NEW DELHI - Now that the Western powers have reached a deal with Russia and China to refer Iran's nuclear activities to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), a serious escalation of tensions with Tehran is in the cards. While Russia and China are sending...
Bumpy Ride for Indo-US Nuclear Deal
NEW DELHI - The "nuclear cooperation" agreement signed by United States President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, six months ago in Washington, has run into trouble over separation of India's civilian installations from the military....
Iran Opens Nuclear Locks – and a Hornet’s Nest
Now that Iran has broken the seals it put two and a half years ago on an atomic research facility at Natanz, 250 km (155 mi.) south of Tehran, the threat of escalating conflict centered on the Western powers' effort to halt its nuclear activities looms large. The...
Nuclear Clouds Gather
Over Asia
NEW DELHI - The Asia-Pacific region has not only emerged as one of the main engines of the world economy, it has also taken the global center stage in developments pertaining to nuclear weapons and efforts to acquire a capability to make them. From Iran and Israel in...
Indian Nuclear Deal With US Turns Faustian Bargain
NEW DELHI - Indian leaders are finding, to their dismay, that they confront far tougher choices in implementing a controversial nuclear agreement they signed with the United States than they had bargained for. These choices pertain to a sequence of steps New Delhi...
India Abandons Global Nuclear Disarmament
NEW DELHI – Seven years after blasting its way into the world's "nuclear club," India has executed a major shift in its policy stance by jettisoning its long-standing advocacy of global nuclear disarmament in favor of nuclear non-proliferation. On...
Playing Politics as Quake Toll Rises
NEW DELHI - Even as the death toll from the Oct. 8 earthquake mounts in India and more so in Pakistan, the two governments are injecting shrewd calculations of self-interest into their relief programs. Rather than efficiently helping survivors in divided Kashmir, the...
India Ditches Iran and Nonalignment
NEW DELHI - By voting for a Western-sponsored resolution at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), meant to reprimand Iran, India has signaled the collapse of its long-standing policy of nonalignment. Capping recent agreements signed with the United States on...
India Outfoxed as Pakistan Plays the Israel Card
Pakistan has stunned the world – and its subcontinental neighbor and rival India – by making an overture to Israel, which it long shunned and condemned as a Zionist state. On Thursday, Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri met his Israeli counterpart...
Europe Plays Nuclear Poker With Iran
The Iranian government's threat to resume limited nuclear activities after the European Union (EU) missed a deadline on Sunday to offer new incentives is clearly part of a calculated attempt to mount pressure on the EU-3 (Britain, France, and Germany). The EU-3 has...