Geopolitics
SAARC – Expect no miracles
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 May , 2010
The 16th summit of the eight-nation South Asian Regional Cooperation (SAARC) concluded on March 29 in Bhutanese capital Thimphu, vowing to plant “10 million trees over the next five years”...
Marshall or Martial aid for Pakistan?
By: Subhash Chopra | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Oct , 2009
Almost since its birth Pakistan has been lucky in finding friends who have been generous with supplies of oil, armaments and hard currency to keep its ruling classes live life in style and the...
The Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project
By: Vice Adm (Retd) GM Hiranandani | Issue: Vol. 23.4 Oct-Dec 2008 | Date: 03 Feb , 2009
At present, ships transiting between the coasts of India have to go all the way around Sri Lanka because of a reef called Adam’s Bridge at Pamban, near Rameswaram Island. At Pamban, the depth...
Possible Collapse of Pakistan: Quantifying the Fallout
By: Ashish Puntambekar | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 27 Feb , 2008
The overall situation appears to be quite hopeless, and under these conditions, it is only the army that can keep the country together. A military state of emergency is therefore definitely on...
Pakistan’s Duplicity
By: B Raman | Issue: Vol 22.2 Apr-Jun 2007 | Date: 26 Apr , 2007
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, while talking to some TV channels in New Delhi, hoped India will share the outcome of the probe into the Samjhauta Express blast before the...
Threats from Pakistan
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 16.3 July-Sep 2001 | Date: 13 Aug , 2001
In spite of the fact that Pakistan is militarily considered a Secondary Threat by New Delhi, hostilities spearheaded against us constitute sixty per cent of the sum total. It originates with...