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Sri Lanka: Learning it from Bangladesh!0
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- April 20, 2018
Sathiya Moorthy 18 April 2018 For all those, both inside Sri Lanka and outside, who want an ‘instant closure’ to war-crimes probe and all, they only need to look at fellow South Asian nation Bangladesh. Full four decades and more after the ‘Bangladesh freedom war’, the nation has put those that indulged in
READ MOREEconomic Growth Can Help Afghanistan0
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- April 20, 2018
M Ashraf Haidari | APR 18, 2018 SYRIA, North Korea, and Yemen have largely dominated headlines. But Afghanistan also remains in the global conscience. If anything, the much-needed international focus on the campaign against the Taliban has outlined how difficult the fight has become, despite our steady military gains. Frustrated with what many are mistakenly
READ MOREImpact of Pak-China relations on Sino-India relations0
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- April 19, 2018
Sino-Indian relations have undergone significant changes in last five decades. India and China, however, are seen as important emerging powers in Asia. Their relations went through an active phase of rivalry in the years between 1960’s and 1970’s and then towards cooperation for peace, or some may call it Rapprochement policy after the end of
READ MORECONTRAST IN THE APPROACH OF USA AND ALLIES TOWARDS SYRIA AND TIBET0
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- April 19, 2018
N.S. Venkataraman For over seven years, civil war has been going on in Syria between the Syrian government and the rebels. Thousands of people have been killed, many more have been injured, and a large number of people have left Syria and sought asylum in Europe. In the civil war in Syria, the Syrian
READ MOREBhutan’s China Policy0
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- April 19, 2018
Abstract Bhutan and China represent two ends of the international system, one being a small power and the other a great power. The annexation of Tibet by China and Bhutan’s close historical and political affinity with India put Bhutan into a dilemma and force always them to pose a question – ‘how to deal with
READ MORESri lanka: A bull, a buffalo and a cart!0
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- April 18, 2018
N Sathiya Moorthy 17 April 2018 JVP’s Anura Kumara Dissanayake may be right in drawing the parallel: that just now, the ‘yahapalana government’ is like a “cart pulled by a bull and a water buffalo, yoked together – and pulling in two different directions”. But then, he too missed the point: where is the man
READ MOREThe Saudi Export of Ultra-conservatism in the Era of MbS – an Update0
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- April 18, 2018
by James M. Dorsey 18/4/2018 Edited remarks at The Middle East and the Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University and the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC 18-19 April 2018 There has long been the debate about the
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Negating Nuclear Bluff0
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- April 14, 2018
Asma Khalid 14/4/2018 The war of words between India and Pakistan’s militaries prove that both South Asian nuclear states are intertwined in a traditional security competition. Indian Army Chief Gen. Bipin Rawat, while delivering the annual Army dinner, stated:”We will call the (nuclear) bluff of Pakistan. If we will have to confront the Pakistanis,
READ MOREHow would John Bolton in NSA Impact Pakistan?0
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- April 14, 2018
by Ubaid Ahmed 14/4/2018 Despite the triumphs Pakistan has had in curbing terrorism, the NSA John Bolton doesn’t believe that Pakistan is internally strong enough to thwart an assumed Islamist takeover of the state. President Trump on March 23rd announced in a tweet that he was removing H.R. McMaster from his post of National Security
READ MOREINDIAN TV MEDIA NOW RARELY RESPONSIBLE, HONEST AND NEUTRAL0
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- April 14, 2018
N. S. Venkataraman 14/4/2018 It is now very well known that the entire private TV media in India are owned by business houses or political parties, which largely function with the twin objectives of earning revenue and profit at any cost and carrying out motivated propaganda with partisan outlook, to serve the interest of
READ MORESo-called Nepal Experts In India Create Havoc Between Two Countries’ Relationship0
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- April 14, 2018
BY HARI PRASAD SHRESTHA 14/4/2018 During the recent India visit of Nepal Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli, it has been observed that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted, to some level that he was misguided by the so-called Nepal experts – during the promulgation of Constitution of Nepal in 2015 and Nepal India
READ MOREWhy TN turned its back on Modi0
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- April 13, 2018
N Sathiya Moorthy 13 April 2018 Thursday’s protests across Tamil Nadu was less pro-Cauvery and more anti-Modi in character and content — including in it various development projects in the state that are perceived as ‘environmentally unfriendly’ and hence ‘anti-Tamil’, says N Sathiya Moorthy. If the ruling BJP leadership at the Centre had thought that through the
READ MORETurning Qatar into an Island: Saudi cuts off its nose to spite its face0
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- April 13, 2018
By James M. Dorsey 13/4/2018 There’s a cutting-off-the-nose-to-spite-the face aspect to a Saudi plan to turn Qatar into an island by digging a 60-kilometre ocean channel through the two countries’ land border that would accommodate a nuclear waste heap as well as a military base. If implemented, the channel would signal the kingdom’s belief that
READ MOREAggressive Indian posture, Kashmir human rights violations feed extremism: Husain Haqqani0
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- April 13, 2018
April 12, 2018 New Delhi: Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, told an Indian audience that an aggressive Indian posture and human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir feed the extremist narrative in Pakistan and Indians neither encourage centrifugal forces or nor express the desire for the collapse of the Pakistani state.
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