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Connect Central Asia Initiative

Written on July 26th, 2012 in Editor's page by heidi

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By K.N. Pandita

Minister for External Affairs, M S Krishna is back from a short visit to Dushanbe the capital of the southern Central Asian State of Tajikistan.

Tajikistan holds a significant strategic place in Indian’s view of the world, despite its relatively small size (143,100 square kilometers) and population – 7.6 million. Its immediate borders are with Afghanistan, China, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, but they also run close to Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan (part of historical Jammu and Kashmir claimed by India) and Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (formerly North-West Frontier Province).  Continue Reading…

Role for the scion

Written on July 20th, 2012 in Editor's page by heidi

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By K.N. Pandita

Voting for India’s new President had hardly begun when the Congress Chairperson raked up the candidature of the scion of Gandhi-Nehru house for a “bigger” and “pro-active” role in the “party” and the “governance”.  Minimum complimentary words were exchanged between the mother and the son on the subject, one giving and the other taking.   Continue Reading…

The Afghanistan factor

Written on July 10th, 2012 in Editor's page by heidi

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By K.N. Pandita

Representatives of 70 countries met in Tokyo to deliberate on the crucial question of peace and reconstruction in two-decade long ravaged country of Afghanistan. This country shot into world news when in 1979 the then Soviet Union, pursuing the cold war strategy, marched its troops into landlocked Afghanistan to militarily support a pro-leftist regime of Dr. Najibullah in Kabul against dubious moves of American spy agency trying to destabilize him. A little known and less talked about backward Afghanistan was dragged into the vortex of international rivalry and strategy for no fault of hers.   Continue Reading…