Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 05:50
Paper No. 6220 Dated 08-Feb-2017
Guest Column by Alexander Murray
On 4 February, the UN Security Council (UNSC) agreed to remove Hezb-e-Islami-e-Gulbuddin (HIG) power-broker and former Afghan Prime Minister, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, from its international sanctions list. Having negotiated a truce with HIG and settled on the peaceful terms of Hekmatyar’s reintegration into Afghan civil society, the government of President Ashraf Ghani is sure to welcome the news.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 01/17/2017 - 07:02
Paper No. 6214 Dated 17-Jan-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Afghanistan seemed to have disappeared from the United States radar in the months to the run-up to US Presidential Elections resulting in a void which the China-Pakistan-Russia Troika has exploited to US disadvantage.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 01/16/2017 - 07:15
Paper No. 6213 Dated 16-Jan-2017
By Bhaskar Roy
The Chinese official newspaper, the Global Times (January 11) in an article entitled “Indian arms same to Hanoi disturbing if aimed at China”, warned New Delhi that India must desist from doing to China what China does to India.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 12/30/2016 - 06:16
Paper No. 6209 Dated 30-Dec-2016
Guest Column by Alexander Murray
Earlier this month, the Afghan government of President Ashraf Ghani made requests of the UN Security Council (UNSC) that Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and his political affiliate, Hezb-e-Islami-ye-Gulbuddin (HIG), be removed of international sanctions.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 12/29/2016 - 05:48
Paper No. 6208 Dated 29-Dec-2016
by Dr Subhash Kapila
The China-Pakistan-Russia Troika having emerged on the South Asian geopolitical scene now with undisguised contours and political signalling emerges as India’s foremost foreign policy challenge in 2017.
The China-Pakistan Axis has been in existence from 1963 onwards but the addition of Russia to the China-Pakistan Axis leading to its emergence as the China-Pakistan-Russia Troika is a phenomenon of recent vintage.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Tue, 12/20/2016 - 10:59
Paper No. 6206 Dated 20-Dec-2016
By Bhaskar Roy
Depression can be treated. But self-inflicted deception which hurts neighbours can be controlled to an extent if the patient is locked up in a padded cell. This self-deception is like a jigsaw puzzle with a few pieces missing, frustrating everyone including even Pakistan itself.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 12/19/2016 - 15:51
Paper No. 6205 Dated 19-Dec-2016
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Fluidity in global geopolitical dynamics on verge of 2017 centring on USA, Russia and China with consequent impact on Indian foreign policy is already evident with the initial posturing of US President-elect Trump.
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