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पश्चिमी एशिया की समीक्षा- मई, 2019
July 16 , 2019 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF
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अमेरिका और ईरान

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Hindi , इस्राइल-फिलिस्तीन विवाद , ईरान पर अमेरिकी प्रतिबंध , मध्य-पूर्व तनाव , सीरिया शांति प्रक्रिया

Fortnightly Notes from the South Asian Sub-Continent
July 15 , 2019 Mayuri Mukherjee
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Bangladesh: No justice in extrajudicial killing After a murder accused was killed in an encounter with the police earlier this month, Bangladesh’s apex court made clear that it did not approve of such ‘...

Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Bangladesh killings , Death penalty in Sri Lanka , Pakistan’s debt

US Policy and India’s Energy Needs
July 15 , 2019 Aayush Mohanty Dr Hirak Jyoti Das
Article Views: 3448
The United States of America has decided to roll back the waivers on its sanctions on entities or countries engaged in oil trade with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The waivers known as Significant Redu...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : India’s energy security , Iran sanctions , Oil supply

New Breed of Kashmiri Terrorists
July 12 , 2019 Bashir Assad
Commentary Views: 4091
The current phase of militancy in Kashmir has a very strong ideological basis. It is completely different from what it was in the early 1990s. Islamist theology originating from Wahabism and Maududism p...

National Security and Strategic Studies, Jammu & Kashmir

Tags : Kashmir militancy , Kashmiri radicalization , money and propaganda in radicalization

Pakistan Federal Budget 2019-20 - Unrealistic Ambitions
July 11 , 2019 Prateek Joshi Riya Sinha
Commentary Views: 4175
Pakistan’s Federal Budget was unveiled on June 11, 2019, under the looming shadow of International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) conditionalities seeking to curb the consistently misused fiscal space as well as...

Pakistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : Pakistan budget , Pakistan’s fiscal distress

Trump’s visit to the DMZ: More Than Just Photo Optics?
July 11 , 2019 Dr Gunjan Singh
Commentary Views: 3540
Trump, in his impromptu diplomatic style, surprised the whole world when he tweeted an invitation to Kim to meet him at the Korean De-Militarized Zone (DMZ). The fact that Trump and Kim met on North Korean soil is a historic development.

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Korean peace , North Korea sanctions , Trump-Kim talks

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