Geopolitics
ISI’s Strategic Blackmail
By: Nidhi Bhardwaj | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Apr , 2011
Taking advantage of the political controversy in Pakistan over the Raymond Allen Davis case, the ISI has strategically capped intelligence cooperation with and operations by the CIA. Davis, a...
An Ocean of Instability
By: Tejas Patel | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Apr , 2011
The recent reports of the presence of Chinese troops in the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) have set the alarm bells ringing in New Delhi. Despite its neutrality on the Kashmir issue, Beijing is...
China leads Great Game in Afghanistan
By: Tejas Patel | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Apr , 2011
Almost 10 years back, Taliban destroyed statues of Buddha in Afghanistan’s Bamyan province and now around 1000 workers are working hard to excavate artifacts at another Buddhist site in the...
Somali Pirates say they are at war with India
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Apr , 2011
According to the Wikipedia,Information Dissemination is a weblog covering international and United States naval affairs. It was founded in 2007 by Raymond Pritchett, who edits it under the...
Nepal deporting Tibetans to China secretly
By: Nidhi Bhardwaj | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Apr , 2011
When Chen Bingde, the Chinese army chief, and his 15-member delegation landed in Kathmandu on March 23, 2011, he brought him a loyalty-trust proposal for the pro-China ruling coalition of the...
Misreading Pakistan
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 15 Apr , 2011
The recently revealed WikiLeaks documents mentioned, among others, how the then national security advisor M K Narayanan had indicated once to his American interlocutors, and that too, in the...
Follow the orders from Beijing
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Apr , 2011
The present regime in Beijing is really allergic to democracy. Though since ancient times democracy has been recognized as the best way to get the ‘masses’ to participate to the governance of a...
Pakistan: The Same Old Story – II
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpt: Mumbai 26/11 | Date: 14 Apr , 2011
The JUD, which played an active role in the humanitarian relief and rehabilitation operations in the PoK after the earthquake of October, 2005, is playing a similar role now in organizing relief...
Pakistan: The Same Old Story – I
By: B Raman | Issue: Book Excerpt: Mumbai 26/11 | Date: 13 Apr , 2011
The US pressured India into not retaliating against Pakistan after the attempted attack on the Indian Parliament by Pakistani terrorists on December 13, 2001, and promised that Pakistan would be...
Chinese troops sited in Nepal too!
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Apr , 2011
The Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Hong Lei denied the presence of the PLA troops in POK. Unfortunately, Chinese soldiers are not only present in POK, but also in large number in Nepal....
Trends in China’s South Asia Policy
By: Dr Monika Chansoria | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 08 Apr , 2011
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to India and thereafter to Pakistan in December 2010 can be ascribed to as being a ‘withering’ one as far as India is concerned and an ‘all-weather’...
A Lesson from Fukushima
By: Air Marshal AK Trikha | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 06 Apr , 2011
Japan is no stranger to natural disasters. In living memory it has been rocked by severe earthquakes, battered by typhoons and tsunamis which have left a trail of death and destruction in their...
Libya: The West faces three disturbing ground realities
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Apr , 2011
The Western campaign — by exploiting the fig leaf cover of the UN Security Council Resolution 1973 for protecting civilians in Libya — to work for a regime change in Libya has come face to face...
Need to guard against commando-style swarm attacks at Mohali
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Mar , 2011
The “Dawn” of Karachi has reported as follows in its web site: “The guessing game ended early hours on Sunday when the Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani decided to accept Indian...
India needs an intelligent strategy
By: Bharat Verma | Issue: Vol 20.2 Apr-Jun 2005 | Date: 28 Mar , 2011
By a turn of good fortune, geo-political factors today favor India. We are perhaps the only country in the world with unique access to opposing camps, consisting of major and minor powers or...
Jasmine Revolution: Make or Break in Bahrain?
By: RSN Singh | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Mar , 2011
The so-called ‘Jasmine Revolution’ in the Middle East, which has impacted the popular perception of the Western World, particularly amongst the uninformed, seems to have hit a roadblock in...
Neighbour is not sporting but we’ve handed out invite
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Mar , 2011
Not only the World Cup sporting fortunes of our cricket team in the quarter final match against Australia were in play, the political fortunes of our relations with Pakistan were at stake too....
India’s Role in the New World Order
By: Col Ajay Singh | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 25 Mar , 2011
Over the past five months or so, in spite of surfacing corruption charges, a virtual paralysis of parliament and sense of political drift in the country, India has had much to cheer about. The...
Hardly any water in Wikileaks revelations
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Mar , 2011
Professional diplomats will find little that is new or startling in the Wikileaks cables. For them the quality and content of reporting in the leaked cables is quite standard fare. Transmitting...
Libya: Increasing Confusion
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 23 Mar , 2011
“The rebels’ strategy is to push west but this has got off to a halting start, and without further concerted air strikes it is difficult to see how this rag-tag army will ever achieve its aim of...