual with Pakistan after its troops mutilated the bodies of two Indian soldiers they killed, and that those responsible for this crime will have to be brought to book, is....
January 17, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Pakistan
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