Apart from alleviating the material plight of the people, transforming the feudal mindset and operationalising reforms to induce fair play and social justice should be one of the long term priority areas for the civilian government in Pakistan.

• Medha Bisht |
• August 19, 2010 |
• Comment

In international conflict resolution, there is a term called ‘disaster diplomacy’, which explains how a disaster in one country may open new ways of interaction and how it brings a new perspective to persisting issues.

• Mehmet Ozkan |
• August 18, 2010 |
• Comment

A clean-up operation by the Pakistan Army could actually end up sharpening the ethnic polarisation in the city, which in turn could lead to the conflagration that everyone in Karachi fears.

• Sushant Sareen |
• August 18, 2010 |
• Comment

While there are many positive developments between Vietnam and the US, it is still to be seen how the elites and military in Vietnam interpret US overtures.

• Pankaj K Jha |
• August 18, 2010 |
• Comment

India needs to chalk out a new paradigm of engagement with the emerging Nepal in which economic and border management issues are prioritised over political issues.

• Arvind Gupta |
• August 18, 2010 |
• Comment

The Services have been doctrinally fecund over the past decade, with each Service bidding to pursue relatively distinct campaigns, which would amount to lack of synergy and the whole failing to rise higher than the sum of its parts.

• Ali Ahmed |
• August 16, 2010 |
• Comment

Only through direct negotiations with Iran can the international community influence and possibly alter the strategic calculus of its rulers.

• Mahan Abedin |
• August 13, 2010 |
• Comment

The anger and frustration of the people against the political parties and the nimble footed response of the Islamists will result in disaffection of people towards the state and rising support for the jihadis.

• Rumel Dahiya |
• August 12, 2010 |
• Comment

The cloudburst in the high altitude cold desert region of Ladakh of the first week of August 2010 is not the usual but an extreme weather event.

• P. K. Gautam |
• August 11, 2010 |
• Comment

If India is indeed interested in being a ‘rule-maker’ in a multilateral world, alternative approaches to persisting problems is the basic component of it.

• Mehmet Ozkan |
• August 11, 2010 |
• Comment