Posted on 31 October 2010. Tags: Afghan, Asia, Barack Obama, Brookings Institution, India, Pakistan, People's Liberation Army, United States
US President Barack Obama’s arrival in India next weekend will be an important marker in the rapidly evolving ties between the two countries, which have more shared interests today than at any other time in the past. But can they break new ground on complex issues of the day, like the new clout that China [...]
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Posted on 31 October 2010. Tags: Barack Obama, India, Indian Armed Forces, Kashmir, Non-Aligned Movement, Obama Administration, Pakistan, United State
Image via Wikipedia President Barack Obama is expected to visit India this November. Finishing touches to the tour itinerary are in motion, while spin doctors on both sides are weaving yarns about the fruits to be reaped by both; indeed, the US and India have entered this conjugal tie willingly as consenting partners. America is [...]
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Posted on 31 October 2010. Tags: Asia, Asia-Pacific, Barack Obama, India, Obama Administration, United Nations resolution, United Nations Security Council, United States
President Obama’s visit to India needs not be over-emphasized. The Bush administration’s strategic policy towards Asia-Pacific was critically pegged on an assumed alliance between the US and India. Then, the US was unquestioned and sole superpower of the world – a power that was apparently on a hunting spree for strategic locations, minerals, and energy [...]
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Posted on 31 October 2010. Tags: European Union, Islam, Liaquat Ali Khan, Muslim world, Ottoman Empire, Pakistan, Turkey, Ummah, United States, Western world
Recently, the Prime Ministers of Turkey and Pakistan ‘vowed’ for joint efforts to face international and regional challenges. This is a dream that every Muslim has and nurtures. If memory serves right, the idea of Muslim unity politically was attributed to Liaquat Ali Khan, the first PM of Pakistan. Ideologically, the concept of Ummah is [...]
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Posted on 31 October 2010. Tags: 2008 Mumbai attacks, Ajmal Kasab, Asia, Asif Ali Zardari, Geo TV, Jang Group, Jang Group of Newspapers, Karachi, Karachi Press Club, Pakistan
The war of words between the PPPP and the Jang Group is escalating by the Nano-Second. First the PPPP boycotted the network and when Sherry Rehamn wittingly or unwittingly defied the ban, she got suspended from the party. Then PEMRA announced that the VOA airing on GEO was illegal. Now there are charges of tax [...]
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Posted on 31 October 2010. Tags: Aviation Industry Corporation of China, Beijing, China, China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition, Government of the People's Republic of China, Guangdong, Little Eagle, Zhuhai
BEIJING, Oct. 15: — China‘s aircraft-making giant, Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), said Friday it would showcase two types of China-made aircraft — Seagull 300 and Little Eagle-500 — at the upcoming Airshow China 2010 in Zhuhai city, Guangdong province, next month. China Aviation Industry General Aircraft Co., Ltd. (AVICGA), an AVIC subsidiary company [...]
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Posted on 31 October 2010. Tags: Barack Obama, Bruce Riedel, Delhi, India, Kashmir, Manmohan Singh, Pakistan, President of the United States, Richard Holbrooke, Saudi Arabia, Times of India, United State
Image via Wikipedia President Obama’s trip to Delhi is being disguised as an opportunity for US businesses to take advantage of the Bharati economy. Let us look at the reality. Bharat‘s GDP is smaller than the GDP of Benelux Countries. What Bharat’s GDP is divided by one billion people it takes it to African Sub-Saharan [...]
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Posted on 31 October 2010. Tags: Afghan, Kabul, Pakistan, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Taliban, United Arab Emirates, United States
Image via Wikipedia Saudi Arabia seen edging cautiously into Afghan talks Riyadh wants Afghans to show seriousness in talks first Doesn’t want to put reputation at risk by backing a peace project that may not work RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is being drawn into efforts to reach a settlement to the Afghan war, despite its reluctance [...]
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Posted on 30 October 2010. Tags: Asif Ali Zardari, Bret Stephens, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Taliban, The Wall Street Journal, United States
Image via Wikipedia NEW YORK – President Asif Ali Zardari has “aided the US military effort in a way his predecessor Pervez Musharraf, supposedly a pro-American strongman, never did,” The Wall Street Journal said in an article that urges the Obama administration to make good on its aid commitment to Pakistan. “Mr. Zardari’s government has [...]
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Posted on 30 October 2010. Tags: Barack Obama, C. Fred Bergsten, European Union, India, Obama, Peterson Institute for International Economics, United Nations Security Council, United States, Washington Post
Obama‘s “goal is to strengthen India-US cooperation, but standing between the recent heady past and a future full of promise is a highly problematic present,” wrote C. Fred Bergsten and Arvind Subramanian, director and senior fellow, respectively, at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “The dilemma for the two governments is how to keep the [...]
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Posted in Current Affairs, India CA, Politics, US CA, US Int Rel.