A global conflict between the United States and China is already underway in the virtual world of cyberspace, a noted American think-tank has said.
Republicans seem to have dealt a huge blow to India-bound United States President Barack Obama in the mid-term polls, as they captured control of the House of Representatives on Tuesday. But will this play on his mind while he visits India?
Former Central Intelligence Agency South Asia analyst, Lisa Curtis, now a Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, recalled how in 1995, when she served in Islamabad as a diplomat, the Pakistan-based terror groups that were funded, armed and supported by the Inter-Services Intelligence specifically to launch attacks in Kashmir against Indian security forces, also had strong links to the Taliban.
American Senator John McCain, ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee and erstwhile presidential nominee, has said he is aware that the Obama administration is working very hard to help resolve the Kashmir imbroglio, sans any US mediation of the issue between India and Pakistan.
Curtis, who was the lead panellist at a conference at The Brookings Institution titled, The US-India Nuclear Agreement: Expectations and Consequences,' said, "During the Bush Administration, US officials broke the habit of viewing India solely through the India-Pakistan lens. Washington developed a greater appreciation for the Indian democratic miracle and viewed our shared democratic principles as the bedrock for a broader strategic partnership."
While the Pentagon has asserted that the US is "comfortable" over the safety and security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons arsenal and Islamabad has rubbished a report that militants attacked its nuclear facilities at least three times, an erstwhile CIA analyst has argued that what should elicit more concern among the international community is terrorists in Pakistan acquiring material for a "dirty bomb".
An expert on South Asian affairs has said that the US can pursue, support and encourage Pakistan in its transition from tolerating to fighting the various militant groups on its territory, with the help of four policies.
Just what do actors *do* the whole day?
India figured prominently in a leading Washington think-tank's recently simulated energy crisis, which brought together leading energy and regional experts from across the United States, to examine the likely response of various countries to a major terrorist attack on energy distribution and production facilities in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
"We saw this when they to tried scuttle at the last minute, the civil nuclear deal at the Nuclear Supplier Group meeting last year and so that was sort of an indication that China is not completely comfortable with India's rise on the world stage," said Lisa Curtis of the Heritage Foundation.
The overall freedom to start, operate, and close a business remains restricted by India's regulatory environment.
Congress party's chief spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi has met Pentagon officials in an apparent exercise to apprise the United States leadership about the status of the stalled Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement. Singhvi is also due to address the World Affairs Council and The Heritage Foundation, the United States India Business Alliance said, while praising the Congress for sending a 'legal expert' like Singhvi.
Asking the Obama Administration and Congress to increase the cap of H-1B work visas, popular among Indian professionals, from the present 65,000 to 195,000 per annum, two eminent scholars from a US think tank have said such a move would help stimulate economic growth and generate tax revenue.
The Heritage Foundation -- the leading conservative think tank in Washington, DC, with close links to the Republican leadership in Congress -- has warned lawmakers against torpedoing the US-India civilian nuclear agreement.
US think tank Lisa Curtis talks about the Pakistan polls and its aftermath.
Non-Resident Indians for a Secular and Harmonious India, along with three other organisations of NRIs, have asked the New York Times to disown the remarks made against Congress President Sonia Gandhi in a full page advertisement by the Gandhi Heritage Foundation on Saturday. In a letter sent to the editors of the paper, the organisations said that the advertisement was not only in 'extremely poor taste' but also 'misleading and offensive'.
Henry Kissinger once said, 'It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.' India will have to wait and see, observes Rajeev Srinivasan.
Rejecting some critics' argument as to what message the US was sending to Iran by signing a nuclear energy deal with India, Burns said, "We don't see the connection between what Iran is doing and what India seeks to do."
The awards were given in recognition of the 'tireless work' in projecting a positive image of the Sikhs
Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri said the United States is already playing a role in pushing both India and Pakistan to evolve a solution for the Kashmir problem.
Hong Kong was ranked the freest economy in the world for the 10th consecutive year in the '2004 Index of Economic Freedom' released on Friday by the Washington-based think tank The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal.
'It's a very tough situation. We're talking to India. We're talking to China. They've got a big problem there'
Asserting that the Indian security forces have exercised highest degree of restrain in Jammu and Kashmir after August 5, the external affairs minister told a Washington audience that he expects Pakistan to continue what it has been doing for the past several decades.
One Congressmen said the Uri terror attack along with the bombings in New York and New Jersey "demonstrate our need to continue to work together through our" counter-terrorism partnership to defeat terrorism.
BWith a distracted president brooding in the White House, Pompeo seems to think his day has come. He seems to be pushing a personal agenda before a target audience in America, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'The US President is joining the Prime Minister in addressing a huge Indian diaspora event in Houston and they will also meet on the margins of the UNGA in New York'
Thapar currently holds the position of US District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
References to Balochistan, Gilgit and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir by Prime Minister Narendra Modi signals a change in India's Pakistan policy, top American experts on South Asia have said as they sought more clarity on New Delhi's new approach towards disturbed areas in Pakistan.
The strategic alliance between China and Pakistan is primarily driven by their rivalry with India, eminent US experts have said, with one of them expressing concern over Sino-India border tensions.
The diplomat spoke on condition of anonymity to give a sense of the feeling of other members of the Security Council after China blocked the move to designate Azhar a global terrorist. Beijing previously put a technical hold on similar proposals at the UNSC thrice.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and her American counterpart Mike Pompeo have agreed to reschedule the postponed '2+2 dialogue'.
He said the US will apply other punitive measures if Tehran does not give up its reported goal of developing nuclear weapons.
"Japan will participate in MALABAR this year which is our largest bilateral naval exercise with India and it's scheduled to take place at the end of this month," Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia Amy Searight told lawmakers during a Congressional hearing on Thursday.
Within 24 hours over the weekend, two major terrorist attacks by Islamist extremists occurred in different parts of the world. In Kenya, military forces are still fighting terrorists holed up in a shopping mall in Nairobi, where nearly 60 civilians already have been killed. In Pakistan, over 80 were killed in a dual suicide bomb attack following a Sunday morning church service in the northwest city of Peshawar.
A former top envoy of the country questioned Pakistan's decades-old Kashmir policy.
Since the US and India broadly share similar interests in Sri Lanka, they should coordinate closely to ensure that the country preserves its democratic institutions, says Lisa Curtis
The Obama administration has christened his vision of Indo-US ties that has overcome the "hesitations of history" and working for the betterment of the global good as "Modi Doctrine".
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