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VIJAY DIVAS COMMEMORATIVE SEMINAR

Coinciding with the commemoration of Vijay Divas, Vivekananda International Foundation held a day-long seminar on “Recent Developments in J&K and Response Options”. An array of distinguished personalities from diverse areas of governance, and the....

July 27, 2010 National Security and Strategic Studies , Seminars , Vijay Divas , Recent Developments in J&K , Muzaffar Baig
MR WENCHYI ONG’S INTERACTION AT VIF

Mr Wenchyi Ong, head of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre in New Delhi had a lively interaction on July 21st with a cross section of the Indian business community, security analysts, former diplomats, the academe and scholars at the Vivekananda....

July 22, 2010 International Relations and Diplomacy , Interaction , China , Taiwan , Wenchyi Ong , Taipei
It would be an error to talk to Pakistan again
Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

he major lesson we should draw from the foreign minister-level talks is that Pakistan is not serious about addressing our concerns on terrorism. This should have been clear to us long ago because we have been talking to Pakistan on terrorism ever ....

July 20, 2010 Pakistan
China-Pakistan Railway Project
Debasish Chaudhuri

There were considerable enthusiasms in Pakistan prior to President Asif Ali Zardai’s visit to China which ended with much less triumph because the two main areas of negotiations, namely, civil nuclear energy cooperation and China-Pakistan railway l....

July 19, 2010 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
India-Pak talk: TRUST DEFICIT AND CURRENCY OF HOPE
Amb Kanwal Sibal

It is not clear what External Affairs Minister’s visit to Pakistan in mid-July can realistically achieve in bridging the trust deficit between India and Pakistan. This distrust spans sixty three years. So long as Pakistan persists with its claim on....

July 17, 2010 Pakistan
Ensnare Pakistan in Afghanistan
Sushant Sareen

With the Americans having conceded a central role to Pakistan in the latest round of the never-ending ‘endgame’ in Afghanistan, the spectre of Taliban returning to power in Kabul is all too real for countries with vital interests in Afghanistan t....

July 17, 2010 Afghanistan
A China-Pak Nuclear Axis Against India
Amb Kanwal Sibal

The issues involved in China’s sale of two more nuclear reactors need to be better understood. Arguments that India, as a non-NPT state, has itself secured a nuclear deal with the US and therefore has little ground to oppose a China-Pakistan nuclea....

July 14, 2010 Nuclear and Disarmament
Reflecting upon Urumqi Riot on its First Anniversary
Debasish Chaudhuri

Last year summer, the northwestern city of Urumqi experienced an unprecedented outburst of ethnic tension between the Han and the Uyghur communities. The riot popularly came to be known as “July 5th incident” (七五事件). The significance of t....

July 12, 2010 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
PAK ACTIONS NOT DIALOGUE WILL REDUCE TRUST DEFICIT
Amb Kanwal Sibal

It is easy to take the position that we must have a dialogue with Pakistan. It can be argued that as Pakistan is a neighbour, and cannot be wished away, we have to talk to it whatever the provocation. Not talking will not make it more disposed to set....

July 06, 2010 Pakistan
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari’s another Sojourn to China
Debasish Chaudhuri

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari’s frequent visits to China in his short stint of less than two years in power, throw considerable light on the bilateral relations between the two countries. China usually feels more comfortable in dealing with ....

July 06, 2010 International Relations and Diplomacy , China
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