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US: Increased Focus and Growing Pressure on Pakistan
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - While President Barack Obama’s announcement last week that he will "surge" 30,000 more U.S. troops into Afghanistan has received all of the attention here over the past week, Pakistan appears to be looming larger than ever in Washington’s strategic calculations and concerns.
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INDIA: Mumbai Attacks One Year Later
Analysis by Neeta Lal
NEW DELHI - "A bullet whizzed past us smashing the window to smithereens! My terrorised daughter slid under the nearest table. Everybody ran helter-skelter to save their lives. Just then three menacing-looking youths dressed in black exploded into the wedding hall, brandishing AK-47s. They started shooting indiscriminately, and soon our wedding venue was transformed into a battleground for dead bodies."
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INDIA/PAKISTAN: A Fresh Approach to Peace
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - If the leaders of India and Pakistan were looking for out-of-the-box solutions to their long-standing dispute over Kashmir and the related issue of cross-border terrorism, they could hardly have done better than the joint statement they released this week after their meeting at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
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POLITICS-INDIA: Waiting to Hear Clinton on AfPak, China
Analysis by Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - It is hard to say whether U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will find herself being quizzed more on Washington's 'AfPak' strategy to contain global terror or her appeasement of a financially muscular China, when she lands in India mid-July.
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PAKISTAN/INDIA: Citizens Push for Peace
By Beena Sarwar
KARACHI - The months following last year's Mumbai terror attacks have seen a renewed sense of urgency among peace activists in Pakistan and India. Citizens are pushing their governments to resume the composite dialogue process between the two nuclear-rival nations.
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INDIA: Calls for Troop Reduction Follow Rape, Murder in Kashmir
By Athar Parvaiz
SRINAGAR - The alleged rape and murder of two women by Indian troops in the remote Shopian district of Kashmir state has triggered renewed calls for demilitarisation of the Indian part of Kashmir, with street protests running for close to a month now.
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POLITICS: India Takes Security Concerns to Shanghai Summit
By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit at Yekaterinburg Tuesday appears to have been motivated chiefly by the security environment in the region shaping up around Washington’s ‘AfPak’ policy.
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RIGHTS-INDIA: Moves to Scrap Hated Security Laws in Kashmir
By Athar Parvaiz
SRINAGAR - As political parties in Indian Kashmir debate the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in the insurgency-hit state, civil rights activists hope that this will fructify into a withdrawal of the sweeping powers given to armed forces in this state since 1990.
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INDIA/PAKISTAN: Trade, Travel Across Divided Kashmir Stalled
By Athar Parvaiz
SRINAGAR - Trade and travel between the Indian and Pakistan parts of Kashmir, as part of confidence building measures (CBMs) between the two rival countries, appear to have become a casualty of the Nov. 26-29 terror attacks on the port city of Mumbai.
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INDIA/PAKISTAN: Signs of a Thaw
Analysis by Praful Bidwai
NEW DELHI - A week after Islamabad admitted that the plot to carry out the Nov. 26-29 attacks on Mumbai was partially planned in Pakistan, and that Pakistani nationals were among the assailants, there are tentative signs that the strained relations between the two neighbours may be thawing.
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INDIA/PAKISTAN: New Beginning Uncertain - Top Analysts
By Peter Dhondt
BRUSSELS - Almost three months after the terrorist attacks on India’s commercial hub of Mumbai, which soured relations between India and Pakistan, the prospect for renewed cooperation between the nuclear-armed neighbours looks dim, two eminent analysts from the region conceded at a policy dialogue here.
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PAKISTAN/INDIA: Taliban As Common Enemy
Analysis by Beena Sarwar
KARACHI - Since being elected to office five months ago, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has often declared that Pakistan’s single biggest challenge stems from ‘religious’ militants.
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INDIA/PAKISTAN: Peaceful Pink Panties to Tame Right-Wing Goons
By Beena Sarwar
KARACHI - Outraged by an attack by right-wing Hindu militants on women emerging from a pub in Mangalore, Karnataka state, activists in India have initiated a ‘Pink Chaddi’ (underwear) campaign in which they are sending pink panties to members of the Sri Ram Sena (Army of Lord Ram) on Valentines’ Day.
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India and Pakistan have fought four wars since gaining independence from colonial rule and undergoing partition in 1947. The hostility is embodied in the conflict over the state of Jammu and Kashmir. After the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, which left 180 dead, the tension has escalated. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accused Pakistan of supporting the terrorists; and Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik admitted they were partly plotted in Pakistan. But not all is about what both governments say or do, civil society also plays a role.