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“Cold Water on Cold Start”: Long-Term Implications of Short-Range Missiles0
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- July 23, 2017
Maimuna Ashraf “Nasr has put cold water on Cold Start” is the statement that buzzed the headlines recently after Pakistan successfully undertaken a series of training launches and test/trials of its short-range surface to surface ballistic missile. This development grabbed the attention of critics on Nasr’s improved technical parameters to counterweight Indian Cold Start Doctrine
READ MOREQatar scores, at least on the soccer pitch0
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- July 23, 2017
By James M. Dorsey Qatar won more than a symbolic victory with a decision by European soccer body UEFA to award controversial television network Al Jazeera’s sport franchise, BeIN Spots, the Middle Eastern and North African broadcasting rights for two of soccer’s most prestigious club competitions — the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League.
READ MOREEducation: A Privilege Of The Rich In The Third World0
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- July 22, 2017
By Nauman Sadiq We commit a big fallacy when we assume that our educational accomplishments are our individual achievements. We like to believe that we were born with a certain innate talent which makes us intellectually superior to all the rest. But the fact of the matter is that our innate talents aren’t all
READ MOREUS moves against Iran raise spectre of wider regional conflict0
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- July 22, 2017
President Trump visits Saudi Arabia By James M. Dorsey US President Donald J. Trump. in a step that could embolden Saudi Arabia to move ahead with plans to destabilize Iran, has instructed White House aides to give him the arguments for withholding certification in October that Iran has complied with its nuclear agreement with world
READ MORESC Order on Manipur Fake Encounters is a Step Forward in Long Road to Justice0
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- July 21, 2017
By Arijit Sen on 20/07/2017 The order may or may not bring closure and peace to the victims’ families, but it has renewed hope for justice in areas where the AFSPA is in force. Women hold placards during a protest against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act. Credit: Reuters On July 14, the fight against extrajudicial
READ MOREDoklam Standoff: Misunderestimating Bhutan’s Sovereignty1
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- July 21, 2017
By Omair Ahmad on 20/07/2017 Today, as two Asian powers face off with Bhutan at the centre of this delicate situation, the outcome will show whether the Asian century has a chance to be a peaceful one, or whether it will replay the violence of the colonial period. Jawaharlal Nehru at Paro 1958. Credit: India
READ MOREIs Doklam China’s way of telling India to ‘behave’ in the seas?0
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- July 21, 2017
by N Sathiya Moorthy ‘Little did those in India’s strategic community realise that any wise adversary in China’s place and circumstances would only take the land route to disturb and trouble India….It is along the land border that all of India’s post-Cold War allies would be of little or no political and diplomatic, and least
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The Gulf crisis: A battle of megalomaniacs0
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- July 21, 2017
Source: The World Bank By James M. Dorsey There are fundamental problems in trying to learn lessons or draw conclusions from the Gulf crisis for the role of small states in international relations. For one, the Gulf crisis is an epic battle between small states rather than simply one small state being targeted
READ MOREWhy does India make national awards fake? Now cricket mafias try to boost the image of Indian women cricketers for Bharat Ratna?0
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- July 20, 2017
DR. ABDUL RUFF COLACHAL Unfortunately, India is suffering from ill-focusing on national award by easiest ways and cricketers think they can get national awards by using corporate lords who got the Congress government to offer Bharat Ratna- the highest national honor for hard work- to a fake sport boy Sachin Tendulkar of his fake 100s
READ MORECHINA’S WAR CRY FRIGHTEN THE ASIAN COUNTRIES0
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- July 20, 2017
In the last few weeks, spokesman of Government of China have been issuing several statements and making observations against India that sound like a war cry. 1962 war between India and China was mentioned, as a reminder to India of the happenings then, which virtually amounts to a warning that events of 1962 could be
READ MOREIndia on the absolute path: PM Modi and Hindutva illegal operations in Gandhian India! (Story of Indian fanaticism, secularism, and Muslims)0
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- July 20, 2017
-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal Indian Hindutva looks very close to criminal Zionism of Israel that brutally occupies Palestine, and unless the trend is checked legally, it could harm the nations and the entire world. If PM Modi is opposed to Hindus murdering Muslims in cow’s name, why can’t he initiate legal action against Hindutva
READ MOREIndia China Doklam Stand-off: The war of thoughts0
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- July 20, 2017
By Avinash Kumar For the last four weeks, Dokalam area near the Bhutan Tri-junction has become a strategic hotbed for the unarmed and propaganda conflict for India and China. The deadlock is over the construction of a road by the Chinese in Dokalam area. It all started when a Chinese road construction party was questioned
READ MOREPost coup foreign policy of Turkey!0
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- July 18, 2017
July 2017 -Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal Foreign policy of Turkey under President Erdogan has been both prudent and assertive, tactfully protecting all genuine national interest of the former Ottoman Empire by linking domestic with foreign policy in the background of an anti-Islamic environment across the world where the GST (Global State Terror) forces led by
READ MORETrump’s Afghanistan Strategy Is Simply Old Wine in a New Bottle0
- Blog, Issue 22 - Fall 2017
- July 18, 2017
If America goes all-in on Afghanistan and fails, it’ll be easier to walk away. Michael Kugelman July 16, 2017 Afghanistan has suffered through a harrowing summer, even by the nightmarish standards of a country convulsed by conflict for decades. On May 31, a truck bomb exploded in Kabul’s heavily fortified diplomatic enclave, killing more than
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