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MAOIST STRATEGY DOCUMENT: AN ANALYSIS
July 27 , 2010
Views: 8217
The Prime Minister has consistently called Left Wing Extremism (LWE) as India’s greatest internal security threat. The threat assessment however, differs sharply from response realities. For over a deca...

Leftwing Extremism

It would be an error to talk to Pakistan again
July 20 , 2010 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF
Views: 5822
he major lesson we should draw from the foreign minister-level talks is that Pakistan is not serious about addressing our concerns on terrorism. This should have been clear to us long ago because we hav...

Pakistan

China-Pakistan Railway Project
July 19 , 2010 Debasish Chaudhuri
Views: 23559
There were considerable enthusiasms in Pakistan prior to President Asif Ali Zardai’s visit to China which ended with much less triumph because the two main areas of negotiations, namely, civil nuclear e...

China, International Relations and Diplomacy

India-Pak talk: TRUST DEFICIT AND CURRENCY OF HOPE
July 17 , 2010 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 4524
It is not clear what External Affairs Minister’s visit to Pakistan in mid-July can realistically achieve in bridging the trust deficit between India and Pakistan. This distrust spans sixty three years. ...

Pakistan

Ensnare Pakistan in Afghanistan
July 17 , 2010 Sushant Sareen
Views: 4862
With the Americans having conceded a central role to Pakistan in the latest round of the never-ending ‘endgame’ in Afghanistan, the spectre of Taliban returning to power in Kabul is all too real for cou...

Afghanistan

A China-Pak Nuclear Axis Against India
July 14 , 2010 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 10310
The issues involved in China’s sale of two more nuclear reactors need to be better understood. Arguments that India, as a non-NPT state, has itself secured a nuclear deal with the US and therefore has l...

Nuclear and Disarmament

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