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29 Nov 2014

Pakistan: Why are Christians Being Persecuted?

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  Roomana Hukil   On 4 November 2014, a young Christian couple was publically set on fire in Punjab, Pakistan. It was alleged by a mob...

Myanmar: Why the Islamic State Failed Here

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  Aparupa Bhattacherjee   The Islamic State (IS) unilaterally declared an ‘Islamic Caliphate’ in Iraq and Syria in June 2014. This has...

US-Russia and Global Nuclear Security: Under a Frosty Spell?

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  Sheel Kant Sharma It is twenty years since acute concern about unauthorised and malevolent access to sensitive nuclear material and rad...

Machil Verdict and Eluding Justice

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  Shujaat Bukhari When an Army court martial handed over life imprisonment to five of its men including a Colonel for staging a fake enco...

Foreign Fighters of Pakistan: Why Pashtuns and Punjabis?

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  D Suba Chandran There is an international focus on the phenomenon of foreign fighters today; thanks to the unprecedented attraction tha...

Understanding the Attraction of Salafi and Wahhabi Movements

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  Saneya Arif   This year, 17 October 2014, celebrated as Sir Syed Day in the memory of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, founder of the Aligarh Mu...

China’s Endgame in Afghanistan

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  Teshu Singh   The US troops are expected to exit from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 but according to a recently signed Bilateral Se...

Iran-Pakistan: Can Rouhani Resolve the Tensions?

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  Majid Izadpanahi   Iran and Pakistan have been facing issues on the border relating to terrorism and drug trafficking for some time ...

Article 370 Bandwagon

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  Shujaat Bukhari On December 1, 2013, Prime Minister Narendra Modi (then Gujarat Chief Minister) created a stir when he called for a deb...
15 Nov 2014

NASR: DANGERS OF PAKISTAN'S SHORT RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE

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  Manpreet Sethi In April 2011, Pakistan tested a 60 km very short-range ballistic missile called Nasr and claimed it to be nuclear capab...

NAXALITES AND THE MIGHT OF A FRAGILE REVOLUTION

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  Bibhu Prasad Routray On the morning of 18 October 2014, Shiv Kumar, a personnel belonging to the Chhattisgarh Armed Police was pulled o...

INDIA'S NUCLEAR CAPABLE CRUISE MISSILE: THE NIRBHAY TEST

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  Sheel Kant Sharma India’s test of the nuclear capable cruise missile Nirbhay last week was immensely significant in two ways. First, it...

ROUHANI AND IRAN'S FOREIGN POLICY: CHARTING THE CHANGE

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  Majid Izadpanahi After the presidential elections of 14 June 2013, Iran’s Hassan Rouhani has proved that he is introducing changes in t...

MUSLIMS IN SRI LANKA: FOUR REASONS FOR THEIR MARGINALISATION

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  Roomana Hukil With the defeat of the Tamil Tigers after 26 years in 2009 in Sri Lanka, it was hoped that the Sri Lankan political space...

USING DEFENCE FOR DEVELOPMENT: NEW POLICY OPTIONS FOR INDIA

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  Bhartendu Kumar Singh   Defence and development have remained watertight compartments in India’s national security discourse and are...

UNSC RESOLUTION 2178: COMPROMISING DEMOCRATIC VALUES?

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  Tuva Julie Engebrethsen Smith   Over the course of this year, the threat of Islamist terror changed dramatically for the worse. 13,0...

JAMAAT-UL-MUJAHIDEEN BANGLADESH: DESIGNS AND NETWORKS IN INDIA

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  N Manoharan   In the wake of Burdwan blast, the Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh recently ordered an immediate neutralisation of t...