C O M M E N T A R Y
The Pakistani trap
Manmohan Singh is being set-up by Islamabad, and the Congress leadership must gently extricate him from the Pakistan dialogue, writes N.V.Subramanian.
8 February 2010: It is now becoming apparent that prime minister Manmohan Singh is almost alone among his senior cabinet colleagues who is pushing for a dialogue with
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Snatching defeat...
There's nothing to be gained by talking to Pakistan at this juncture, and everything to lose, argues N.V.Subramanian.
5 February 2010: There may be said to be three real and one mythical factor behind any decision to commence a dialogue with Pakistan. But dialogue won't end Pakistani
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O T H E R C O M M E N T A R I E S
No dialogue
3 February 2010: The newspapers suggest that P.Chidambaram will attend the end-of-the-month SAARC home ministers' meeting in Pakistan. So far,
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Act up
1 February 2010: Post the London conference on Afghanistan, it may be too late to resurrect the lost cause of fighting the Al-Qaeda/ Afghan Taliban/
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Terrible uncertainty
29 January 2010: For India, this is the moment of truth in Afghanistan. The
Afghanistan conference hosted in London has disregarded Indian
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Durable relations
27 January 2010: Whilst to the good, it is not clear how long the Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina government's decision to outlaw religion from politics
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Perilous liberalism
25 January 2010: It is perhaps too early to find fault with the tasking of the new national security advisor (NSA), Shiv Shankar
Menon, but
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Punish Australia
22 January 2010: The inescapable conclusion is that the attacks on Indian students in Australia are race-related. The Australian high commissioner
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PM & his NSA
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