India was earlier aligned with the USSR, while Pakistan had the backing of the USA – the superior world power – and China, the strongest regional player. Now, India as a bigger
Fire.
Like onion and garlic
Will be sold someday
From pushcarts.
– Parmananda Shrivastava in Aag
Malaysia has recently been spending a small fortune on multimedia campaigns to project itself as
Salman Haidar, former Foreign Secretary of India The international situation at this time is extremely conducive for India and Pakistan to resolve their differences. Nobody is playing heed anymore to
Talat Hussain, director, News and Current Affairs, Aaj TV Let's look at the fundamental factors influencing Pakistan's outlook, primarily towards India and generally towards the rest
Shahid Siddiqui, MP and General Secretary, Samajwadi Party I wish to place emphasis on some issues that have not been highlighted in the past, and realities which we have been
Bharat Bhushan, editor, Delhi, The Telegraph Let us look at some internal factors. Does internal electoral compulsion affect India-Pakistan relations in India? Certainly it does, and it should. Because in
6th PANOS-HIMAL SOUTHASIAN ROUNDTABLE
29-30 OCTOBER 2007, SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA
PARTICIPANTS
RESOURCE PERSONS
A G Noorani, columnist
Shamshad Ahmad, former foreign secretary of Pakistan
EDITORS
Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal, editor of
Aitzaz Ahsan, former Interior Minister, the Pakistan People's Party The pain of the Partition has left a legacy. There also persists in some quarters a fairly widespread fragility
Since May 2002, five gatekeepers' roundtables have been held on the India-Pakistan engagement, organised by Panos South Asia and Himal Southasian. These started with the understanding that rapprochement between
It is early morning in Kushinagar District of Uttar Pradesh when we arrive at the small village of Puraina. Driving through lush green fields of wheat, maize and sugarcane, the
After six decades of controversy and 18 years of heightened conflict since the Kashmiri intifada began in 1989, Kashmir is a changed place. Forget the stereotype of a man dressed
Reports of the cold-blooded killing of civilians by security forces in Jammu & Kashmir, the Northeast and Chhattisgarh, in the name of combat operations against insurgents or Maoist guerrillas, grabbed
