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Afghanistan Post-2014: The Pashtun Factor
November 25 , 2014 Amb Prabhat P Shukla
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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...

Afghanistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Afghanistan’s Turbulent Past Could Once Again Become Its Future
November 24 , 2014 Lt General R K Sawhney, PVSM, AVSM, Centre Head & Senior Fellow, National Security and Strategic Studies & Internal Security Studies, VIF Sushant Sareen
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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 ...

Afghanistan, Neighbourhood Studies

Floods in Nepal: Time to Tackle the Problem on Priority
November 21 , 2014 Prof Hari Bansh Jha
Views: 3727
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 n...

Nepal, Neighbourhood Studies

India’s ‘Act East’ Policy: A Perspective
November 20 , 2014 Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Dr Rahul Mishra
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India’s Look East Policy (LEP) came of age when New Delhi celebrated two decades of engagement by holding the ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit in November 2012. The first phase of LEP lasted for one de...

Indo-Pacific, International Relations and Diplomacy

Key to Building New Temples of Modern, Progressive India
November 19 , 2014 Dr M N Buch (late)
Views: 4372
When India became independent, the government led by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru took a deliberate decision to launch a massive programme of building infrastructure in India and for this purpose opt...

Governance and Political Studies

Some Imperatives of Government
October 27 , 2014 Dr M N Buch (late)
Views: 4436
The present government at the Centre has just completed four and a half months in office. This is too short time to judge the performance of any government and, therefore, an effort will be made to ens...

Governance and Political Studies

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