Geopolitics
Pakistan’s Confessions: Shouldn’t go slow on defence modernisation
By: Lt Gen Harwant Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jul , 2011
Pakistan Defence Minister in a recent statement has acknowledged that his country just cannot match India in defence capabilities. This, it is argued, is due to the vast difference in the GDP...
China’s Strategic Eggs in South Asia
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Jul , 2011
China is not a South Asian power, but it has been seeking to build up for itself a strong South Asian presence which could cater to its strategic needs in the long term. It has made inroads in...
Karachi, Beirut of South Asia
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 Jul , 2011
Karachi stands in danger of turning into another Beirut of the 1970s and 1980s if the Government of Pakistan does not wake up in time to the implications of the unending clashes between the...
Hate India to Survive in Pakistan
By: Col US Rathore | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Jul , 2011
Events leading to Cricket World Cup semi-final match between India and Pakistan at Mohali generated a lot of optimism. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh extended invitation to Pakistan’s...
State, strategy, power & policy: China and India
By: Air Marshal Narayan Menon | Issue: Vol 23.3 Jul-Sep 2008 | Date: 30 Jun , 2011
The grand strategy of a state may be described as a long–term plan to accomplish its domestic and external objectives. Policies flowing from the grand strategy must aim to promote the vital...
Introspection in Pakistan: Will It Endure?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Jun , 2011
The anger and humiliation caused in Pakistan by the unilateral raid by US naval commandos on the residence of Osama bin Laden at Abbottabad on May 2,2011, and by the inability of the Pakistani...
Samjauta Express: Unwarranted Linkage
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Jun , 2011
The five acts of reprisal terrorism carried out by some angry members of the Hindu community against their Muslim fellow-citizens since 2006 need to be strongly condemned and those responsible...
Hizbut Tehrir’s Appeal to Pak Army to act against US & India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Jun , 2011
The Pakistan Army is reported to have taken into custody one serving Brigadier and four Majors for having links with the Hizbut Tehrir (Party of Liberation).A detailed note on the HT will...
Can there be revolt against General Kayani?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Jun , 2011
Can there be a revolt against Gen.Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Pakistan’s Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), either by the subalterns or by senior officers due to their unhappiness over his...
Al-Zawahiri: Advocate of Global Jihadi Intifada
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Jun , 2011
Six weeks after the death of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011, Al Qaeda’s General Command has announced the appointment of Ayman al-Zawahiri, of Egypt, who was OBL’s No.2, as the new head of...
Chinese restraint has its limits, Vietnam cautioned
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2011
Through articles in the Chinese Communist Party controlled media that appeared on June 20 and 21, 2011, the Chinese authorities have clearly warned of the likely consequences of what they see as...
Indo-Pak Foreign Secretaries’ Talks
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2011
Mrs. Nirupama Rao, India’s Foreign Secretary, and her Pakistani counterpart Mr. Salman Bashir are to meet at Islamabad on June 23 and 24, 2011. The meeting is expected to review the results of...
Post-Abbottabad Pak sulking has had no impact on Obama
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2011
Pakistan’s post-Abbottabad sulking and partly-real, partly-manufactured anti-US anger have had no impact on President Barack Obama’s counter-sanctuary emphasis in his counter-terrorism strategy....
China’s Guantanamo Bay!
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Jun , 2011
All right-thinking persons of the world have spoken for a decade against the military detention centre set up by the US in the Guantanamo Bay area of Cuba for detaining and interrogating all Al...
Balochistan: Greater Realism in China and Iran
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Jun , 2011
Independently of each other, China and Iran seem to be developing doubts in their mind about the ability of the Pakistani Armed Forces to restore normalcy in Balochistan and put down the Baloch...
China’s African Safari
By: Rohit Singh | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 08 Jun , 2011
The first decade of the 21st century has seen subtle changes in Chinese foreign policy. Reasons may be many, but the principal foreign policy determinant has been the demands of the Chinese...
Alliances and Autonomy: Lessons from Germany
By: Dr Prem Mahadevan | Issue: Vol 26.2 Apr-Jun 2011 | Date: 06 Jun , 2011
With the world remaining focused on NATO military intervention in Libya, a major shift has been quietly occurring in international relations. Germany, for long a staunch member of the...
Terrorists on the run after killing of Ilyas Kashmiri?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jun , 2011
The USA’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has not allowed the death of Osama bin Laden in a raid by US naval commandos at his hide-out at Abbottabad on May 2,2011,to slow down its hunt for...
Developments in Pakistan
By: Maj Gen Afsir Karim | Issue: Courtesy: Aakrosh | Date: 01 Jun , 2011
The Islamic world is in turbulence for some time now; whether these movements will lead to a more liberal order or will the religious groups that are lurking beneath the surface grab power once...
US-Pak Counter-Terrorism Cooperation: The Ritual & the Reality
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 30 May , 2011
Secret commitments by both the political and military leaderships to co-operate with the US in counter-terrorism, ritual denial of such commitments in public statements, dragging the feet in...