With the announcement by India's ruling coalition that it will ask for the dissolution of the Lower House of Parliament on Feb. 6, the country is all set for national elections to get underway probably five months before the term of the House ends. By all indications,...
Efforts at achieving normal relations and peace between South Asian rivals India and Pakistan have collapsed or run into a dead-end so many times in the past. Thus, it is only rational to ask if their latest attempt at a breakthrough is for real and likely to succeed....
Revelations that Pakistan's scientists may have helped Iran's and Libya's secret nuclear programs raise worrisome questions about nuclear danger in South Asia, which has been described as the world's most dangerous place. They also call for major policy changes and...
Even as they enforce a ceasefire along the Kashmir border and make other peace overtures to each other, India and Pakistan continue to fight each other in multilateral forums. They famously indulged in a slugfest three months ago at the U. N. General Assembly. The...
This past April 18, India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee raised many hopes when he offered Pakistan "the hand of friendship" from a public rally at Srinagar, the capital of Indian Kashmir. The greatest of these hopes was that South Asia's long, dark night of...
India, which criticised the United States-led invasion of Iraq, is under intense pressure from Washington to despatch a division (about 17,000 troops) or more of its soldiers to that country to help the Anglo-American occupation forces and legitimise the occupation....
More than a week after President George W. Bush launched his "shock and awe" campaign against Iraq in flagrant violation of international law and the will of the world community, there is growing popular revulsion, disgust and anger in India at the gory...
Just a day before United States President George W. Bush delivered a fresh diatribe against Iraq in his State of the Union address, India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee did something unexpected. He appealed to the Great Powers to show "great...
Just a day before United States President George W. Bush delivered a fresh diatribe against Iraq in his State of the Union address, India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee did something unexpected. He appealed to the Great Powers to show "great...
As nuclear taboos of various kinds get weakened and violated the world over, India and Pakistan are drawing each other into the vortex of a potentially ruinous nuclear and missile arms race. They are transiting from a posture of demonstrating an assured capability to...
