Geopolitics
Will Pakistan Implode?
By: Maj Gen Dhruv C Katoch | Issue: Vol 26.1 Jan-Mar 2011 | Date: 21 Mar , 2011
Imagine a country where every week one or two young men – mostly in their teens, blow themselves up as suicide bombers in senseless acts of violence! Where targeted killings take place almost...
Davis Deal: US to limit HUMINT Ops in Pak territory
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Mar , 2011
It is leant from reliable sources in Pakistan that acceptance of blood money by the heirs to the two Pakistanis who were killed by Raymond Davis on January 27,2011, their withdrawal of the...
Bahrain: On the Sectarian Razor’s Edge
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 16 Mar , 2011
Bahrain, a Shia majority State ruled by a Sunni family, is on the sectarian razor’s edge following the entry of about 2000 troops from the member-States of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC)...
Ethical Dimensions of the Tibet Question
By: Dalai Lama | Issue: Book Excerpt: Rising India | Date: 16 Mar , 2011
The Tibet issue is a moral issue. First, the Tibetan nation or community has been influenced by Buddhism which came from India. It changed the whole Tibetan way of life, making it a more...
Tibetan cause after the Dalai Lama
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Mar , 2011
While wishing and hoping for a long life for His Holiness the Dalai Lama, one has to mentally prepare onself to the eventuality of his being no more with us one day and think of how to keep the...
Takshashila announces the ‘B Raman Fellowship for Geopolitical...
By: IDR News Network | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Mar , 2011
The Takshashila Institution, an independent, non-partisan, networked think tank, Sunday March 6th 2011, launched the B Raman Fellowship for Geopolitical Analysis—to encourage, recognise and...
Raymond Davis: Time for US to talk tough to Pakistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Mar , 2011
There is no solution yet in sight to the Raymond Davis tug of war between the US and Pakistan. Davis, as one would recall, is the US citizen posted in the US Consulate-General in Lahore as a...
Pak Taliban’s fresh reprisal spree could make Davis case more difficult
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 10 Mar , 2011
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is on a fresh reprisal spree against the Pakistani security agencies and elements in the Pashtun population, which have been co-operating with the Government....
India, China and the Indian Ocean
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 04 Mar , 2011
The following are my answers to some questions on the above-mentioned subject received by me by E-Mail from an Italian journalist: Gwadar in Pakistan, Hambantota in Sri Lanka, Akyab Cheduba and...
Tibet: The Panikkar Factor
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 04 Mar , 2011
One of the most important factors in the relation between Tibet and the Government of India was the appointment of K.M. Panikkar as the Ambassador to ‘two Chinas’. It is unusual that the...
Dark Clouds over Pakistan
By: Prakash Nanda | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Mar , 2011
It all began in June 2009. Asia Bibi, a farm hand from the village of Ittan Wali in Sheikhupura District of the Punjab province in Pakistan, was asked to fetch water. Bibi, whose is the only...
Winds of hatred continue to sweep across Pakistan
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 03 Mar , 2011
At a time when winds of change have been sweeping across many Islamic countries with calls for greater freedom and democracy, winds of hatred continue to sweep across Pakistan. Pakistan, which...
To overlook reality would be stupid
By: Claude Arpi | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 02 Mar , 2011
While China is free to believe that it has done nothing to raise hackles around the world, more so in its neighbourhood, that is far from the truth. It makes little sense for Beijing to feign...
Repeated Calls for Jasmine Strolls in China
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Mar , 2011
Repeated calls for “Jasmine Strolls” in Chinese cities, including Beijing, emanating from overseas Chinese web sites have added to the nervousness of the Chinese authorities. A Jasmine Stroll is...
India and the Indian Ocean
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 Feb , 2011
The main security threats to Indian interests in the Indian Ocean area arise from three factors—firstly, the gradual erosion of the Indian political influence in the area; secondly, the increase...
J&K: The complete surrender?
By: Maj Gen GD Bakshi, (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Feb , 2011
The recent spate of scams has so exhausted the fund of public outrage, that the die-hard votaries of peace with Pakistan (at any cost) have found the time opportune to shamelessly resile from...
Will China cross the Rubicon of its history?
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Feb , 2011
The seriousness with which China has been viewing the dangers of a new revolution in China inspired by the people’s uprising in Egypt would be evident from the number of high-level...
Chinese and Korean companies attacked by Libyan protesters
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Feb , 2011
Resentment over the comfortable life-style of foreigners working in Libyan projects as compared to the poverty of Libyan workers seems to be playing a role in the current turmoil in Libya. This...
Uncle Red adds to China’s nervousness
By: B Raman | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Feb , 2011
“Go, go, go! Forge on ahead. “The awakened lion is roaring. “It will smash corruption, and bury the dictatorship. “Mighty Egypt has no room for clowns. “With no equality or human rights,...
India-China Relations: Some Reflections
By: Kanwal Sibal | Issue: Vol 23.1 Jan-Mar 2008 | Date: 21 Feb , 2011
India’s China policy has been marked by friendship, sentimentalism, fear, diffidence, brinksmanship, wishful thinking and engagement. This mixture of attitudes reflects the complexity of the...