Why Bodo Violence Continues to Recur?
The Bodo areas in Assam are witnessing bloodshed once again. The National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Songbijit faction) [NDFB-S] is alleged to have targeted the Adivasi settlers in the two …
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Rising Ukraine IDPs: Need for urgent international help
While the world remains engrossed in the debates triggered by Western sanctions on Russia over Ukraine and the countersanctions, a serious humanitarian crisis is building up in Ukraine and the …
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Flight QZ850: Rescue efforts intensify to locate missing plane
It’s turning out to be a bleak year for Malaysia-affiliated airlines as an AirAsia jet carrying 162 people disappeared after its pilot did not get permission to fly higher to avoid bad weather during a flight from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore on December 28.
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It’s been a year of Looking East as well as Acting East for India. India’s diplomatic and economic engagement with Southeast Asian and East Asian countries experienced a marked upswing …
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James J. Kilpatrick: Ask how and why
Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a …
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Inez Kelley: Be ready for many red marks
Dear Aspiring Writer, you are not ready. Stop. Put that finished story away and start another one. In a month, go back and look at the first story. RE-EDIT it. …
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Why does TTP target Pakistani State?
Much has been written about Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which is accused of the savage attack on the Peshawar school children on December 16, 2014. But only a few of the …
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Can Pakistan take on the Taliban?
The December 16 killings of over 130 school children in Peshawar by terrorists was generally described as the 9/11 moment of Pakistan, a moment in which the Nation is shaken to its core and resolves to strike at the enemy with all its might. Even by the annals of terrorist killings in Pakistan, this was by far the most gruesome and barbaric incident. And it called for the most resolute response.
What then was the response of the Pakistan government? The Prime Minister of Pakistan called for an all-party meeting. The Army Chief flew to Kabul, seeking a meeting with the President of Afghanistan, apparently to seek extradition of Mullah Fazlullah, the head of Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) that claimed responsibility for the massacre of the children. How would Gen. Raheel Sheriff respond if President Ashraf Ghani demanded the reciprocal handing over of Mullah Omar or Haqqani from the sanctuaries of North Waziristan?
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All options open in Jammu and Kashmir: BJP
Amid frenzied speculation in the wake of a hung assembly in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP has said that all options are open, including the party forming the next government …
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Peshawar Massacre and the Afghan Endgame
Washington, Beijing, Moscow and now Kabul are convinced that Islamabad is serious about quelling terrorism this time around. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is said to have been apprised by the …
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