Getting Saudi Arabia to take responsibility for Pakistan’s actions is in India’s interests
At a recent conference in Abu Dhabi on emerging powers and the Middle East, one of the arguments I made was that a stable Afghanistan requires a balance of two distinct sets of powers—India-Iran-Russia on the one hand, and China-Pakistan-Saudi Arabia on the [...]
…was a prudent and astute move by New Delhi
Rebiya Kadeer is indeed a remarkable woman. In recent weeks—not least due to China’s propaganda campaign to demonise her—she has emerged internationally as the best known symbol of Uighur separatism in China’s Xinjiang province. She has unequivocally advocated a non-violent political struggle, claimed that she is inspired [...]
Selective outrage
In his piece on the readiness with which people come out on the streets to protest against Israel, Mark Steyn writes:
Only Israel attracts an intellectually respectable movement querying its very existence. For the purposes of comparison, let’s take a state that came into existence at the exact same time as the Zionist Entity, and [...]
The sole might have been size 10. But the man who wore it was size zero.
The uncouth Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at President Bush during a press conference in Baghdad last week is now being lionised in many Islamic countries. (The Taliban have announced that they will intercede to secure his release from Iraqi [...]
India should signal its willingness to play mediator between the two antagonists
It is heartening to see that K Subrahmanyam believes that India could offer to become a mediator between the United States and Iran.
The North Koreans used a nuclear test and nuclear weapon making effort successfully to deter threats of externally induced forcible regime change [...]
Watch out for the Big Bad Row
The IAEA submitted its latest report on Iran’s nuclear programme to its board of governors on 26th May. (via V Anantha Nageswaran). The report points out that Iran has been operating its assembly of 3000 IR-1 centrifuges at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant with greater efficiency and is in [...]
What would you do if A Q Khan wrote to you?
Bashar Assad, Syria’s president, told a German newspaper that he rebuffed a Pakistani offer to sell him nuclear technology in 2001. Like Saddam Hussein before him, he too suspected a ’sting’ operation.
Q:Does Syria have contacts to atomic engineers of Pakistan?
Assad: Actual was it like that: [...]
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