Articles By B Raman
Obama's Visit : Focus on Pakistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2010
During the entire three-day visit of President Barack Obama to India from November 6 to 8, 2010, the Indian public focus remained disproportionately on what he had to say on Pakistan’s continued...
Intelligence: Need for Enhanced Focus on China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Nov , 2010
Since 1947, India has had four reviews of its intelligence capabilities. The first was after the Sino-Indian military conflict of 1962 in which the Indian Army did badly. The review led to two...
Obama's visit: India-US Roadmap for Strategic Partnership
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Nov , 2010
A comprehensive roadmap for giving shape to the Indo-US strategic partnership has been the most important outcome of the very successful visit of President Barack Obama to India from November 6...
India's soft response to Chinese assertiveness
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Nov , 2010
The Government of India has sought to play down the worrisome implications of China’s new policy on Kashmir favouring Pakistan, its growing strategic presence in the Gilgit-Baltistan area of...
The return of the US to Asia : Core Interests vs Mutual Interests
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Nov , 2010
The visit of President Barack Obama to India, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea will be as important as his earlier swing through the Asia-Pacific region after assuming office in January 2009....
Al Qaeda - Taliban in Europe
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Oct , 2010
On August 15, 2007, the Pakistani authorities handed over to Germany Tolga Durbin, a German citizen of Turkish origin, who belonged to the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), an Uzbek terrorist...
China gets tough with protesting Tibetan students
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Oct , 2010
After having failed thus far to pacify protesting Tibetan students in the Qinghai province who are angry over the introduction of Mandarin as the medium of instruction in the Tibetan schools,...
PLA conducts first air ground live ammunition drill in Tibet
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Oct , 2010
Citing the People’s Liberation Army Daily, the “People’s Daily” of China controlled by the Communist Party of China reported as follows on October 26,2010: “Near the foot of the snowcapped...
Why Pak Army reacted strongly to copter strike in Kurram?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Oct , 2010
“The US, while targeting the Haqqanis, is pursuing the ‘hammer and anvil approach’. Alongside the spike in the drone attacks, US Special Forces have launched an intense operation against the...
Need to act swiftly and decisively on J&K
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 21 Oct , 2010
The situation in Jammu & Kashmir is going from bad to worse. The widespread acts of violence on the Eid day and the outburst on September 13, 2010, in the wake of baseless rumours of insult to...
Agenda for Obama's Visit : Counter - Terrorism
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Oct , 2010
Indo-US co-operation in counter-terrorism has the following components: Assistance in capacity building in traditional counter-terrorism: Started in the early 1980s during the administration of...
Headley's Case : Indian Distrust of FBI will increase International Terrorism
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Oct , 2010
More disclosures relating to David Coleman Headley of the Chicago cell of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) embarrassing to the USA’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been brought out in two...
Chinese Attitude to US : Trust - Distrust Syndrome
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Oct , 2010
President Barack Obama has made another overture of likely strategic significance to China, which could be a new landmark in moves to strengthen the strategic partnership between the two...
The Danger Signals from Pakistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Oct , 2010
More people were killed and more material damage was caused by the quake in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) and some parts of the North-West Frontier Province ( now called Khyber Pakhtunkwa ) in...
Obama's Gesture to China on Eve of Indian visit
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2010
On the eve of his forthcoming visit to India next month, President Barack Obama has made an important gesture to China. Even while supporting the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese...
No stability in Tibet-Xinjiang without Pakistan, says Chinese Writer
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Oct , 2010
An article published on October 12, 2010, by the Chinese Communist Party-controlled “Global Times” has questioned the reported description of Pakistan as a cancer by President Barack Obama. It...
China supports Pakistan's claim on Kashmir!
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Aug , 2010
The international community treats Jammu & Kashmir as a de facto — but not de jure — part of India. Similarly, it treats Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) as de facto...
Wikileaks: The Implications for the Obama Administration
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jul , 2010
The leakage of nearly 90,000 documents relating to the Afghan war for the period between January 2004 and December 2009 by Wikileaks, a US web site which disseminates secret information of...
Xinjiang: Chinese on the Guard, but Friday Prayers Allowed
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2010
Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China, is tense a day before the first anniversary of the outbreak of anti-Han violence by some Uighurs of the city on July 5 last year....
The White-Collared Jihadis: Role of Pakistani Returnees from US
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 May , 2010
As part of the investigation into the attempt by Faisal Shahzad, a US citizen of Pakistani origin, to cause an incendiary car bomb explosion in the Times Square of New York on May 1, 2010,...