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A.Q.Khan Gagged , Threatened With In Camera Trial
There has been widespread disapproval in Pakistan of the interviews given by Dr.A.Q.Khan, the detained Pakistani nuclear scientist, to...

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Jul 6, 200817 min read
Nuclear Wal-Mart: US as Guilty Of Cover-Up as Pakistan
I do not wish it, but I apprehend that if there is an act of terrorism involving nuclear material in the US homeland by Al Qaeda, it...

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Jul 5, 200818 min read
Count-Down to Beijing Olympics
While the Falun Gong has kept up its public campaign against the Beijing Olympics due in August, the Tibetan supporters of the Dalai Lama...

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Jul 1, 20086 min read
China Doing a Myanmar in Sri Lanka?
Is China doing a Myanmar in Sri Lanka by capitalising on the policy of President Mahinda Rajapaksa of diversifying Sri Lanka’s...

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Jun 27, 20088 min read
India’s Record in Counter-Terrorism : Good, Bad or Mixed?
If one is required to evaluate India’s record in its counter-terrorism efforts in one word, the answer has to be “mixed”, but that would...

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Jun 26, 200818 min read
Sri Lanka:Putting Indian Delegation's Visit in Perspective
The unpublicised two-day visit of a high power Indian delegation consisting of the National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan, Foreign...

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Jun 26, 20087 min read
Asia's Challenging Strategic Calculus
Introductory Observations Asia’s strategic calculus contemporarily is in a state of flux and dominated by strategic uncertainties due to...

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Jun 24, 20088 min read
Olympics Torch Relay: Intriguing Absence of Panchen Lama
AS REPORTED BY JAMES REYNOLDS OF THE BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION: ” The Olympic torch has been carried through the Tibetan...

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Jun 22, 20085 min read
Deepening Political Crisis in Sri Lanka
The theme of this seminar, “Deepening Political Crisis in Sri Lanka”, may be an under-statement. The current situation in Sri Lanka is in...

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Jun 22, 20088 min read
China: Dalai Lama accused of “selling out” Chinese territory with Intention to Sow Discord in Sino-I
Reacting to Indian press reports (4 June 2008) about the statement made for the first time by the Dalai Lama that the “McMahon line”,...

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Jun 11, 20083 min read
China: An Internal Account of “ Startling Inside Story of Sino-Indian Border Talks"
A briefing to the domestic audience in China about the Sino-Indian border issue has always been a rare event; marking one such occasion...

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Jun 10, 20086 min read
Sichuan After the Quake: Keeping the Fingers Crossed
The after-shocks after the earth quake, which struck the Wenchuan area of the Sichuan province of China on May 12,2008, and killed an...

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Jun 9, 20084 min read
Pranab Mukherjee's China visit- Ill Timed and Unproductive
Ahead of any Minister’s foreign jaunt for whatever inconsequential purpose, the spin doctors of the Ministry concerned invariably try to...

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Jun 8, 20086 min read
Gwadar: Gilani Govt. Orders Enquiry
In a statement disseminated by a Pakistani TV channel on May 31,2008, Pakistan’s Minister for Ports and Shipping, Mr. Qamar Zaman Kaira,...

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Jun 5, 20086 min read
Pranab Mukherjee's Second Visit to China
Shri Pranab Mukherjee, who visited China as the Defence Minister in June 2006, is now visiting the country again as the Minister for...

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Jun 4, 20086 min read
Terrorism:An Indian Perspective
( The article is based on two extempore interventions made by the writer at an international conference on ” Terrorism: Threat Or...

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Jun 2, 200823 min read
China: Indian Foreign Minister to visit Beijing- A Curtain Raiser
India’s Minister for External Affairs, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, is to pay an official visit to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) at the...

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Jun 2, 20087 min read
China's Future Course
The examination of Chinese media attack on “Western Anti-China Forces” (Reference C3S No.156 dated 11 May 2008), is useful in opening up...

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May 15, 20082 min read
Olympic Flame Set for Everest Climb
As the olympic torch reaches the culmination stage of its world run in Vietnam, a special lantern lit from the same flame has been taken...

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Apr 29, 20085 min read
Kevin Rudd: All The Way With China
“A puzzling question for the Chinese is: How can India put all its strategic policy eggs in the baskets of three sunset leaders, namely,...

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Apr 24, 20085 min read
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