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161. Iran: blocking the embargo
August 17, 2012
NO COMMENT: Senior Indian government officials, including Economic Affairs Secretary R Gopalan, said they were busy or did not wish to speak about the issue of gold payments to Iran As the West tightens its squeeze on Iran, India and China have emerged as the two Asian giants effectively h...
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162. Pakistan's push for bombs
August 17, 2012
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has vented his frustration at Pakistan's determined opposition to a treaty that would limit fissile material production for use in nuclear weapons. For three years, Pakistan has single-handedly — and successfully — blocked the Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva...
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163. The eagle flies east
August 17, 2012
The Eagle and the Dragon are set for a year of competitive interacti on which could set the agenda for the next decade. Few expected the rise of China to be shrugged off in Washington but even fewer saw the diplomatic and military arm-wrestling beginning in earnest so quickly or with such ominous ...
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164. Afghanistan's US-Taliban stalemate: echoes of Vietnam?
August 17, 2012
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta recently suggested that the United States could wrap up combat operations in Afghanistan by the end of 2013, well before the longstanding 2014 deadline, when full control is to be ceded to Kabul. Troops would remain in Afghanistan until 2014, as agreed upon at the 2...
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165. Indian heirlooms go under the hammer
August 15, 2012
The pending sale in London of a mirror diamond necklace (estimated value £20 million) is a reminder of the splendours of India's luxurious past that was once the envy of the world.
At the heart of the necklace being auctioned this April by Bonhams is a 28-carat table diamond, one of the larg...
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166. New self-assurance for regional parties
August 15, 2012
It is too early to talk about the shape of the next Lok Sabha in 2014 on the basis of the verdicts on recent state elections, although they do reflect the mood of the electorate. But the obvious lesson to learn from these verdicts is that the national parties are losing ground to the states, which r...
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167. Tide turns against Ahamdinejad and Netanyahu
August 15, 2012
The spectacle might have been straight out of prime minister's questions in the House of Commons, but from all the turbaned heads there was no doubting that this was Tehran and the leader being roasted by his fellow politicians was President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad.
The scourge of the Middle Eas...
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168. Fuel for thought: Asia's energy challenges
August 15, 2012
India's Finance Minister Mr. Pranab Mukherjee presented the Government's annual budget to the country's Parliament on March 16, at a time when the ruling Congress Party, just a week earlier, had suffered serious reverses in elections to the State Assemblies. Apart from widespread allegations of corr...
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169. India votes with West against Sri Lanka
August 15, 2012
All foreign policy is domestic. On March 22, India's beleaguered government proved how valid that old aphorism is. It did so by voting, under intense domestic political pressure, against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) in Geneva. At issue was a United States-sponsored...
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170. Pakistan: on the horns of a dilemma
August 15, 2012
On Saturday 10 March 2012, The Democracy Forum hosted a day-long seminar at the London School of Economics, entitled 'Pakistan: on the horns of a dilemma'. Based on the recent BBC documentary 'Secret Pakistan' — which alleges that, despite its public role as America's ally, Pakistan is involved in t...
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