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India's Strategic Culture and Security Challenges |
Delivering the 30th Bhimsen Sachar Memorial Lecture for 2009 in New Delhi, the former Chief of the Army Staff highlights the flaws in India's strategic thinking and stresses the need for a more focused and clearly defined vision for the future.
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Pakistan's existential dilemma |
How effectively Pakistan manages its conservative and radical sections of society will decide whether it steps into the future as a failed State or an emerging economy.
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South Asia Weekly Report |
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South Asia Weekly
8 February 2010 |
Vol III, Issue 5
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the country's main opposition, decided earlier this week to withdraw its boycott and return to the Parliament. BNP's decision has brightened prospects of the opposition joining the parliament after a gap of nearly eight months. |
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| Analysis |
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High growth and malnourishment
06 February 2010 |
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Jayshree Sengupta
Around 33 per cent of the women have below normal body mass, which shows the vulnerability of children and women to chronic diseases even in the 21st century |
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Protest in Kaliningrad rattles Kremlin
06 February 2010 |
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Ajish P Joy
Moscow took serious note of the event and President Dmitry Medvedev sent his envoy to the northwest region Ilya Klebanov and Deputy General-Prosecutor Aleksandr Gutsan to Kaliningrad for an emergency meeting |
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India in the new Bangladesh
03 February 2010 |
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Joyeeta Bhattacharjee
The Manmohan Singh government has placed high stakes on a new diplomatic breakthrough with Bangladesh, and therefore should constantly look for ways to top up cooperation for fear of reviving Sheikh Hasina's retrograde opponents |
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China's missile defence test: Yet another milestone?
02 February 2010 |
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Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
China's missile defence test has come against the backdrop of the US sale of weapons to Taiwan, including PAC-3 air defence missiles
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Chinese moves concern India and US
4 February 2010 |
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There has been a fundamental shift in the geopolitical scenario and the US views India as a country with parallel interests and shared concerns |
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Guarantee Afghanistan's neutrality
25 January 2010 |
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Discussions between the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) and the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) also saw a general agreement that the Taliban victory in Afghanistan will lead to a civil war with disastrous consequences for Pakistan |
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| Pakistan Urdu Media Watch |
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Why Hamid Gul wants to wage war with India
January 28, 2009 |
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Shahid Raheem, Vol I, Issue XII
Pakistan Urdu Media Watch Issue Twelve: In Pakistan Urdu Media Watch Issue Twelve find out why Osama wrote to Obama and how Pakistan is close to becoming a Somalia
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Obama's Global Zero Roadmap: Wake Up Call For India
01 February 2010 |
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Dilip Lahiri
US President Barak Obama's Prague speech in April 2009 on his vision of a nuclear weapon free world has established a new narrative for the nuclear disarmament discourse. While few doubt Obama's own sincerity, there is a widespread concern that, on the road ahead, the traditional nuclear establishment in Washington and elsewhere-with their nonproliferation agenda and aversion to abolition of nuclear weapons-may subvert the process. |
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The Coming Blowback: How Pakistan is Endangering the World
4 December 2009 |
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Wilson John, ORF-Rupa
Coming Blowback is an attempt to test the conventional wisdom about Pakistan and its war on terrorism. Reaching beyond the headlines and banners, the book documents, and investigates, what the War on Terror has missed so far. |
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| Annual Report |
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Annual Report 2009
15 October 2009 |
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OBSERVER RESEARCH FOUNDATION (ORF) is an endeavour to aid and influence formulation of policies for building a strong and prosperous India. The expectations of the global community from India are immense as the country is poised to play a leading role in the knowledge age. The Foundation believes that by 2020, India will be one of the world’s great economic powers and contribute to a significant transformation in the quality of life of humanity. |
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| National |
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| NSA is PM's adviser, not superspook |
| 29 January 2010 |
| Vikram Sood |
| The one advantage that may have slipped past the notice of many is that the new National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon |
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10 January 2010
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| It's Rajapaksa all the way |
| 27 January 2010 |
| N Sathiya Moorthy |
| The victory confirms earlier predictions that the fulcrum of national politics has moved away from the urban centres and their elite |
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| Mullen's Kashmir problem |
| 28 December 2009 |
| Wilson John |
| Admiral Mullen would like to dwell a little on the simple fact that if there were no American funded 'mujahideen' in Afghanistan, there would have been no terrorism in Asia |
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| Obama's confused policies |
| 17 December 2009 |
| Kanwal Sibal |
| Pakistan's cooperation against extremist groups has been selective, targetting those threatening its own stability |
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