NEW DELHI - A month after President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan proposed a four-point formula to resolve the troubled question of Kashmir jointly with India, exploratory contacts between the two governments have gathered momentum. Their efforts at reconciling mutual...
Nuclear Disarmament Gets Critical
NEW DELHI - If prospects for nuclear weapons reduction took a turn for the worse in 2006, the New Year holds out little hope for containing proliferation. In October 2006, eight years after India and Pakistan crossed the nuclear threshold, the world witnessed yet...
India Split Over US Nuke Deal
NEW DELHI - While President George W. Bush has signed into law new legislation passed by Congress to enable the controversial U.S.-India nuclear cooperation deal, the agreement has come under flak in India's parliament, and a massive confrontation has broken out...
Indo-US Nuclear Deal Done; Pleases Few
NEW DELHI - One and a half years after it was signed, the nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and India has received highly qualified approval from U.S. Congress. As passed by Congress Friday, the Henry J. Hyde United States-India Peaceful Atomic...
China, India Make Progress – at No Cost to Pakistan
NEW DELHI - At the end of an important week-long visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao to South Asia, what does the complicated triangular relationship among Beijing, New Delhi, and Islamabad, three of Asia's four nuclear powers, look like? Going by conventional...
North Korea Wins Nuclear Poker Round
NEW DELHI - By announcing that it would return to the negotiation table and address the major powers' concerns about its nuclear program, North Korea may have scored an unlikely but impressive diplomatic victory. Pyongyang's move has put on the mat top officials of...
N. Korean Blast May Hit Indo-US Nuclear Deal
NEW DELHI - How is North Korea's atomic explosion, signifying the latest breakout from the global nuclear restraint regime, likely to affect the preceding two breakout cases, India and Pakistan? Eight years after the two South Asian states blasted their way into the...
Another Blow to Nonproliferation
North Korea has shocked the world by detonating a nuclear explosion and making good the threat it had held out six days earlier. Pyongyang's action is one more blow to the existing global nonproliferation order and will trigger greater instability in Northeast Asia...
Indo-US Nuclear Deal Hits Doldrums
NEW DELHI - The controversial United States-India "civilian nuclear cooperation" agreement met with a major setback over the weekend when the Senate formally went into recess without voting for a bill that would have granted President George W. Bush the...
Blasts Test India’s Counter-Terror Strategy
NEW DELHI - The three bomb explosions, which ripped through a mosque and an adjoining graveyard, killing 30 people in Malegaon in India's western state of Maharashtra on Sept. 8, have outraged the Indian public. They have also set some tough challenges before the...