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Given the addition of Pakistanis at senior leader levels in al-Qaeda, there may well be a continued growing focus on the insurgency in Pakistan and possibly on striking foreign targets in India.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will soon have an important meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington, one that will largely focus on U.S. drone strikes.
The Pakistani leader will seek changes in the bilateral relationship during his Washington visit. If Obama makes no concessions, U.S. interests in South Asia could be in jeopardy.
The Indian economy has entered a difficult period over the past eighteen months. Economists are asking whether India’s rapid growth of the last decade was more a credit-fueled aberration, rather than a result of structural reforms.
Afghanistan’s presidential campaign season is officially open and, thus far, the lead-up to next year’s election has offered no sign that lessons from 2009 have been learned.
Unless Delhi brings greater clarity to the interpretation of the nuclear liability act and the regulations for its implementation, India's hopes of building an advanced nuclear power industry at home and exporting nuclear reactors and services around the world will come to naught.
The global financial crisis has heightened fears about integration with global markets. For a country like India, an important task of policymaking is to identify the path of this integration.
The Bharatiya Janata Party promised to promote law and order in Gujarat when they came to power in 1998, but the situation only seems to have deteriorated.
Earlier this month, India’s opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced that Narendra Modi would be its prime ministerial candidate in the 2014 national elections.
Indian Finance Minister Chidambaram discussed India’s economic future and his government’s plans to restore rapid growth.