NEW DELHI - Exasperated by what it regards as "a continuing pattern of evasiveness and denial in Pakistan's response to the terrorist attack on Mumbai," India seems to be fashioning a two-pronged approach towards Islamabad to get it to act firmly against terrorist...
‘Good Cop, Bad Cop’ Approach to Pakistan
NEW DELHI - Exasperated by what it regards as "a continuing pattern of evasiveness and denial in Pakistan's response to the terrorist attack on Mumbai," India seems to be fashioning a two-pronged approach towards Islamabad to get it to act firmly against terrorist...
New Anti-Terror Laws Draconian Say Activists
Following the late November terror attacks in Mumbai, India has passed two tough laws being seen by rights activists as potentially eroding the country’s federal structure and limiting fundamental liberties. Parliament – meeting under the shadow of the...
Lawmaker’s Disclosure May Torpedo Nuke Deal
NEW DELHI - Chances of the United States-India nuclear deal being completed have greatly receded with the release by a key US lawmaker of a so-far-secret Bush administration document which says Washington will not sell sensitive nuclear technologies to India and will...
Dialogue Missing as Kashmir Erupts
NEW DELHI - Even as the Jammu region of the strife-torn Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir is settling down to normality and peace, a two-month-old turmoil in the Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley shows no signs of abating. The Kashmir unrest, which unseated the elected...
US-India Nuclear Deal Headed for Fiasco
NEW DELHI - As the tortuous negotiations for the United States-India nuclear deal enters its final stage, it becomes clear that India seriously underestimated the discomfort and opposition the agreement would arouse in many countries because of the special privileges...
Deceptions Surface in US-India Nuclear Deal
The Indian government has taken a major step towards completing its controversial nuclear cooperation deal with the United States by moving the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency for approving an inspections (safeguards) agreement it signed...
India’s Singh Pushes for Nuclear Deal
NEW DELHI - India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has plunged his Congress Party and the country's ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government into a grave crisis by staking his personal reputation on pushing through a U.S.-India civilian nuclear cooperation...
India-Pakistan Peace Survives, Somehow
ISLAMABAD - As Pakistan stumbles toward democratization amid domestic political uncertainty, armed unrest led by Islamists along the Afghanistan border, and strained military relations with the U.S., a broad consensus in favor of the peace process with India survives...
One Last Push for India-US Nuke Deal
NEW DELHI - Faced with continuing domestic opposition to the United States-India nuclear cooperation deal, the Indian government has launched "one last push" to complete negotiations before the window of opportunity slams shut. But the chances of success for...