'Washington knows that it ultimately has to depend on the Pakistani army.'
The G-8 summit provides a useful window seat for Dr Singh to assess the intensity of the 'new Cold War'.
'Pakistan's judiciary has faced assaults in varying degree at one time or the other from virtually all successive governments.'
'To belittle the general, to chastise him like an errant school boy -- that was the last thing on Cheney's mind.'
India disregards Washington's propaganda that Iran is a terrorist state that is threatening regimes in neighbouring countries.
What is unfolding in the Gulf and the Middle East is nothing short of a remaking of that region in geopolitical terms. The Iran nuclear issue is a mere smokescreen.
With several main players staying away, the aid conference on Afghanistan is turning out to be like Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark.
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