A paper prepared for presentation at a seminar on “Strategic Contours of India – China Relations” at Vizag, on July 14-15, 2011 China is...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is 76 today. Happy returns of the day Your Holiness. 2. The day passed off without any incident in the...

Rural Thailand has struck back in the general elections held on July, 3,2011. And with what vehemence! 2. Since 2006, it was deprived of...

China is not Tunisia or Egypt. 2. That is the message that the Chinese political leadership headed by President Hu Jintao and Prime...

INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO. 729 Pakistan’s post-Abbottabad sulking and partly-real, partly-manufactured anti-US anger have...

As Indian Foreign Secretary Ms. Nirupama Rao heads to Pakistan for the next round of Foreign Secretary-level talks, she would be under no...

The recent sharpened hostility between China on the one hand and Vietnam and the Philippines on the other, over the South Sea Islands of...

Through articles in the Chinese Communist Party controlled media that appeared on June 20 and 21, 2011, the Chinese authorities have...

One can see that the intensity of the ongoing competition between China and Vietnam in claiming sovereignty over two disputed South China...

Mrs.NirupamaRao, India’s Foreign Secretary, and her Pakistani counterpart Mr.Salman Bashir are to meet at Islamabad on June 23 and...

International Terrorism Monitor — Paper No 727 The “New York Times” (June 15,2011) has claimed that the Pakistani authorities have...

Independently of each other, China and Iran seem to be developing doubts in their mind about the ability of the Pakistani Armed Forces...

The Chinese language media have recently highlighted the beginning of night flight operations from Kunming (Yunnan) to Gongga (arrival...

Sri Lanka watchers in Tamil Nadu were hoping that the Governor’s address to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on June 3, 2011 will be...

BNP spokesperson Maruf Kamal Shoel informed the media in Dhaka (May 31) that the party’s Chairperson Ms. Khaleda Zia, who had just...

One would think with 60 years of all weather friendship Pakistani leaders, (especially in the military and intelligence), would have...

Way back in 2005 South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG) carried my analysis on the possible impact of induction of the P-3C Orion in our...

Sri Lanka had been at war with itself for several years and sections of international community are getting sensitized to the horrendous...

There is still confusion about the total number of terrorists involved in the daring commando-style attack on PNS Mehran, the...

In a video conferencing with the Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on May 12, 2011, President Ma...