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Can India and China work for a ‘new normal’ in regional relations?0
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- June 21, 2018
N Sathiya Moorthy 20 June 2018 Whatever was believed, talked and written about for months and years since the sudden end of the ‘Cold War’, the informal, two-day Wuhan Summit has suddenly halted all doomsday predictions on India’s China relations. Now after the pre-scheduled Qingdao SCO Summit, where the leaders of the two nations met for
READ MOREOne Unit Scheme of Pakistan, 1955-1970 revisited0
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- June 19, 2018
Dr. Rajkumar Singh 19/6/2018 As administrative divisions formed a basic tier of the government at independence in 1947, the new nation of Pakistan was comprised by two wings-the eastern and western, separated by India. At the time three of the provinces of Pakistan were subdivided into ten administrative divisions. The single area
READ MOREBangladesh’s World Cup Frenzy; dribbling Beyond the Obvious0
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- June 19, 2018
By Adil Khan 19/6/2018 2018 Football World Cup frenzy in Bangladesh has left everyone astounded. Entire nation seems to have gone crazy over this year’s championship tournament. Supporters have divided themselves among their favourites and doing the most unthinkable to reveal their choices. For example, a guy in a village, a supporter of
READ MOREAfter the ‘abhaya’ row, Tamils can forget re-merger0
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- June 17, 2018
N Sathiya Moorthy 18 June 2018 It is anybody’s guess if the ‘abhaya row’ involving Muslim women teachers in the eastern Trincomallee’s Shanmuga College was motivated, or was only an expression of increasing Islamic traditions across the world. However, in the immediate Sri Lankan context, it has the potential to delay, if not deny,
READ MORECPEC: Pakistan’s ‘Chinanization’ or Colonization?0
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- June 17, 2018
By Adnan Qaiser 17/6/2018 Adnan Qaiser is a Research Associate at the prestigious Conference of Defence Associations Institute, Canada, with a distinguished career in the armed forces and international diplomacy. He examines Sino-Pak relations in the emerging new global order and can be reached at a.qaiser1@yahoo.com. It is said that in 1960 when Chinese Chairman
READ MOREIsrael adopts abandoned Saudi sectarian logic0
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- June 16, 2018
By James M. Dorsey 16/6/2018 Amid ever closer cooperation with Saudi Arabia, Israel’s military appears to be adopting the kind of sectarian anti-Shiite rhetoric that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is abandoning as part of a bid to develop a national rather than a religious ethos and promote his yet to be
READ MOREIndia’s Blood-Filled Kashmir Policy0
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- June 15, 2018
By Ishaal Zehra 15/6/2018 Indian Occupied Kashmir continue to witness bloodshed as Indian forces are indiscriminately and incessantly hunting down the innocent people in the name of so-called search operations. Though the Indian government announced to suspend these operations during the holy month of Ramadan, however, on the second Friday of the Ramadan, heavy shelling
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United Nations Human Rights Report on Kashmir: Response from India and Pakistan0
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- June 14, 2018
What is the report? United Nations has issued a report which mainly focused on the “situation of human rights in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir from July 2016 to April 2018. It is the period over which allegations of widespread and serious human rights violations were received, notably excessive use of force by
READ MOREIs Growing Populism threat to Liberal Democracies…?0
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- June 14, 2018
by Muzamil Yaqoob 14/6/2018 Francis Fukuyama, the US-based political scientist, argued in the early half of the nineteen-nineties that with the triumph of western liberal democracy the ideological evolution of humankind is completed. Liberal Democracy, he says ‘is now an ideal for all the states of the globe.’ As many political commentators believe that,
READ MOREPAKISTAN’S QUEST FOR NSG MEMBERSHIP AND ROLE OF CHINA0
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- June 14, 2018
by Qur Tul Ain Hafeez 14/6/2018 Pakistan has been trying to acquire the membership of the 48 member Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) for the past several years. Its quest for the NSG membership is not only limited to gain parity with India but, to meet the growing energy demands also. The international community is
READ MORE28th NSG Plenary: National Interests or Non-proliferation Norms0
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- June 14, 2018
By: Ahyousha Khan 14/6/2018 Another year has elapsed, and future of South Asian non-NPT states aspiring to become a member of Nuclear Suppliers Group is still hanging in the air. Now as 28th NSG plenary is approaching, the time has come to see whether the efforts made by India and Pakistan will be
READ MOREDefending Kashmir: Book Review0
- Commentary, Reviews
- June 14, 2018
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” This remark made by Napoleon Bonaparte is quite right in the context of India-Pakistan wars. Both the countries since partition defend their respective versions of past and continue to do so until today. Numerous accounts have been written on Kashmir war
READ MOREWhither the Kurds?0
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- June 12, 2018
This story was originally published in Europa Ethnica, Vol. ½, 2018 By James M. Dorsey Palestinians have long been known for a history of missing opportunities. By contrast, Kurds spread across several Middle Eastern nations appeared to have a keener understanding of geopolitics and were seemingly willing to embrace the art of the possible. All
READ MOREBook review: Left, Right and Centre: The Idea of India0
- Commentary, Reviews
- June 11, 2018
by Aejaz Ahmad Wani 11/6/2018 There has been much fuss about nationalism in India in the past few years. Catchphrases such as national/anti-national, anti-Hindu, anti-State, Sickularity, and intolerance have kept coming up in public sphere. This is nothing but a contestation on the Idea of India, whether the idea of India is reducible
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