The author’s own orchestration of the opening of relations with China gives an extra piquancy to his views on Iran: if the US can engage with one isolated regional superpower, why not another? No clash of civilisations or end of history – this argument for a balance of power is the summation of Kissinger’s thinking Western politicians who last year …

Pakistan’s first major foreign policy decision was obligated by India’s hostility, manifest in refusal to respect the principles of the partition and transfer Pakistan’s share of British India’s assets, including the ordnance stores that left Pakistan’s Armed forces of 50,000 men without weapons for defence. In order to secure its independence, the new born state was in need of funds. …

Facts 1. Incheon was awarded the right to host the Games on April 17, 2007, after it defeated Delhi, India in the race. Official Name: The 17th Asian Games Incheon, 2014 Duration: September 19 – October 4, 2014 Competition Venues: 49 Participants: 13,000 athletes and officials Participating Countries: 45 members of the Olympic Council of Asia Total Medals: 439 in …

Governance is generally conceived of as the exercise of economic, political and administrative authority in the public and private spheres to manage a country’s affairs at all levels in order to improve the quality of life of the people. It is a continual process where divergent opinions and desires are satisfied through compromise and tolerance in a spirit of cooperative …

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to India — from 17-19 September — generated a lot of interest, even anxiety. Indian Premier Narendra Modi rolled out the red carpet for the visiting president. The two sides signed as many as 12 agreements committing $ 20 billion Chinese investment in India over the next five years. China is to help India …

While Washington has been preoccupied with a burning Middle East, Russia behaving badly and, to a lesser extent, the rise of China, US relations with India have slipped down the diplomatic priority list. In coming decades, however, enormous, unwieldy India will likely be the United States’ most important continental partner in Asia. Modi, a Hindu nationalist who successfully brought economic …

A whistleblower is an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it. Whistleblowers frequently face reprisal, sometimes at the hands of the organization or group which they have accused, sometimes from related organizations, and sometimes under law. Here is a list of world’s 5 most famous whistleblowers. 1. Daniel Ellsberg A former US military analyst …

THE JOURNEY STARTS WITH A BANG!, THINGS FALL APART, DEMOCRACY: À LA AFGHANISTAN, HAPLESSLY YOURS, MY LORD!, NOBEL FOR THE NOBLE, A CRIPPLING DISHONOUR, SYMBOLIC YET SIGNIFICANT, ROUTED OR VINDICATED?, OUR NATIONAL SHAME, THE SOCIAL MEDIA REVOLUTION THE JOURNEY STARTS WITH A BANG! On Sep 22, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s initial public offering now ranks the world’s biggest in history …

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In Pakistan, democracy zigzagged over time. It got overrun by the top brass and it bounced back only to be pushed aside by the establishment, time and again. It is a sad story of ambitious generals, inept politicians, docile judges, some weak-kneed civil servants, wayward youth, insufferable feudal lords, myopic clerics and an ineffectual civil society as well as international …