It hardly matters where you look. There are the nearly million-and-a-half weapons that the Pentagon shipped to war-torn Iraq and Afghanistan. As a recent study shows, it evidently lost complete track of hundreds of thousands of them, many of which seem to have simply gone on the open market in …
By Ajai Shukla Over the last decade India has made the US its biggest arms suppliers, contracting for $14-15 billion (Rs 93,000-100,000 crore) worth of American weaponry. Yet many US platforms bought have turned out to be less than cutting-edge, after New Delhi’s unwillingness to sign what Washington labels a …
BY ISHRAT HUSAIN THE US has recently decided to cut both military and economic aid to Pakistan sharply, which is a welcome move for both countries. The US has domestic political imperatives and its foreign policy priorities are changing. Pakistan has to get out of the vastly exaggerated, but perceptually well-entrenched, …
Summary By Lauren Goodrich Sept. 4 marks Russia’s Day of Solidarity, a remembrance of two brutal terrorist incidents: the start of an apartment bombing campaign in 1999 and the bloody end of a siege at a Beslan school in 2004. Much as the 9/11 attacks changed the national psyche of the …
Robots in Isaac Asimov’s science fiction classic I, Robot are capable of independent thought, judgment, and action. His story begins when one overrides a direct verbal instruction and saves the life of an imperiled adult instead of an ostensibly doomed child. Some would find that choice morally reprehensible, and others …
Pakistan remains critical to US counter terrorism efforts, nuclear nonproliferation, regional stability, the peace process in Afghanistan, and regional economic integration and development, argues the Obama administration while explaining why Washington needs to stay engaged with Islamabad. “The United States therefore has a deep interest in a stable, democratic and …
By Ajai Shukla On Wednesday, wrapping up his three-day visit to the US, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar flew from Washington to Philadelphia to visit Boeing’s rotorcraft facility, where India’s Chinook helicopters will be built, starting next year. Business Standard visited the Philadelphia unit ahead of that visit. Parrikar was taken …
Foreign policy blues THE INDIAN EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER SUSHMA SWARAJ FLANKED BY JOHN KERRY SNUBBED ISLAMABAD BY RULING OUT ANY DIALOGUE WITH PAKISTAN UNLESS IT TAKES STEPS ON THE PATHANKOT TERROR ATTACK While the opposition’s putsch against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over Panamagate is now in full swing, internationally and …
STATES TIMES By Asif Haroon Raja Dynamics of World Global Politics After the 2nd World War, USA and Soviet Union emerged as two super powers and the two rivals got locked in a Cold War for next 46 years. Bi-polarism had its own flaws but to some extent it suited …
Looking closer Coming in the backdrop of phenomenal economic progress of China, and the global economic recession of 2008, the Belt and Road initiative of the Chinese President Xi Jin Ping is aimed at building a trade and infrastructure network connecting all of Asia with Europe and Africa along ancient …