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Pakistan: The Aasia Bibi Case and its Aftermath
November 13 , 2018 Tilak Devasher, Consultants, VIF Article View: 174
The controversy surrounding the blasphemy case of Pakistani citizen Aasia Noreen, better known as Aasia Bibi of village Ikkawali in Sheikhpura, Punjab, has drawn attention to the culture of extremism in Pakistan and showed the government and the army in a very poor light. It is only the Supreme Court that has come out with flying colours. The Case
Tags : Blasphemy law in Pakistan , Pakistan’s Aasia Bibi , Pakistan , Neighbourhood Studies
The Middle East and the Israeli Gains – Bridging the Diplomatic Divide
November 13 , 2018 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article View: 337
Gloom in Middle East
The Middle East has been wrenching and reeling under an unprecedented pressure during the last decade. In recent times, this has been further accentuated by self-inflicted goals and self-defeating regional diplomatic outreach and senseless military interventions.
Tags : Israel-Qatar Diplomacy , Khashoggi Affair , Saudi Regime , West Asia , International Relations and Diplomacy
Relevance of India's Nuclear Triad
November 12 , 2018 Ajit Kumar Commentary View: 372
It may be recalled that India's 1999 Draft Nuclear Doctrine had stated that its nuclear forces would be based on a triad of aircraft, mobile land-based missiles and sea-based assets. The summary of the official Nuclear Doctrine of 2003 also mentioned about maintaining a credible minimum deterrence, a posture of 'No First Use' and that any nuclear retaliation would be massive.
Tags : National Security and Strategic Studies , INS Arihant SSBN , Nuclear Triad , Defence
Moscow Regional Consultations on Afghanistan: Can India Play a Role?
November 10 , 2018 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Article View: 236
On 9 November 2018, Moscow organised regional consultations on Afghanistan which were attended by the Taliban’s Qatar office and the representatives of the Afghan High Peace Council. This was the first time that the Taliban and the representatives of the Afghan government were brought together under the Moscow format of regional consultations. The consultations scheduled for September had to be cancelled because of serious objections from President Ghani who had insisted that any reconciliation should be Afghan-led.
Tags : Afghanistan , Russia’s Afghanistan initiative , Taliban-Afghan meeting , Neighbourhood Studies
Bangladesh Elections: Growing Influence of ‘Hefazat’
November 8 , 2018 Abhijit Chakravertty Article View: 278
The announcement on October 26th at a party forum by Sheikh Hasina that the two foremost hard-line fundamentalist groups, viz. the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and the Hefazat-e-Islam(HeI), should be treated differently, was closely followed by the long delayed Election Commission notification on October 29th cancelling the registration of Jamaat as a political party.
Tags : Bangladesh elections , Bangladesh Islamist hard-line party , Bangladesh , Neighbourhood Studies
Imran Khan’s China visit: China’s Deafening Silence on Financial Bailout
November 6 , 2018 Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary View: 316
Imran Khan ’s much anticipated China visit took place from 2 to 5 November 2018 in the backdrop of Pakistan's desperate requirement of a financial bailout due to mounting balance of payment crisis, the rising concerns about the unsustainability of the costly projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), and spectacular climb-down by the Pakistan Government before the fundamentalist protest against the judgement of the Supreme Court freeing Aasia Bibi charged in a blasphemy case.
Tags : CPEC woes , Imran Khan’s China visit , Pakistan’s financial state , Pakistan , Neighbourhood Studies
West Asia Review, October, 2018
November 6 , 2018 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article View: 241
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) - Jamal Khashoggi Fiasco Saudi Arabia and its maverick Prince Mohammed Bin Salman called upon themselves the global criticism due to a botched up assassination of an insider-outsider critic in Khashoggi inside their Istanbul Consulate through the modus operandi and consequent conflicting statements on the issue.
Tags : Khashoggi murder , Saudi Arabia , Syrian conflict , West Asia , International Relations and Diplomacy
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