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Signals of shift: real of fake?

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By K.N. Pandita

Indo-Pak watchers speak of a shift of sorts in their current relations. Nobody is certain about the reason or the purpose of the shift if any. Nevertheless, the proposition merits analysis.

In some sections of press reports have appeared of India and Pakistan almost converging on an agreement of enforcing  a ten-year moratorium on Kashmir issue to allow sentiments return to equilibrium and the dust and din settle down after which a new effort in changed circumstances would be made to forge a final settlement of the issue. In other words put.

If that is a proposal on which some sort of agreement could take place, then the possibility of Kashmir issue still remaining there with its present dimensions is unrealistic. We are living in a century of fast changes, like it or not.  Continue Reading…

India and Mongolia: Strategic Partnership

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By K.N. Pandita

Strategic partnership is generally interpreted in parameters of defence collaboration and joint military action against a common adversary if and when warranted by circumstances. The question is should Indo-Mongolian strategic partnership be looked at strictly from the perspective of this interpretation?

The two countries have taken some preliminary steps in the direction of defence cooperation, first step taken in January 2001. The process graduated and ramified into Joint Working Group on Defence Cooperation, exchange visits of top military brass from either side with Indian Chief of Army Staff General V.K. Singh making two trips to Ulaanbaatar. Joint military exercises, though at virtual symbolic nature, have also been held on Indian as well as Mongolian soil; India’s participation in Khaan Quest 2006 included.   Continue Reading…

Rot gone deep in the UPA

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By K.N. Pandita

Two judgments of the Supreme Court coming in quick succession last week have put UPA government to embarrassment. Add to it the row over Salman Rushdie’s aborted participation in literary meet in Jaipur that exposed Congress’ feigned secularist stunt in the background of elections to the state legislature in UP.

In the 2G Spectrum scam, the UPA government tried to shield former Telecom Minister A Raja. For nearly a year and half, the PMO delayed permission to the prosecution of the dismissed minister in the hope that the culprit would manage to wriggle out somehow.   Continue Reading…