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A Deepening Mess - Pakistan is again exploiting India’s eagerness for dialogue
March 13 , 2011 Amb Kanwal Sibal
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Apropos our decision to resume a “comprehensive” dialogue with Pakistan, the question needs to be asked why we want to play the same game with our neighbour again and again when we know that it does not...

International Relations and Diplomacy

Defence Capability Vs Defence Expenditure
March 8 , 2011 Arun Sahgal Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF
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One of the most keenly watched part of the Union budget is the allocations of funds for defence expenditure. Given the prevailing security environment, modernization of the armed forces and keeping them...

Defence

Peace with India and Democracy Can Save Pakistan
March 8 , 2011 Amb Kanwal Sibal
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Increasingly, Pakistan is being viewed as a dysfunctional state by the international community. The assassination of another Pakistani Minister for opposing the pernicious blasphemy law is causing more ...

Pakistan

India's Deafening Silence On The Tumult In The Arab World
February 27 , 2011 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Sushant Sareen
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“The worst place in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral during a moral crisis”: Dante
An Exploration of Sri Lankan Strategy in the Aftermath of LTTE
February 27 , 2011 D. Gnanagurunathan
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Sri Lanka offering Pakistan and China a greater role to end the ethnic conflict perhaps can be explained through India’s reluctance to intervene in the conflict. But in the post-LTTE Sri Lanka, the incr...

Sri Lanka

India doesn't need advice from others in responding to Egypt
February 23 , 2011 Amb Kanwal Sibal
Views: 4013
Criticism of India’s perceived reluctance to endorse the democratic urgings surfacing in many Arab countries is misplaced. The Indian media has, of course, covered the upsurge in Egypt very extensively,...

International Relations and Diplomacy

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