Main Elements of US Foreign Policy Towards Asia B.Raman As President Obama nears the end of his first term and gets ready to seek a second term, he has sought to give a new focus to the US foreign policy towards Asia. 2.This new focus is marked by two characteristics.Firstly, an open and uninhibited expression [...]
Saigon 1975, Kabul 2012: Will Pakistan Be Ultimate Beneficiary? B.Raman The situation in Kabul should pose increasing concerns not only to the US and Afghanistan, but also India. The steady weakening of the security situation in the Afghan capital a year before the US Presidential elections is reminiscent of the weakening of the security situation [...]
Islamic states get Western economic aid despite mass hatred towards non-Muslims Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times In the modern world you still have nations which support killing all apostates and of course all these nations are based on Islamic Sharia law. Despite this the liberal mantra and stealth jihadists keep on telling [...]
Sri Lankan Tamils: A Disconcerting Situation For India B.RAMAN My attention has been drawn to a disturbing documentary titled “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields” produced by Mr.Jon Snow of the Channel4 TV channel of the UK. 2.The documentary highlights the results of a forensic investigation into the bloody culmination phase of the counter-insurgency operations [...]
China’s Guantanamo Bay For Buddhist Monks of Kirti B.RAMAN All right-thinking persons of the world have spoken for a decade against the military detention centre set up by the US in the Guantanamo Bay area of Cuba for detaining and interrogating all Al Qaeda suspects arrested in different parts of the [...]
PLA: The Barometer of US-China Relations B.RAMAN The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China is the barometer of US-China relations. When anything negative happens, it has greater impact on the military-military relations between the two countries than on the economic relations. While the PLA rules out the danger of any global military [...]
US-Pakistan Counter-Terrorism Cooperation: The Ritual & The Reality International Terrorism Monitor —PAPER NO.723 B.RAMAN Secret commitments by both the political and military leaderships to co-operate with the US in counter-terrorism, ritual denial of such commitments in public statements, dragging the feet in the implementation of the commitments and fresh [...]
All Eyes on Gilani’s Visit to China B.RAMAN All eyes in Pakistan are on the four-day visit to China from May 17,2011, by Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani. The dates of the visit were finalized some weeks ago to enable him to participate in the year-long observance of the 60th anniversary of [...]
Osama Bin Laden: An Intelligence Failure & not just an ISI Failure, Claims ISI Chief INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR–PAPER NO.719 B.RAMAN The success of Osama bin Laden in evading detection and arrest by the Pakistani security agencies for nearly six years since 2005 when he lived in a house near the Pakistan Military [...]
Pakistan after Osama Bin Laden: Quo Vadis B.RAMAN A wave of skepticism and anger in Pakistan has greeted the clandestine raid by US naval commandoes into the place of residence of Osama bin Laden at Abbottabad, near Islamabad, on the night between May 1 and 2, which resulted in his death. The skepticism has [...]
