Any change in law or policy needs to be tackled in a holistic manner. However, in modern day and age, there are parallel legal systems in place in every nation – owing to a colossal lobbying within political quarters even spurred by economic compulsions – one for civilians and another for armed forces. That it’s [...]
India’s Armed Forces Dodge Change In Rape Laws – OpEd
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The End Of The Shale Era: Big Shift In Junior Oil Exploration – Interview With Chris Cooper
By.James Stafford The oil and gas game can be a tricky one for junior companies, but if played right the pay-off can be massive. At a time when juniors are risking a lot in volatile venues in the Middle East and Africa, Canada’s Aroway Energy (ARW) is planting its feet firmly in homeland soil and [...]
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India: War Preparedness Hit By Policy Paralysis Of Defence Ministry – Analysis
By Dr Subhash Kapila Introductory Observations India’s war preparedness against The China Threat and The Pakistan Threat is getting hit on two major counts. The de-emphasising of these two major threats by India’s policy establishment causes grievous harm to India’s security in more ways than one as reflected in my recent Papers on this site. [...]
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Heightening Geo-Energy Global Rivalry In Indian Ocean Region And Policy Options For Pakistan – Analysis
By Umm-e- Habiba The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world’s oceans. It is surrounded by Iran, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh to the North; Malay Peninsula, Sunda Islands of Indonesia, and Australia to the East; Antarctica to the South; and Arabian Peninsula and Africa and to the West. In the southwest it joins the Atlantic, and to the East and Southeast its waters [...]
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Gwadar And China’s Search For A Maritime Lebensraum – Analysis
By Vijay Shankar The end of the Cold War brought in its wake prognostication of the emergence of one world in which harmony, democracy, an end to conflict and of man’s ideological evolution with the grand formulation that western liberal democracy had prevailed (Fukuyama, 1989: 4, 18). Some saw a multi polar order and the [...]
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Afghanistan Peace Talks: London Calling – Analysis
Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari were in London on 03 February 2013 for a trilateral summit meeting with the British Prime Minister David Cameron. The focus of the talks were on cross-border security, the Afghan peace process including reconciliation efforts with the Taliban and more bluntly, the options available to [...]
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Behind China’s “Grain Miracle”: More Than Meets The Eye? – Analysis
China reports remarkable increase in grain production every year. Besides concerns over the reliability of its statistics, China’s “miraculous” grain production growth may not be sustainable. By Zhang Hongzhou ACCORDING TO China’s official statistics the country’s grain production last year amounted to nearly 590 million tonnes, the ninth consecutive year of increase in its grain [...]
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Shi’a End Protests After Suspects Arrested In Quetta Bombing
(RFE/RL) — Shi’a in southwestern Pakistan have agreed to end three days of protests after the government took action against militants responsible for a bombing targeting their religious minority that killed 89 people. Earlier, Pakistani officials announced that security forces had launched an operation in the Quetta area against Lashkar-e Jhangvi, the banned group responsible [...]
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Macedonia Opposition Chief Still Hopes For Solution
By Sinisa Jakov Marusic The head of the opposition Social Democrats says there is still time to defuse Macedonia’s political crisis and avert an opposition boycott of the March local elections. If the Macedonian government shows some goodwill, there is still time to solve the crisis in the country, the head of the opposition Social [...]
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The End Of The Lagumdzija-Komsic Affair, And The Future Of The Federation – Analysis
Manipulation of electoral loopholes and political disenfranchising of an entire ethnic group – Bosnia’s Croats – has further complicated efforts to reconcile the collective rights of ethnic groups with the rights of the individual. By Gordon N. Bardos For most of the past century, the fundamental challenge confronting attempts to create democratic multiethnic states in southeastern [...]
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Sri Lanka: UN Rights Council Should Launch Inquiry, Says HRW
At its March 2013 session, the United Nations Human Rights Council should authorize an independent, international investigation into war crimes committed during the final months of Sri Lanka’s armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to council members today. Since the council adopted a resolution on Sri Lanka at its March 2012 session [...]
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Canada: RCMP Closes Ranks On Abuse
Reported comments by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Commissioner Bob Paulson show the need for an independent civilian mechanism to investigate police abuses, Human Rights Watch said. In an email late last week discussing the Human Rights Watch report on police mistreatment of indigenous women and girls in northern British Columbia, Paulson reportedly told officers [...]
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Iran Claims BBC Hosts “Anti-Revolutionary” Network
The Iranian Intelligence Ministry released a statement on Tuesday February 19 referring to the “discovery of a media network” that, according to the ministry, is based inside BBC News and is linked to several Iranian reformist websites, such as Jaras and Kaleme. Iranian media report that the announcement indicates that recently detained journalists have been [...]
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North Korea Threatens ‘Final Destruction’ Of South Korea At UN
North Korea threatened South Korea with “final destruction” during a debate at the U.N Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday, and warned that it could take “second and third steps” after a nuclear test last week. “As the saying goes a new born puppy knows no fear of a tiger. South Korea’s erratic behaviour would only [...]
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Tunisian PM Jebali Quits
Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali resigned on Tuesday after his attempt to form a government of technocrats and end a political crisis failed. “I vowed that if my initiative did not succeed, I would resign and … I have already done so,” Jebali told a news conference after meeting with President Moncef Marzouki. Jebali had [...]
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President Obama Accepts Allen’s Request For Retirement
President Barack Obama today accepted a request by Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen to retire from the military to address health issues within his family. In a written statement, Obama said he spoke with Allen today and expressed deep personal appreciation for his “extraordinary service” in command of coalition and U.S. forces in Afghanistan [...]
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Mali: More Than 20 Islamist Rebels Killed
More than 20 Islamist rebels were killed during a raid by French special forces and Malian troops in the Adrar des Ifoghas mountain range of Mali, the defense ministry said on Tuesday, Feb 19. The raid, during which one French legionnaire was killed, aimed at ‘disrupting terrorist groups and dismantling their camps’ in an area [...]
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Sri Lanka: Desire To Silence Outspoken Journalists Seen In Murder Attempt
Reporters Without Borders and its partner organization, Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka, firmly condemn an attempt to murder Sunday Leader journalist Faraz Shaukatally on the night February 15, when he was shot and wounded by gunmen inside his Colombo home. Doctors say his life is no longer in danger. “This appalling shooting suggests that [...]
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Israel Heading Toward Apartheid, Say Many Israelis – OpEd
The Washington Post‘s Jennifer Ruben quotes the Free Beacon, which quotes an email which says that in a speech delivered at Rutgers University in 2010, Chuck Hagel “basically said that Israel … was risking becoming an apartheid state if it didn’t allow the Palestinians to form a state.” “Does this fundamentally shift the playing field?” [...]
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Tunisia Boils Over – Analysis
By Rob Prince Once again, Tunisians’ anger has overcome their fear. Spurred by a political assassination, tens of thousands have taken to the streets to protest the state into which their country has fallen. The same sense of decency and dignity that propelled them to the streets before drives them on now. The euphoria that [...]
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