Int’l Affairs

Both the countries are expected to face opposition in their countries. BJP in India and the right wing parties in Pakistan have to accept the need to change their old stance. The main accused in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case, Swami Aseemanand, has confessed the working of terror network ‘Abinav Baharat.’ It has compelled India to invite Pakistan and …

China’s place in the global economy is such that other nations must adapt to this situation. China’s triumph in overtaking Japan as the world’s number two economy masks a worrisome over-reliance on exports and investment, and lagging social development, analysts said. Japan lost its 42-year hold on the second spot behind the United States in 2010, according to full-year data …

Ben Ali was only the second ruler the Tunisians had known in 53 years of independence from France. The word Tunisia is derived from Tunis, known to the Ancient Greeks as Tynes, the capital city of modern-day Tunisia. The name Tunis can be attributed to different origins. It may be associated with the Phoenician goddess Tanith, or to the Berber …

An interview with Dr. Farooq Hasnat, a scholar and an expert on ME affairs Uprising is not a usual thing to happen in the Middle East. People of this region have been seldom seen coming out on the streets to protest against the government or any institution. Egypt saw this happening. In the span of only 18 days the power …

History bears witness to the fact that in case of most of the revolutions, those poor and middle class people, who made these revolutions possible by their sweat and blood, were marginalized and the revolutions were highjacked by some other opportunists and power seekers. By the time Nelson Mandela finally came out of prison, after more than a quarter of …

Could it be that the uprising in Tunisia is the harbinger of an alternative for other Arab countries? It is extremely difficult to write about an ongoing event such as the Tunisian uprising (now called a revolution) since struggles of these kind tear asunder the certainties of the past and split open a future pregnant with several possibilities. While it …

Nuclear proliferation has been a cause of concern for the world community Nuclear proliferation is the spread of nuclear weapons, fissile material, and weapon-applicable nuclear technology and information, to nations which are not recognised as ‘Nuclear Weapon States’ by the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Nuclear proliferation has been a cause of concern for the world community ‘both nuclear and non-nuclear nations. …

Huge Trade agreements worth $45 bn with China are going to facilitate the creation of employment for 235,000 Americans The previous visit of Chinese leaders produced results that benefited US companies ranging from manufacturers of computer software and wind turbines to beef producers. The US side said that significant agreements had also been reached that should boost export sales by …

Seven years after the US pushed the leaderships of the Taliban out of Afghanistan and into Pakistan, an insurgency that includes these and other groups are gaining ground on both sides of the Pak-Afghan border. The classic Great Game period is generally regarded as running from the Russo-Persian Treaty of 1813 to the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907. A second phase …

The release by Wikileaks of hundreds of thousands of classified cables exchanged between the State Department and the US embassies abroad has predictably embarrassed both the individuals quoted in them, as well as the governments concerned. This duplicity has left many red faces all over the world with the target individuals and governments scrambling to clarify their positions to control …