Mainstream Weekly

Beneficial Outcome of Enhanced Participation in SCO

Mansoor Ali — 2014-10-06T07:13:31Z

In more than a decade of its existence, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has proved itself as an effective inter-state association. The mechanisms established for collaboration allow the institution and coordination of joint constructive efforts in different fields. Several countries and global organisations have displayed their increasing interest in cooperating with the SCO in various formats. All these facts indicate that the SCO is becoming a significant factor in regional as (…)

- 2014

US Obduracy in Syrian Crisis

Mansoor Ali — 2013-10-26T18:38:28Z

Some politicians in Europe, the US and countries of the Persian Gulf have concluded that the UN experts' report about the use of chemical weapons in Syria, published on September 16, was evidence of the Syrian authorities having used sarin gas against civilians in the suburbs of Damascus. It is true, the experts have confirmed the fact that chemical weapons were indeed used in the country but they didn't reach any definite conclusion about the origin of the payloads. The payloads could have (…)

- 2013

Vital Contours of Moscow- Delhi Cooperation

Mansoor Ali — 2012-10-24T11:18:38Z

Political analysts are of the view that India and Russia today have several concurring interests. Besides the systematic growth of bilateral relations—that have registered a steady development since the mid-fifties of the last century—both countries are committed to ease tensions in the Asia-Pacific region while ensuring the effective functioning of security systems. In this connection, against the backdrop of conflict situations involving the US, China, Japan and both Koreas, the (…)

- 2012

Indo-Russian Cooperation in Industrial Modernisation

Mansoor Ali — 2012-07-26T22:28:07Z

Mutual cooperation between Russia and India in the business sector and the participation of Russia in India's modernisation programme will help benefit Indian business to enter the prospective Customs Union market. The market possesses high potential for industry (more than US $ 65 billion), energy (over 100 billion barrels of oil and about 450 billion cubic metres of gas) and agriculture (the volume of agricultural production being to the tune of US $ 12 billion) thus ensuring high (…)

- 2012

How do we Tackle the China-threat to India?

Mansoor Ali — 2011-10-19T18:59:37Z

Currently trilateral and quadrilateral dialo-gues in the Asia-Pacific region have become quite fashionable. Such dialogues are being actively encouraged by the US and its time-tested reliable satellites like Japan. The next step is to evolve an Axis of Democracy which Washington aggressively promotes and seeks to translate into reality. It is an undeniable fact of life that thanks to the US propaganda machine a sizeable section of the Indian strategic community has voluntarily joined the (…)

- 2011

Afghanistan: Need for Decisive, Collective Action

Mansoor Ali — 2011-09-28T20:05:44Z

One basic aspect of the international approach to Afghanistan has been the tendency to devise strategy, take decisions and organise ground operations in a way that the Afghans perceive to be disrespectful towards them and even on occasions smacking of arrogance. At times they also take legitimate offence at the manner in which their country was being treated—their feeling of Afghanistan being regarded as a no-man's land and not a sovereign state is not without basis. It is this perceived (…)

- 2011

Regional Implications of Russian President's Forthcoming Visit

Mansoor Ali — 2010-12-12T01:34:17Z

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is visiting India in the second half of this month following French President Nicolas Sarkozy's trip to New Delhi. The visit assume significance not only as yet another milestone in further enhancing the time-tested Indo-Russian cooperation, but in the context of the worsening situation in Afghanistan in particular; the threat of a Taliban takeover of Kabul is quite potent at this juncture and, according to keen observers and experts of the South West Asian (…)

- 2010

US in Afghanistan: A Catch-22 Situation

Mansoor Ali — 2010-11-10T15:03:07Z

The US strategy in Afghanistan is “unsustai-nable”, writes Nicholas D. Kristof in the New York Times. Why? Because, as he opines, “it is inadvertently financing its adversaries” while simultaneously “backing a corrupt government that drives people to the Taliban”—a kind of double-edged sword. In a way it reflects a lack of policy on the part of the Americans to meet the enormous challenge that the country (which has never been under alien domination and can never be subdued if past history (…)

- 2010

Washington's Strategy in the Context of Afghan Elections

Mansoor Ali — 2010-09-28T10:54:04Z

The hard reality in Kabul today is that Washington is averse to the emergence of a strong leader in the Afghan capital enjoying an independent power base.
This was quite evident from the US' overdrive to tear apart President Hamid Karzai's front with the Northern Alliance groups against the backdrop of the September 18 parliamentary elections in the South West Asian state. At the other end Karzai's approach has been different: he is interested in working out a genuine reconciliation with (…)

- 2010

Karzai's Move in Afghan Parliamentary Poll

Mansoor Ali — 2010-06-20T11:41:41Z

From the beginning of this year President Hamid Karzai has been pursuing an active policy of preparing for the parliamentary elections in Afghanistan with the objective of bringing the Pathan majority to power. At the same time the Karzai policy aims at weakening the mujahideen influence in the country. For that purpose he is insisting on the approval of a law wherein the members of the Election Commission come under the control of the President's office alone. The relevant Bill was (…)

- 2010

Mainstream Weekly

Beneficial Outcome of Enhanced Participation in SCO

US Obduracy in Syrian Crisis

Vital Contours of Moscow- Delhi Cooperation

Indo-Russian Cooperation in Industrial Modernisation

How do we Tackle the China-threat to India?

Afghanistan: Need for Decisive, Collective Action

Regional Implications of Russian President's Forthcoming Visit

US in Afghanistan: A Catch-22 Situation

Washington's Strategy in the Context of Afghan Elections

Karzai's Move in Afghan Parliamentary Poll

Vital Contours of Moscow- Delhi Cooperation